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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume unpaged : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"An exploratory journey through the airport."--
Follow a family and the youngest member's favorite sock monkey through all the inner and outer workings of an airport. In a book that is as intriguing as it is useful and entertaining, we follow a family on its way through the complexities of a modern-day airport. From checking bags and watching them disappear on the mysterious conveyor belt, to security clearance and a seemingly endless wait at the...
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text introduces air travel, from the airport to the flight deck, with information about how planes fly, safety rules, in-flight entertainment, and air traffic control.
4) Turbulence
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stunning, virtuosic novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world.' --amazon.com.
Twelve flights, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha. Passengers and crew, en route to see lovers or estranged siblings, aging parents, baby grandchildren, or nobody at all. Along the way, they experience...
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
[c2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text describes the many sounds associated with an airplane flight and what they mean. Includes a section with more facts about airplanes.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Shares the experiences of the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, who were hosts to the more than six thousand passengers of thirty-eight U.S.-bound jetliners forced to land there in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
Author
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Raggedy Ann and Andy accompany Marcella on an airplane trip to visit her grandmother, they are placed in the baggage compartment, where they play with a teddy bear they meet.
11) Fly high, Katie!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie is flying to Florida to visit her grandmother, but she has never been on an airplane before.
12) Flightplan
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possibility that...
13) I'm so excited!
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A mechanical failure on a plane flying to Mexico City is endangering the lives of the passengers aboard. As the pilots attempt to fix the error, the attendants attempt to assist the passengers, and the passengers have a catharsis of emotion that helps them escape the idea of death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
On a routine trip from London to New York in the 1970s, Trans-Ocean flight 33 experiences mysterious acceleration and weird atmospheric phenomena that transport the passengers and crew far beyond their destination.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The groundbreaking female pilot featured in the hit Broadway musical Come from Away tells her story in this high-flying and inspiring picture-book autobiography! When Beverley Bass was a young girl in the late 1950s, she told her parents she wanted to fly planes--and they told her that girls couldn't be pilots. Still, they encouraged her, and brought her to a nearby airport to watch the planes take off and land. After decades of refusing to take...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The tragic story of the British airship R101--which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later--has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half...
17) On this airplane
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"On this airplane...Someone travels solo, two travel as one, three return and four set out. In this simple and moving book, a young family takes a plane to their new home. While onboard, they encounter all the people you meet on a plane: a bookworm, a businessperson, tourists, crying babies and daydreamers...all with their own stories, all heading somewhere special." -- Inside front cover
19) Flight or fright
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
485 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
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