Full name: Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine

Author: Heather Lang Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Biographies, Picture books, Non Fiction, History, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781620916506 1620916509

On November 19, 1916, at 8:25 a.m., Ruth Law took off on a flight that aviation experts thought was doomed. She set off to fly nonstop from Chicago to New York City. Sitting at the controls of her small bi-plane, exposed to the elements, Law battled fierce winds and numbing cold. When her engine ran out of fuel, she glided for two miles and landed at Hornell, New York. Even though she fell short of her goal, she had broken the existing cross-country distance record. And with her plane refueled, she got back in the air and headed for New York City where crowds waited to greet her. In this well-researched, action-packed picture book, Heather Lang and Raul Colon recreate a thrilling moment in aviation history. Includes an afterword with archival photographs. Similar books: Swimming with Sharks by Heather Lang A Computer Called Katherine by Suzanne Slade Otis and Will Discover the Deep by Barb Rosenstock Mesmerized by Mara Rockliff Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark A Weed Is a Flower by Aliki The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky Marvelous Mattie by Emily Arnold McCully Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sis Electric Ben by Robert Byrd The Tree of Life by Peter Sis Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea by Robert Burleigh Ben Franklin's Big Splash by Barb Rosenstock Secret Engineer by Rachel Dougherty Of Numbers and Stars by D. Anne Love Mrs. Astor Regrets by Meryl Gordon What Color Is My World? by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield The Glorious Flight by Alice Provensen