air pilots

An account of Amelia Earhart's dangerous 1932 flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland, in which she survived bad weather and a malfunctioning airplane. Includes a brief biography of the aviator.

An introduction to one of America's most famous pilots, who mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while flying over the Pacific Ocean.

Beginning reader biography of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, who helped develop many records in early aviation.

Chronicles the life of pilot Amelia Earhart, discussing her sense of adventure, struggles to promote women's rights, numerous accomplishments, and mysterious disappearance.

Discusses the life of the determined African woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921.

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

In 1969 Houston, Texas, thirteen-year-old Scott learns to fly from his father, an Air Force flight instructor, but when NASA needs him for a secret space mission, Scott's elation is tempered by concern that his mother, who has moved to Florida, will find out.

Presents the story of the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, from her childhood until her final flight in 1937.

During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.