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81) Defiant
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After a disturbing vision leads Rei to sacrifice herself in combat with Armisael, Kaworu takes the opportunity to get closer to his target. Shinji's anger and confusion at Kaworu's advances grow even darker when he learns the secret behind Rei's origin, a secret known only by Dr. Ritsuko Akagi
83) Red Birds
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart: His older brother, Ali, left for his first day of work at an American base and never returned; his parents...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Reclaiming one of the most important moments in American aviation history, this incredible, untold story recounts the transcontinental air race of October 1919, which riveted a nation as the aviators pioneered the first coast-to-coast air route, despite much drama and tragedy
86) Flygirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Captain Ava Capp has been flying from her past for a decade. She'd much rather leave it, and her home state, behind forever. But when she finds herself back in Minnesota, against her better judgement, everything goes sideways in a way she never expected it to. Medical examiner Dr. Tom Baker has never forgotten Ava and the cold case she ran away from. When she shows up unexpectedly in town, in spite of himself, sparks fly. Which is terrible because...
89) Fly
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Get ready to take off in an airplane! Ground crew, flight attendants, pilots, and tower control are all here to help you journey across the sky --
Author
Series
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Classic stories from Robert Munsch in an early reader format kids will love! Text has been adapted from the originals so beginner readers can proudly say "I read this myself!" Colorful and fun, Robert Munsch's zany stories and Michael Martchenko's illustrations will grab kids' attention and keep them interested as they practice their reading skills. Munsch Early Readers are packed with extras, including phonics introduction and activity, getting...
92) Tiger's claw
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific
93) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could...
94) Top gun
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground
Author
Series
Publisher
CurlyQ Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Experience a day in the life of Pilot Stacey and her nephew Little Harry as they take a flight aboard Crow-Flies Airline flight #6. You will learn, along with Little Harry, all about the inner workings of the airplane, and the many individual steps every pilot goes through before taking off and landing
Author
Series
Wings of glory volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helen Carlisle, a young war widow covers her pain with the frenzy of volunteer work until the spark of her romance with Lt. Raymond Novak, a WWII pilot, propels them both into peril
Author
Language
English
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Description
"On the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, and prepared to take off from a small airfield on Long Island, New York. Despite his inexperience--the twenty-five-year-old Lindbergh had never before flown over open water--he was determined to win the $25,000 Orteig Prize promised since 1919 to the first pilot to fly nonstop between New...
Author
Series
Cowboy brothers in arms volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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...
99) The Flight Girls
Author
Language
English
Description
"1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It's why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it's why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as treasured as the women she flies with. Then one fateful...
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