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Dean, Kim

Summary: When Pete the Cat learns that the Wright Brother's flying machine can't fly without the wind, he and the cats invent the perfect solution, and he may get a chance to fly.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN DEA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DEA

Wood, Tracey Enerson

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Everyone knows of Orville and Wilbur, the famous Wright brothers who invented and piloted the first powered airplane. But how many have heard of their sister Katharine, a vital member of the team? It was Katharine kept the family businesses afloat, Katharine who secured financial backers for the project, Katharine who marketed their invention worldwide. While the brothers were brilliant...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2024

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Boyne, Walter J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOY

Flower, Amanda

Summary: "December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FLO

Flower, Amanda

Summary: December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FLO

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Davis, Lynn

Summary: "The Wright Brothers are famous for their role in the history of flight! Kids can read this book to find out more about the Wright Brothers and how they flew the first airplane. They will learn how the Wright Brothers started a bicycle shop first and how their first flight at Kitty Hawk went"--Publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 DAV

Hutchison, Patricia

Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the airplane. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 HUT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOM

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