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408428
Amelia Earhart is on the moon? [Wait! What?]by Gutman, Dan 

BTSB Prebound(Norton Young Readers, 2021)


Publication Date: 09/14/2021

BTSB #: 408428 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 8-11   
AR: 4.7 MG Lexile: 730 F&P: S

Subjects: Earhart, Amelia,|d1897-1937 Women air pilots - United States - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography


Summary: 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! Read some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the legendary pilot.


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408429
Amelia Earhart is on the moon? [Wait! What?]by Gutman, Dan 

Paperback(Norton Young Readers, 2021)


Publication Date: 09/14/2021

BTSB #: 408429 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 8-11   
AR: 4.7 MG F&P: S

Subjects: Earhart, Amelia,|d1897-1937 Women air pilots - United States - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography


Summary: 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.


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826995
American wings : Chicago's pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky by Smith, Sherri L. 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2024)


Publication Date: 01/16/2024

BTSB #: 826995 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/CAges: 12-14   
Lexile: 1210

Subjects: African American air pilots - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography Aeronautics - United States - History|y20th century United States - Race relations - History|y20th century


Summary: A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II.


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341209
Rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh by Fleming, Candace 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2020)


Publication Date: 02/11/2020

BTSB #: 341209 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 12-16   
AR: 7.3 UG Lexile: 980

Subjects: Lindbergh, Charles A.|q(Charles Augustus),|d1902-1974 Air pilots - United States - Biography


Summary: A riveting biography of one of America's most celebrated heroes, and most complicated, troubled men.


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244706
Segregated skies : David Harris's trailblazing journey to rise above racial barriers by Cottman, Michael H. 

BTSB Prebound(National Geographic, 2021)


Publication Date: 12/21/2021

BTSB #: 244706 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 9-12   


Subjects: Harris, David E.,|d1934- Air pilots - United States - Biography African American air pilots - Biography Race relations


Summary: Follows David Harris's turbulent path to become the first African American commercial airline pilot in the U.S., presented against the backdrop of racial tensions, protests, and the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s.


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Unlawful orders : a portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskeegee airman, surgeon, and activist by Binns, Barbara 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Focus, 2022)


Publication Date: 10/18/2022

BTSB #: 120214 Available

Dewey: 940.54/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 7.9 MG Lexile: 1090

Subjects: Williams, James,|d1919-2016 United States.|bArmy Air Forces.|bBombardment Group, 477th - Biography African American physicians - Illinois - Chicago - Biography Surgeons - Illinois - Chicago - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography World War, 1939-1945 African Americans - Social conditions|y20th century South Side (Chicago, Ill.) - Biography


Summary: The inspiring story of James Buchanan "JB" Williams who became a doctor, served as a medic in the US military and eventually joined the elite Tuskegee Airmen, where he fought to change the minds of all who believed Black men couldn't make good soldiers. After the war, his role as doctor and Civil Rights activist pushed past injustices placed on Black Americans.


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