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1) Planes go
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Describes the sounds of eight different kinds of airplanes.
3) Planes
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Planes follows Dusty Crophopper, a big-hearted, speed-loving crop duster who dreams of competing in the toughest and most exhilarating around-the-world air race in history. With the support of friends old and new, Dusty reaches heights he never dreamed possible and in the process, gives a world the inspiration to soar.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 12
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2004, c1989
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen and her friend Eric combine wits to solve the disappearance of a young French girl.
6) Flight 1-2-3
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A boy counts his way through the airport and onto the plane as it flies towards its destination.
8) Falling
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight." --
Author
Series
Publisher
North-South
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a country far away, a new invention--the mechanical mousetrap--has caused all the mice but one to flee to America. Now stranded in a dangerous country, the last mouse decides to build a plane and fly to the land of freedom.
10) Airborne
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Heather Lawrence's long-awaited vacation to Salzburg wasn't supposed to go like this. Mere hours into the transatlantic flight, the Houston FBI agent is awakened when passengers begin exhibiting horrific symptoms of an unknown infection. As the virus quickly spreads and dozens of passengers fall ill, Heather fears she's witnessing an epidemic similar to ones her estranged husband studies for a living-but this airborne contagion may have been deliberately...
Author
Series
Nick Flynn novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic Frontier, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn, after an American F-22 collides with a Russian interloper, is ordered to find a missing stealth bomber before the enemy and prevent a potential nuclear holocaust.
12) Hostage: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane...
13) Airplane
Author
Series
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With the help of sliding tabs and spinning wheels, babies and toddlers can take to the skies in an airplane filled with adorable animal characters on a special trip through the clouds.
15) Sin elección
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"Reina la exaltación en el primer vuelo sin escalas de Londres a Sídney. Se rumorea que en primera clase viajan algunos famosos, así que todo el mundo está pendiente del acontecimiento más importante en la historia de la aviación. Mina, una de las azafatas, trata de concentrarse en el trabajo para olvidar sus problemas personales. De pronto uno de los pasajeros sufre un ataque al corazón y muere. En la cartera del fallecido Mina encuentra una...
17) Moon plane
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A young boy looks at a plane in the sky and imagines flying one all the way to the moon.
18) Stealing air
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
Author
Series
Clorinda the cow books volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using determination and vision, Clorinda the cow and her friend Hop the pig build a variety of flying machines, hoping to fulfill her desire to take flight.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
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