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Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A picture book following the life of Fred Carmichael, the first Northern Indigenous commercial pilot. Fred spent 60 years as a pilot, doing everything from supply runs to search and rescue to transporting dog teams to far-flung areas. This book celebrates Fred's early dreams of flying and the things he later accomplished."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1987, when she inherits a piece of land, Emma finds a small plane in disrepair and her great uncle's journal that tells the story of Livy Jones, the woman who piloted his plane when he fell ill, and, with new purpose, works to secure Livy's place in the aviation hall of fame.
Author
Series
Cowboy brothers in arms volume 2
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Air Force test pilot Blue Donnelly has the greatest job in the world... until his F-22 crashes during a demonstration flight, leaving him with a busted body and a ton of guilt. Then horse whisperer Marin Galloway walks into his hospital room, snapping him out of self-pity with a shock of desire and some surprising news: her six-year-old ward thinks Blue is his daddy. Leo isn't really Blue's son, much as the little boy wishes it. Still, he needs a...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
""Yippee! We're going back to World War One!" said nobody ever -- except maybe the Hangman. When the Great War began in 1914, America had plans to stay out of it. But some young men were so eager to fight, they joined the French Foreign Legion. From deep in the mud and blood of the Western Front, these young volunteers looked to the sky and saw the future -- the airplane. The first American pilots to fight in World War One flew for the French military....
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