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English
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Description
"The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On the other, an audacious motorcycle racer whose innovative aircraft became synonymous in the public mind with death-defying stunts. For more than a decade, they...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
36 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Tom Tate meets Orville and Wilbur Wright and witnesses the invention of the airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
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The story of "the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly, Wilbur and Orville Wright"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Katharine Wright mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
v, 185 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1903, the Wright brothers made three brief flights, and no one was there to watch them. Six years later, Wilbur Wright traveled to Europe to evangelicize about aviation and raise money for patents--and the world got aviation fever. That summer, a group of champagne companies organized the first ever international air meet in Rheims, France. They knew they could throw a great party and sell a lot of champagne. They didn't know that this single...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
178 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ordered to practice his writing skills in the blank book his mother gave him, fourteen-year-old Johnny would rather go fishing near his home on North Carolina's Outer Banks and cannot think of anything important to write until two "dingbatters" from Ohio arrive in 1900 and try to build a flying machine.
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