Dangerous Skies

Author : Suzanne Fisher Staples
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466813571
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Skies written by Suzanne Fisher Staples and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2006-08-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Season of Change Along the Virginia shoreline where their families have lived for generations, Buck and Tunes Smith defy tradition. Raised together like brother and sister, they are bound by surname, but not by skin color. And just as Buck has come to rely on Tunes, Tunes has come to trust that even in a place where race can mean so much, their friendship will remain as dependable as the tides. But then the horrifying events of one spring afternoon tear them apart -- and change their world forever. Desperate to hang on to the thing that he values most, Buck struggles to uphold their friendship -- without realizing that his efforts are pushing Tunes farther and farther away. From a Newbury Honor -- winning author, this is a powerfully moving story of friendship in the face of racism, and betrayal in the name of loyalty.

Author : Arthur E. Clouston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dangerous Skies written by Arthur E. Clouston and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forfatteren beretter om sine oplevelser som testpilot ved Royal Aircraft Establishment i Farnborough samt om sin deltagelse i kapflyvninger.

Author : Suzanne Fisher Staples
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0307977889
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shabanu written by Suzanne Fisher Staples and published by Ember. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newbery Honor winner about a heroic Pakistani girl that The Boston Globe called “Remarkable . . . a riveting tour de force.” Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she’s dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her family’s honor—or listen to the stirrings of her own heart? A New York Times Notable Book “Staples has accomplished a small miracle in her touching and powerful story.” —The New York Times

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ISBN 13 : 9789990220650
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Skies written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn Mallory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772272192
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painted Skies written by Carolyn Mallory and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie and her friend, Oolipika learn about the northern lights.

Author : Charlie Cooper
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1610601211
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War in Pacific Skies written by Charlie Cooper and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-11-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paintings by the renowned aviation artist plus “lots of wartime photographs and plenty of entertaining and informative text. . . . absorbing reading” (Aviation History). Climb in to the cockpit of some of America’s most heralded warbirds, like the P-38 that carried Richard Bong to his forty kills, and fly along with Paul Tibitts in the Enola Gay as it makes its final approach on Hiroshima. This lavishly illustrated book covers the most famous air engagements in World War II’s Pacific Theater of Operation in an exquisite and beautiful fusion of art and history. Paintings by acclaimed aviation artist Jack Fellows are supplemented by color maps, previously unpublished photographs, original artwork, and personal accounts.

Author : Arthur E. Clouston
Publisher : Ayer Company Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780405121555
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dangerous Skies written by Arthur E. Clouston and published by Ayer Company Pub. This book was released on 1979-12-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Garbe
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1476501289
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Threatening Skies written by Suzanne Garbe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes several of the most dangerous weather events in recorded history"--

Author : Kenneth B. Johnson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526761572
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spy in the Sky written by Kenneth B. Johnson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An enjoyable ramble . . . the memoir of an unassuming, self-doubting aviator who, despite himself, proved to be pretty bloody good.” —Aircrew Book Review Many stories abound of the daring exploits of the RAF’s young fighter pilots defying the might of Hitler’s Luftwaffe, yet little has been written about the pilots who provided the key evidence that guided the RAF planners—the aerial photographers. Ken Johnson joined No.1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit as an eighteen-year-old. In this lighthearted reminiscence, he relives his training and transfer to an operational unit, but not the one he had expected. He had asked if he could fly Spitfires. He was granted that request, only to find himself joining a rare band of flyers who took to the skies alone, and who flew in broad daylight to photograph enemy installations with no radios and no armament. Unlike the fighter pilots who sought out enemy aircraft, the pilots of the PRU endeavored to avoid all contact; returning safely with their vital photographs was their sole objective. As well as flying in northern Europe, Ken Johnson was sent to North Africa, where his squadron became part of the United States Army Air Force North West African Photographic Wing (NAPRW). In this role, he flew across southern Europe, photographing targets in France and Italy. The Spy in the Sky fills a much-needed gap in the history of the RAF and, uniquely, the USAAF during the latter stages of the Second World War. “The sorties he flew are nothing less than heroic . . . his writing style is very good, and very humorous at that!” —Flyin’ and Ridin’ Blog

Author : Siobhan Carroll
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246780
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Empire of Air and Water written by Siobhan Carroll and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century.