[PDF] Who Was Amelia Earhart eBook

Author : Kate Boehm Jerome
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2002-11-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0448428563

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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.

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : 9780823415175

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

Author : Amelia Earhart
Publisher : Crown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307715930

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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.

Author : Doris L. Rich
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1588343820

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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.

Author : Jane Mendelsohn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307814203

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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 . . .

Author : Kathleen C. Winters
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0230112293

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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.

Author : Brad Meltzer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0525552936

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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.

Author : Mona Kerby
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 1992-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101174331

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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.

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2015-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781935628446

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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.

Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0307980219

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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.