Flying solo

By Julie Cummins

Subjects: Air pilots, juvenile literature, Juvenile literature, Women, biography, juvenile literature, Biography, Women, Women, united states, biography, Women air pilots, Air pilots

Description: In 1927, airplanes were a thrilling but dangerous novelty. Most people, men and women, believed that a woman belonged in the kitchen and not in a cockpit. Ruth Elder set out to prove them wrong by flying across the Atlantic Ocean.