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Author
Series
Katharine Wright Mystery volume 01
Language
English
Description
December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
Author
Series
We were there books volume 28
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fictionalized account of the experiments and efforts of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The names Wilbur and Orville Wright stand out in history as the inventors of the airplane, but lost in history are those who in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth shared the same passion: to develop the first powered aircraft. Some spent entire lives and fortunes chasing the dream, including men like the embittered Augustus Herring, who'd flown a heavier than air machine for several seconds in 1898; the...
5) First flight
Author
Series
Timekeepers volume 01
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this adventure, the Timekeepers travel back to 1903 to prevent DeLay from interfering with the Wright brothers' first flight! Will they get the job done in time?--
8) The flyers
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1903, a group of children on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, dream of flying and witness the first flight of the Wright brothers. Includes a chronology of milestones in the history of flight.
Author
Series
Tall tails volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
As the beloved dog of the inventive Wright brothers, Angus gets an up-close view of all the designing, building, and testing of their flying creations as it happens, while getting a front row seat to the very first successful flight.
Author
Series
Secret Smithsonian adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After discovering that the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is much smaller, has no Spirit of St. Louis airplane or Apollo 11 command module, and is filled with balloons, blimps, and dirigibles, four schoolmates travel through time to try and restore the Wright brothers to their well-earned place in history and learn about aerodynamics and other aviation principles along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Ordered to practice his writing skills in the blank book his mother gave him, fourteen-year-old Johnny would rather go fishing near his home on North Carolina's Outer Banks and cannot think of anything important to write until two "dingbatters" from Ohio arrive in 1900 and try to build a flying machine.
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