Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic by Burleigh, Robert (9781416967330)

Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic

by Burleigh, Robert , Minor, Wendell

Hardcover - English

"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.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1416967338

EAN

9781416967330

Publisher

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Publication Date

22 Feb 2011

Pages

Age Group

5 to 8

Grades

K to 03

Weight (kg)

0.45

Dimensions (cm)

25.9 x 25.9 x 1.3

Lexile Level

500

Award(s)

Keystone to Reading Book Award - Nominee

About Author

Robert Burleigh is the award-winning author of many books for children, including "The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn", illustrated by Barry Blitt; "Night Flight", illustrated by Wendell Minor; and "Black Whiteness", illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop. His many other books include "Hoops"; "Stealing Home"; and "Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep!" He lives in Michigan.