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.

The Fun of It

Author: Amelia Earhart
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897337859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others.

Amelia Earhart

Author: Doris L. Rich
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1560987251
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.

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.

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 . . .

Still Missing

Author: Susan Ware
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393312553
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
An analysis of Amelia Earhart's life as part of the history of women and American feminism.

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.

Amelia Lost

Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0307980219
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart. In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's life (from childhood up until her last flight) and the exhaustive search for her and her missing plane. With incredible photos, maps, and handwritten notes from Amelia herself—plus informative sidebars tackling everything from the history of flight to what Amelia liked to eat while flying (tomato soup)—this unique nonfiction title is tailor-made for middle graders. Amelia Lost received four starred reviews and Best Book of the Year accolades from School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Horn Book Magazine, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.

Amelia Earhart

Author: Lori Van Pelt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765310620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was the best-known female aviator of her time. She set altitude records, speed records, and transcontinental flight records. Earhart championed the efforts of women in aviation. In 1937, she attempted to fly around the world but, just days before her fortieth birthday, vanished, together with navigator Fred Noonan, in the Pacific en route to tiny Howland Island. Searches continue, and the new technologies being employed may eventually solve the mystery.

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.