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Robert Burleigh is the award-winning author of many books for children, including, Hoops , a SLJ Best Book of the Year and a Booklist Editor's Choice, Lookin' for Bird in the Big City which received the New York Society Library Award for the best children's book of the year, and ... read more
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“The plane swoops like a swallow over dark puddles and patches of tundra. The shore gleams in the waning light. The waves are curls of cream-colored froth.The plane ascends, high and higher, as the pounding surf turns noiseless below. Amelia Earhart lives for this moment: to follow the wide horizon that never ends!”
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“What she has seen from above! Mountains like wrinkles in the earth, cities like toy blocks, cars like ants, and the blue Pacific glittering into mist.”
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“Two thousand and twenty-six miles. Fourteen hours and fifty-six minutes. Alone. A great peace wells up.She knows she has crossed something more than an ocean.”
First Sentence edit
From high in the cockpit, a woman gazes down. It is exactly 7:12 p.m. The sunset ripples over the rough-hewn airfield. Good-bye, my friends, good-bye! Amelia Earhart pushes her last doubts into a secret place deep inside her.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert Burleigh (Author)
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, a Paula Wiseman Book
Country: US
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1416967330
Page Count: 32
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, a Paula Wiseman Book
Country: US
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1416967330
Page Count: 32
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 629.13091631
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