Who Was Amelia Earhart?

Author: Kate Boehm Jerome
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448428563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first woman to fly across the Pacific. From her early years to her mysterious 1937 disappearance while attempting a flight around the world, readers will find Amelia Earhart's life a fascinating story.

A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart

Author: David A. Adler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823415175
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This picture-book biography of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo who mysteriously disappeared, features full-color illustrations.

Last Flight

Author: Amelia Earhart
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307715930
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
Amelia Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time. Last Flight compiles the letters, diary entries and charts that she sent to her husband, G.P. Putnam at each stage of her trip. In her own words, these dispatches offer a window into her experience on this ground-breaking journey and illustrate her cheerful, charming nature. Her story continues to intrigue and inspire people to this day.

I Was Amelia Earhart

Author: Jane Mendelsohn
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307814203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . . There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas. There is the flight itself -- day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it"). And there is, miraculously, an island ("We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke"). And, most important, there is Noonan . . .

Amelia Earhart

Author: Doris L. Rich
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343820
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
She 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

Author: Kathleen C. Winters
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0230112293
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
When 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.

I am Unstoppable

Author: Brad Meltzer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525552936
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14

Book Description
The littlest readers can learn about Amelia Earhart in this board book version of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World biography. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great—the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. In this new board book format, the very youngest readers can learn about one of America's icons in the series's signature lively, conversational way. The short text focuses on drawing inspiration from these iconic heroes, and includes an interactive element and factual tidbits that young kids will be able to connect with. This volume tells the story of Amelia Earhart, the famous pilot.

All about Amelia Earhart

Author: Lew Freedman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935628446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Amelia Earhart was a pioneer pilot, an aviator who was the best known and most popular woman flyer of her time and someone who established many records in the early days of flight. Amelia was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, something that was looked at as being so bold that she received fame and honors for the accomplishment. During her life, Earhart was also a social worker, wrote best-selling books, helped design a line of clothing, worked as an educator, and in all her pursuits worked hard to promote the rights of girls and woman. She always encouraged women to take charge of their own lives, and never to be discouraged by the doubts of others.

Amelia Earhart

Author: Mona Kerby
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174331
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description
As 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.

Amelia Earhart

Author: W.C. Jameson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1589799917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
This well-researched book is a biography of the life—and disappearance—of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator who was the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic in 1928. But did Amelia’s plane really crash and sink in 1937, or was her fate entirely different?