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Amelia Earhart #8
by Ann Hood Denis ZilberAnn Hood's "delightful" (NYT) historical series continues with one of America's great female heroes! Great-Uncle Thorne sends Maisie, Felix, and the Ziff twins on a dangerous trip back in time through The Treasure Chest and into the Congo to find Amy Pickworth, Thorne's missing aunt. When Maisie and Felix get separated from the twins, they use the magic of The Treasure Chest and find themselves in early twentieth-century Kansas with a young girl named Amelia Earhart. Every Treasure Chest book features a biography of the featured historical figure along with Ann's Favorite Facts from her research!
Amelia Earhart (Biographies)
by Erika L. ShoresHow much do you know about Amelia Earhart? Find out the facts you need to know about this female aviator. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American.
Amelia Earhart (Photo-Illustrated Biographies)
by Daniel Freeman Marilyn RosenthalA biography of the aviator and women's rights advocate Amelia Earhart, the first woman pilot to fly an airplane alone across the United States, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Amelia Earhart (Readers Bios)
by Caroline Crosson GilpinAmelia Earhart is one of the first of many National Geographic Readers that highlight important historical figures. This Level 1 Reader brings an understanding of Amelia Earhart's historical significance to a whole new audience. Young readers will learn about the fascinating life and legacy of this pioneering pilot and adventurer, whose disappearance over the Pacific in 1937 has intrigued audiences for decades (Level 1).
Amelia Earhart (Unsolved)
by Dinah WilliamsDiscover the unsolved mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance in this beautifully illustrated book for kids, accessible for all readers!Amelia Earhart is famous for being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. On July 2, 1937, while attempting to fly around the world, she vanished. Can someone just disappear? Decide for yourself with actual clues, facts, and photographs. This real unsolved mystery will unfold with simple text and exciting visuals.ABOUT THIS SERIES:Take a deep dive into some of the most unbelievable but real unsolved mysteries from history with this brand-new series of books. Can someone just disappear? Is there such a thing as a buried treasure? Does Bigfoot exist? Each book in this series focuses on one unsolved mystery and describes its main events chronologically. Readers will follow along as the exciting narrative uncovers real historical clues. Multiple theories will be presented providing an opportunity for readers to draw their own conclusions. The most up-to-date facts and relevant modern-day discoveries will be included to allow for real-world connections. Perhaps you will be the one to solve an unsolved mystery!
Amelia Earhart Is on the Moon? (Wait! What? #0)
by Dan GutmanFrom the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the hilarious biography series that casts fresh light on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Amelia Earhart loved heights so much she built a roller coaster in her backyard? Or that she used to race worms with her sister? Bet you didn’t know that she took photographs of garbage cans to pay for flying lessons! Siblings Paige and Turner do—and they’ve collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the legendary pilot, from her childhood in the rural Midwest and the spark of her passion for flying to her record-smashing flights and her infamous disappearance over the Pacific Ocean. Narrated by the two spirited siblings and animated by Allison Steinfeld’s upbeat illustrations, Amelia Earhart Is on the Moon? is an authoritative, accessible, and one-of-a-kind biography infused with Dan Gutman’s signature zany sense of humor.
Amelia Earhart and the Flying Chariot (Time Twisters)
by Steve Sheinkin“A historical home run!” —Dav Pilkey, bestselling author of Captain UnderpantsTwo kids must un-twist history after Amelia Earhart changes course in this hilarious Time Twisters chapter book by award-winning author Steve Sheinkin.WARNING: DO NOT BELIEVE THE STORY YOU’RE ABOUT TO READ.Well, you can believe some of it. There is some real history. But also hijinks. Time travel. And famous figures setting off on adventures that definitely never happened—till now. Time is getting twisted, and it’s up to two kids to straighten things out.Siblings Abby and Doc have been racing through time to fix history after Abraham Lincoln, Abigail Adams, and Neil Armstrong started popping up in the wrong places, at the wrong times. When Amelia Earhart accidentally lands her plane in Ancient Greece, Abby and Doc partner with Kyniska, the first woman to win the Olympics, to get Amelia back on track to finish her first solo flight across the Atlantic. Steve Sheinkin combines history, hilarity, and surprising twists in Amelia Earhart and the Flying Chariot. The Time Twisters series is a surefire hit with history buffs and reluctant readers alike!
Amelia Earhart's Final Flight (History's Mysteries)
by Megan Cooley PetersonOn June 1, 1937, famous pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off in their small plane. Earhart’s goal was to make a record-breaking flight around the world. On the last part of the flight, they approached Howland Island to refuel. Before they could land, radio communication from Earhart stopped, and the plane disappeared. Search efforts turned up few clues. What happened to Earhart and Noonan? Explore the theories and learn why their disappearance has become one of history’s greatest mysteries.
Amelia Earhart: A Biography
by Doris L. RichShe died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record--among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the "What Happened to Amelia Earhart?" myth by disclosing who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first.
Amelia Earhart: Courage in the Sky (Women of Our Time)
by Mona KerbyAs a child, Amelia Earhart wondered why there were no heroines in her favorite adventure stories. She resolved to change that when she grew up. And so she did, becoming one of the pioneers of aviation. Not only was Amelia the first woman in the world to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, she was the first person to cross it twice. Her life became a great adventure story--and a mystery, too. In 1937, on an around-the-world flight, Amelia disappeared. Today, Amelia's courage and spirit remain an inspiration to everyone who flies or dreams of adventure. This unique series about the lives of twentieth- century women "answers the constant need for more biographies of completeness and quality." -- American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists".
Amelia Earhart: Daring Women of History
by Mike RousselA pioneering aviator and advocate of women’s equality, Amelia Earhart was, and continues to be, an inspiration to people the world over. Her fierce determination to break records and push the boundaries of aviation led her to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, as well as the first person (man or woman) to fly solo the trans-Pacific flight from Hawaii to California in 1935. Not content to leave it at that, Amelia set her sights on becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the world, but her brave attempt was cut short when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished over the Pacific Ocean on the final stretch of the challenge in 1937. Eighty years on and our fascination with Amelia Earhart continues. Here, Mike Roussel charts her life and experiences, exploring the investigations and theories surrounding her mysterious disappearance and revealing the naturally courageous spirit that made her one of the most daring of twentieth-century women.
Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings
by Mary S. LovellWhen she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering aviator, and ambassador extraordinary for the United States. Married to a man with a genius for publicity, her life was crowded, demanding and adventurous. Mary S. Lovell's superb biography examines a legend to reveal the pressures and influences that drove Amelia, and shows how her life, career and manner of death foreshadowed the tragedies and excesses of a media-dominated age.
Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon
by Kathleen C. WintersWhen Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, she was at the height of her fame. Fascination with Earhart remains just as strong today, as her mysterious disappearance continues to inspire speculation. In this nuanced and often surprising biography, acclaimed aviation historian Kathleen C. Winters moves beyond the caricature of the spunky, precocious pilot to offer a more complex portrait. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, airline records, and other original research, this book reveals a flawed heroine who was frequently reckless and lacked basic navigation skills, but who was also a canny manipulator of mass media. Winters details how Earhart and her husband, publisher George Putnam, worked to establish her as an international icon, even as other spectacular pilots went unnoticed. Sympathetic yet unsentimental, this biography helps us to see Amelia Earhart with fresh eyes.
Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon
by Kathleen C. WintersWhen Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, she was at the height of her fame. Fascination with Earhart remains just as strong today, as her mysterious disappearance continues to inspire speculation. In this nuanced and often surprising biography, acclaimed aviation historian Kathleen C. Winters moves beyond the caricature of the spunky, precocious pilot to offer a more complex portrait. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, airline records, and other original research, this book reveals a flawed heroine who was frequently reckless and lacked basic navigation skills, but who was also a canny manipulator of mass media. Winters details how Earhart and her husband, publisher George Putnam, worked to establish her as an international icon, even as other spectacular pilots went unnoticed. Sympathetic yet unsentimental, this biography helps us to see Amelia Earhart with fresh eyes.
Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator
by Meryl Henderson Beatrice GormleyUsing simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Amelia Earhart. Illustrated throughout.
Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
by Beatrice GormleyWhat was Amelia Earhart like as a child and teenager? A fictionalized biography of the famous aviatrix.
Amelia Erroway: Castaway Commander: A Graphic Novel
by Betsy PeterschmidtBeing lost can sometimes be the first step toward finding your destiny.A Junior Library Guild SelectionForbidden to become a pilot by her overprotective father, Amelia Erroway yearns to command her own airship. To prove her worth, she sets off alone on her father's prized craft. But disaster strikes: A fierce storm crashes her ship in uncharted lands and Amelia, now a castaway, must use her wits to survive. With the help of Rastor and Fynley, brothers who live deep in the Juniper rainforest, Amelia is determined to repair her airship and, with her newly formed crew, fly home.
Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball (Amelia Fang #1)
by Laura Ellen AndersonA hilarious illustrated middle grade POB series for reluctant readers starring a vampire girl, Amelia Fang. Welcome to the world of Nocturnia, where darkness reigns supreme, glitter is terrifying, and unicorns are the stuff of nightmares!Amelia Fang would much rather hang out with her pet pumpkin Squashy and her friends Florence the yeti (DON'T CALL HER BEAST!) and Grimaldi the reaper than dance at her parents' annual Barbaric Ball.Then the King's spoiled son Tangine captures Squashy, Amelia and her friends must escape the party to plan a daring rescue! In their race against time, they begin to realize things in Nocturnia may not be quite what they seem...
Amelia Fang and the Memory Thief (Amelia Fang #3)
by Laura AndersonReaders graduating from the Princess in Black and Isadora Moon series will love the illustrated adventures of Amelia Fang, a sparkly little vampire girl in a dark and gloomy world! <P><P>Amelia and her friends are taking part in a competition to visit Pumpkin Paradise Park - the most bloodcurding theme park ever! <P><P>All they have to do is sell as many cookies as possible.But the creatures of Nocturnia have begun to act stranger than usual . . . no one can seem to remember anything - including their own names or even Amelia's big birthnight party! Where have everyone's memories gone? And how can Amelia save them when they have all forgotten who she is?
Amelia Fang and the Rainbow Rangers (Amelia Fang #4)
by Laura Ellen AndersonReaders graduating from the Princess in Black and Isadora Moon series will love the illustrated adventures of Amelia Fang, a sparkly little vampire girl in a dark and gloomy world! Amelia is going on a trip with her Rainbow Rangers troop (led by unicorns Ricky and Graham) to Sugarplum Island!But while exploring to earn their badges, Amelia and the gang stumble upon an ancient curse - and are shrunk to the size of bugs! How will they make the bloodcurdlingly BIG journey to break the curse when they are all so very TINY?
Amelia Fang and the Unicorns of Glitteropolis (Amelia Fang #2)
by Laura Ellen AndersonThe second book in a hilarious heavily illustrated middle-grade POB series for reluctant readers starring a vampire girl, Amelia Fang. Welcome to the world of Nocturnia, where darkness reigns supreme, glitter is terrifying, and unicorns are the stuff of nightmares!Amelia Fang and her friends love their dark and gloomy world of Nocturnia. But when Tangine's mom, Queen Fairyweather, goes missing, they must brave the journey to the terrifying Kingdom of the Light.With fairies and angel-kittens lurking around every corner, who can they trust? And will they finally uncover the real villain keeping the kingdoms of Light and Dark mortal enemies?
Amelia Gray Is Almost Okay
by Jessica BrodyWhen you can choose to be anyone, how do you know who you really are? From the author of Better You Than Me and I Speak Boy comes another fun and relatable book about new experiences and how staying true to yourself is the best way to be okay.Twelve-year-old Amelia Gray has changed schools thirty-nine times (!!!) because of her dad&’s job, which doesn&’t leave a lot of time for making friends. But that&’s okay. Amelia loves her &“life on the go&” with Dad and their adorable supermutt, Biscotti. She&’s been in enough middle schools to know that friendships are messy, and who needs that?But when her dad announces that he wants to stay in their new town for the whole summer—maybe even forever—Amelia realizes she&’s going to have to do the one thing she&’s never had to do: fit in.So she gives herself not one but three total makeovers, to try out a few personalities and hopefully find her &“thing.&” Is she Amie, a confident track star? Mellie, a serious journalist? Or Lia, a bold theater kid?Juggling three identities is hard, and Amelia soon finds herself caught in the kind of friendship drama she has always managed to avoid. Yet despite her best efforts, she still can&’t answer the most important question of all: Who is the real Amelia Gray?
Amelia Grey's Fireside Dreams
by Abby ClementsAmelia has a dream: toasting chestnuts by the fire with her husband Jack in their own cosy cottage. Their real life is another world--a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Hackney. But when life takes a surprising turn, removal vans are soon heading to the Kent countryside.They soon realize the cottage makeover is a far bigger project than they'd anticipated. On top of that, there's Amelia's newly loved-up mother and her half-sister, Mirabel, to contend with--pushing Amelia and Jack's marriage to breaking point.Amelia begins to strip back the wallpaper and fittings in the cottage and discovers the story of the cottage's previous owner--and a hidden secret. As Amelia's ideas about love and family change, will her fireside dream finally come true?
Amelia Jane Again!
by Enid BlytonAmelia Jane is big, bad and the terror of the toy cupboard! In this book, she gives the toys some terrible scares with her mischief and gets poor Teddy to carry her home without him knowing it. Sometimes the toys get their own back...