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2) Falling
Author
Language
English
Description
"You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight." --
3) Hostage
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of The Last Flight and the wrenching emotional intensity of Room, Hostage takes us on board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives...
Author
Publisher
Farrar
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Freddy LeGrand ends his transatlantic flight somewhere in the French countryside. Soon he sets out for Paris with a new plane, but trouble lies just beyond the next horizon.
8) Airplanes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1986]
Lexile measure
280L
Language
English
Description
Brief text and illustrations present a variety of airplanes and what they do.
9) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 1903
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the Young family from Three Willows Village, Kwangtung province, China, and their lives in the Land of the Golden Mountain, America. In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco, California and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
10) Hello, airplane!
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
AD 140L
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text follow an airplane as it says good-bye to the ground and hello to the sky, where it flies over a town, mountains, clouds, and people.
13) Planes go
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Describes the sounds of eight different kinds of airplanes.
16) Stealing air
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
18) I love planes!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child celebrates his love of planes by naming his favorite kinds and their notable characteristics.