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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Air and flight	Sally Hewitt	Discusses the properties of air, its necessity for life, environmental issues, and aerodynamics.	OL14295W
From ground to air with the Wright brothers	Deborah Hedstrom-Page	Becky, a teenager from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, who spends the winters working in the Wright brothers bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, witnesses the flight of the first engine-powered airship.	OL14866225W
Mayday!	Edward Packard	The reader determines the course of an adventure in which a copilot must fly a plane alone while coping with mechanical difficulties and inclement weather.	OL14990837W
Flying over Brooklyn	Myron Uhlberg	Lifted by the wind, a boy flies over snow-covered Brooklyn and admires its winter beauty. Includes information about the 1947 Brooklyn snowstorm, the greatest in its history.	OL15280724W
Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?	Eleanor Hudson	Elmo, who likes books, is suddenly transported away from them and Sesame Street while flying a kite.	OL15829677W
Willa Bean's cloud dreams	Cecilia Galante	Willa Bean, who wants to master flying before starting school at Cupid Academy, celebrates her unconventional looks and unique personality, but struggles to accept that cupids learn how to fly at dif…	OL15932769W
George flies south	James, Simon	George does not feel ready to learn to fly, leave his nest, and go south with the other birds, despite his mother's encouragement, but when a strong autumn wind gets hold of the nest, he may have no …	OL16296456W
A web of air (Fever Crumb #2)	Philip Reeve	In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or…	OL16527497W
Flight	Von Hardesty	Provides an overview of the principal stages in the history of flight, from animal flight and the first attempts to develop human flight to the present, and describes the invention of the various sys…	OL16554844W
Can one balloon make an elephant fly?	Dan Richards	Evan asks a simple question, “Can one balloon make an elephant fly?” At first, his mother is too busy to answer. But when she takes the time to play the game with her son…magic happens.	OL16636910W
Flyers	Jillian Powell	Depicts various objects that fly ranging from birds to arrows to the space shuttle.	OL1844811W
Nice and cozy	Bijou Le Tord	Tommy the pig wants to fly before he can find happiness with Sweet Martha.	OL1849809W
Flying high	Jørgen Stamp	Walter the giraffe builds an airplane, but when Sonny the turtle wants to accompany him on his maiden flight, Walter ignores his request.	OL18744046W
Darkwing	Kenneth Oppel,Keith Thompson	As the sun sets on the time of the dinosaurs, a new world is left in its wake. . . . DuskHe alone can fly and see in the dark, in a colony where being different means being shunned — or worse. As the…	OL19337W
The adventures of sparrowboy	J. Brian Pinkney	After an encounter with a sparrow, Henry finds he is able to fly just like his favorite comic book hero HawkMan.	OL1934553W
Da xiong hui tiao wu =	Bloom, Suzanne	Bear wishes he could fly. Goose is quite sure Bear will never get off the ground. But Fox has a few ideas. Can she teach him how? Both Goose and Fox are in for a big Bear surprise! These three friend…	OL19725290W
The strange and diverting story of the loblolly boy	James Norcliffe	The loblolly boy - a magical, Peter Pan-like creature - has the gift of flight, is invisible to most people, and has the power to exchange identities with anyone willing to do so. When the loblolly b…	OL20905051W
Airplanes	Kelli L. Hicks	"Can you imagine having to drive long distances in a car, train, or bus? Airplane travel changed all that, making travel much quicker, easier, and less stressful. This book addresses the four factors…	OL21206926W
Before the Wright brothers	Don Berliner	Describes the ideas and experiments that lead to the first powered flight by the 1903 "Wright Flyer."	OL2160701W
The story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly	Luis Sepúlveda	A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teach the chick to fly.	OL2225043W