Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
Robert Burleigh$16.99
$19.99
"Hearts will be racing." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A work to inspire further learning." --Booklist (starred review)
"Vivid." --The Horn Book A picture book biography of the first woman in flight--Amelia Earhart--by NCTE Orbis Pictus Award-winner Robert Burleigh. Award-winning author Robert Burleigh has captured Amelia Earhart's first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932. She was only the second person to do this - and the first woman. Rich in detail, feeling and incident this is nonfiction with edge and action, a you-are-there experience made more dramatic and real by Wendell Minor's vivid paintings.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Published: 02/22/2011
ISBN: 9781416967330
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.20h x 10.20w x 0.50d
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Monarch Award - Nominee
Award: Delaware Diamonds Award - Nominee
Award: Keystone to Reading Book Award - Nominee
Review Citations: Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2011 pg. 136
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2010
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2011
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2011
Booklist 02/01/2011 pg. 68
School Library Journal 02/01/2011 pg. 94
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 143549 / Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
Reading Level: 3.5 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5
"A work to inspire further learning." --Booklist (starred review)
"Vivid." --The Horn Book A picture book biography of the first woman in flight--Amelia Earhart--by NCTE Orbis Pictus Award-winner Robert Burleigh. Award-winning author Robert Burleigh has captured Amelia Earhart's first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932. She was only the second person to do this - and the first woman. Rich in detail, feeling and incident this is nonfiction with edge and action, a you-are-there experience made more dramatic and real by Wendell Minor's vivid paintings.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Published: 02/22/2011
ISBN: 9781416967330
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.20h x 10.20w x 0.50d
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Monarch Award - Nominee
Award: Delaware Diamonds Award - Nominee
Award: Keystone to Reading Book Award - Nominee
Review Citations: Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2011 pg. 136
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2010
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2011
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2011
Booklist 02/01/2011 pg. 68
School Library Journal 02/01/2011 pg. 94
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 143549 / Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
Reading Level: 3.5 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5