Race for the sky

By Dan Gutman

Subjects: Flight, History, Juvenile fiction, Diaries, North carolina, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Flight, fiction, Diaries, fiction, Wright, wilbur, 1867-1912, fiction

Description: Ordered to practice his writing skills in the blank book his mother gave him, fourteen-year-old Johnny would rather go fishing near his home on North Carolina's Outer Banks and cannot think of anything important to write until two "dingbatters" from Ohio arrive in 1900 and try to build a flying machine.