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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Booklist Review     First Chapter Excerpts     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary       More by this author     O'Brien, Keith, 1973-     Subjects     Klingensmith, Florence Gunderson, 1904-1933.     Elder, Ruth, 1902-1977.     Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937.     Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960.     Thaden, Louise McPhetridge, 1905-1979.     Bendix Trophy Race (1936)     Airplane racing -- United States.     Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.     Air shows -- United States -- History.     Women air pilots.     Air shows.     Madison Choice Award Nonfiction Nominees 2019     United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      O'Brien, Keith, 1973-       by title:      Fly girls : how five...         MARC Display

Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history / Keith O'Brien. by O'Brien, Keith, 1973- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 2018. Subjects Klingensmith, Florence Gunderson, 1904-1933.   Elder, Ruth, 1902-1977.   Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937.   Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960.   Thaden, Louise McPhetridge, 1905-1979.   Bendix Trophy Race (1936)   Airplane racing -- United States.   Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.   Air shows -- United States -- History.   Women air pilots.   Air shows.   Madison Choice Award Nonfiction Nominees 2019   United States. Format:  No. of Holds for all sites :  0 Summary:  "Keith O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama housewife; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at the constraints of her blue blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the mother of two young kids who got her start selling coal in Wichita, Kansas. Together they fought for the chance to race against the men--and in 1936 one of them would triumph in the toughest race of all. Description:  xiv, 338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Madison Library District Non-fiction 629.13 O'Brien, Keith / Fly-Girls Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email Search Results to:

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