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Summary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME WIN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIN RATED PG-13

Mulley, Clare

Summary: "Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a passion for flying that bordered on addiction, these women could not have been less alike. One was Aryan Nazi poster-girl Hanna Reitsch, an unsurpassed pilot, who is now best-known for being the last...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MUL

Rockliff, Mara

Summary: This true story follows the story of Beatrice Shilling, a woman whose ingenuity, persistence, and mechanical expertise helped Britain win World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021

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Griffith, Victoria.

Summary: Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2011

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.13 GRI

Summary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WIN

Heppenheimer, T. A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 HEP

Sutter, Joseph F.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 SUT

Slader, Erik

Summary: Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 692.4 Slader 2018

Crouch, Tom D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2003

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