Amelia Earhart

Famous Flyers highlights aviators who influenced popular culture during the early 1900s, World War I and II, and the Cold War. This series combines history and pleasure reading in a fast-paced narrative of the lives of some of the most famous, and infamous, aviators of the 20th century. On a misty morning in 1928, a plane appeared out of the clouds and landed in a small Welsh town. The plane had come from America, and on board was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic--a young pilot named Amelia Earhart.