Catalog Search Results
3) Turbulence
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When the first-ever commercial airline mutiny occurs on Meridian Flight 6 during an unscheduled emergency landing in Nigeria, NATO and the CIA believe that the plane has been hijacked by terrorists who are carrying a lethal chemical weapon.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Former FAA chief counsel and senior aviation policy official Mark Gerchick unravels the unseen forces and little-known facts that have reshaped our air travel experience since September 11, 2001. With wry humor and unique insight, Gerchick takes us past the jargon, technicalities, and all-is-well platitudes to expose the new normal of air travel: from the packed planes and myriad hassles of everyday flying to the alchemy of air fares, the airlines'...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When thirty-eight jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001, due to the closing of United States airspace, the citizens of this small community were called upon to come to the aid of more than six thousand displaced travelers.
Roxanne and Clarke Loper were excited to be on their way home from a lengthy and exhausting trip to Kazakhstan, where they had adopted a daughter, when their plane...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which...
10) Bearplane!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Follow a bear cub, their grownup, and their beloved stuffie Teddy as they make their way through the busy airport and cub's first plane ride. Their destination? A bear-y special family reunion with grandma! This cheerful, rhyming, reassuring go-to for little ones preparing for their first (or second or tenth) flight is a gentle adventure full of accessible bear puns and delightful touches, plus a detailed map of the bear-port on the endpapers.
12) Flightplan
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
13) On this airplane
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A story about coming to a new home and the diverse people you meet on an airplane. For fans of Last Stop on Market Street. On this airplane . . . Someone travels solo, two travel as one, three return and four set out. In this simple and moving book, a young family takes a plane to their new home. While onboard, they encounter all the people you meet on a plane: a bookworm, a businessperson, tourists, crying babies and daydreamers . . . all...
15) Grandma's smile
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A six-year-old boy travels to the coast to help his beloved grandmother find her smile.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The tragic story of the British airship R101-which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later-has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half...
17) Fly
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Get ready to take off in an airplane! Ground crew, flight attendants, pilots, and tower control are all here to help you journey across the sky -- dust jacket.
18) Fly high, Katie!
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Katie is flying to Florida to visit her grandmother, but she has never been on an airplane before.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request