8. From Ground to Air
with The Wright Brothers

From their first stomach flip flop at lift-off to their bird-like soar through the sky, this book tells the Wright brothers' story. Joining them in this ground-to-air adventure will be a fictional 13-year-old named Becky Miller. She lives on Kitty Hawk Island but spends the winters with her grandma in Dayton. She desperately wants a job at the Wright Cycle Company, making and repairing bicycles. As in all the other My American Journey books, Becky does not change the true history of the Wright brothers' race to fly the first powered airship. Each person you meet, piece of wood you hear sawed, and each nose diving swoop you watch really happened.So steady yourself and get ready for take off!

Included in this full-color, attractively bound book are:
-- A Character-Development Section that applies lessons from The Wright Brother's patience.
-- A "Do You Know?" Section that provides added information about events, people,
and things mentioned in From Ground to Air.
-- An Activity Section that will make the brothers' lives "hands on" real.

Published by B&H Publishers
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Wright Brothers Links:
Smithsonian On the Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers National Memorial
Franklin Institute: Centennial of Flight