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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Keith...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble ... [et al.]."--Back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to help the effort, female Russian air pilot Valka signs up to join an all-female aviation group, but as the war intensifies she has to decide how much she is willing to risk to defend the skies she calls home.
5) Flygirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
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