Skies Over Sweetwater
In 1944, eighteen-year-old Bernadette Thompson leaves her Iowa home and attends training camp for the Women Airforce Service Pilots in Sweetwater Texas, where she hones her flying skills and befriends women of different backgrounds.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, women air pilots [X], sweetwater (tex.), women airforce service pilots (u.s.), historical fiction [X], historical fiction
Code Name Verity
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 107
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
subjects: women air pilots [X], air pilots, world war, 1939-1945, friendship, nazis, great britain, france, espionage, national socialists, spies, insurgency, spy stories, historical fiction [X], historical fiction
Promise The Night
Explores the early life of Beryl Markham, who grew up on a farm in Kenya, and became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Wings
Cassie O'Malley, a determined young woman, fights the odds and becomes a world-renowned aviator.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: