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Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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In 1932, James Banning, along with his co-pilot Thomas Allen, make history by becoming the first African Americans to fly across the United States, relying on the generosity of people they meet in the towns along the way who help keep their "flying jalopy" going.
Author
Series
Space-time volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Jide and Petra are just two normal kids until they are selected to leave Earth and join their new alien classmates on an intergalactic research mission to Mars. Too bad Petra has no idea how she ended up in the program, seeing as the closest she wants to get to space is being a sci-fi writer. Jide, on the other hand, is the brains of the mission, but his helicopter parents make it clear he hasn't left their gravitational pull behind quite yet. What...
83) Aurora burning
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Aurora, the human trigger for an ancient weapon built to destroy a world-conquering power, and the members of the Aurora Legion must evade a variety of forces, all out to control her if she does not succeed in managing her new powers.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Merging space travel with a road trip, a father drives all over the solar system at 37mph in order to allow his children to view the conflicts of Earth's history in the rearview mirror. Whether it's only been the 78 years it takes to drive to Venus or the 8,000 it takes to get to Neptune, humans have been fighting each other for small pieces of space on our planet.
87) Some dogs do
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
When Sid tries to convince his doggy classmates that he flew to school, they do not believe him.
88) Tar beach
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.
89) Baby bird
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A bird falls out of his nest while trying to fly and has encounters with several animals before he finds success.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Emmy and Birch and their tame wolf Byte are new to the world of Minecraft but always ready to explore. This time, Birch wants to go flying more than anything. Emmy has an idea for getting the right materials but it is going to be an incredible journey.
Author
Language
English
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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.
93) Max
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Max, the young son of superheroes, is a late bloomer when it comes to flying, until he is inspired by the plight of a falling baby bird.
94) Moon plane
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young boy looks at a plane in the sky and imagines flying one all the way to the moon.
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