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Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781416967330)
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x"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.
Author: Robert Burleigh
ISBN-10: 1416967338
ISBN-13: 9781416967330
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2011
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.20h x 10.20w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 143549 / Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Monarch Award - Nominee
Award: Delaware Diamonds Award - Nominee
Award: Keystone to Reading Book Award - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2011 pg. 136
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2010
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2011
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2011
Booklist 02/01/2011 pg. 68
School Library Journal 02/01/2011 pg. 94
"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.
Author: Robert Burleigh
ISBN-10: 1416967338
ISBN-13: 9781416967330
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2011
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.20h x 10.20w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 143549 / Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Monarch Award - Nominee
Award: Delaware Diamonds Award - Nominee
Award: Keystone to Reading Book Award - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2011 pg. 136
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2010
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2011
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2011
Booklist 02/01/2011 pg. 68
School Library Journal 02/01/2011 pg. 94
By Robert Burleigh
xRobert 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; Black Whiteness, illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop; and Sylvia's Bookshop, illustrated by Katy Wu. His many other books include Hoops; Stealing Home; and Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! He lives in Michigan. Wendell Minor has illustrated dozens of picture books, and his work has won countless awards and is in permanent collections of such institutions as the Museum of American Illustration and the Library of Congress. His cover illustrations have graced some of the most significant novels of our time by authors such as Toni Morrison, David McCullough, and James Michener. He lives in Washington, Connecticut. Visit him online at MinorArt.com.
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