Fly girls How five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
Large print - 2019
"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Large type books
- Published
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Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
2019.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Young readers' edition ; large print edition
- Physical Description
- 403 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-391) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781432866099
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