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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment--nicknamed the "night witches"--faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to...
Author
Publisher
ADV Manga
Pub. Date
c2006-
Physical Desc
volume : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate universe, a group of students learn that they are being groomed as pilots of enormous artificial beings called Evangelion and will have to take part in many battles, as they deal with normal teenage issues.
4) Defiant
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she's willing to go for victory.
5) The last 8
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After an alien attack devastates the Earth, pilot and future astronaut Clover Martinez bands with seven other teens in a struggle to survive.
6) Starsight
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After becoming a pilot and learning some disturbing things about her father, Spensa disguises herself and enters a Krell pilot training program where she discovers the purpose of the program is to exterminate humans.
7) Stateless
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.
8) Cytonic
Author
Series
Skyward volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade has been embroiled in an alien empire's war and now, to figure out what she really is, she must leave her world behind to enter the Nowhere, a mysterious realm from which those who enter rarely ever return.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Showcases the women who faced many obstacles to fly outside the box, discussing their incredible accomplishments and how these courageous trailblazers persevered and endured, insisting on success on their path to flight.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
622 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Return to the planet Detritus with FM, Alanik, and Jorgen in this must-have three-novella collection featuring exclusive character art and deleted scenes from Skyward with commentary from Brandon Sanderson"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Sometimes history is made by a dyslexic, mischievous boy who hates school, is a descendant of one of Frederick Douglass? half-sisters, and whose Pops was a Buffalo Soldier. In I Wanted to be a Pilot, one of the less than 100 living Documented Original Tuskegee Airman, Franklin J. Macon, tells the lively stories of how he overcame life?s obstacles to become a Tuskegee Airman. Soar through history with Franklin as he conquers dyslexia,...
13) B for Buster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany.
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In her first year at the United States Air Force Academy, Carol Danvers finds herself overwhelmes with a rigorous schedule, demanding officers, and the looming possibility of joining the elite Flying Falcons program--which has never counted a woman among their roster.
15) Iron widow
Author
Publisher
Penguin Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
394 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China...When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare kind of female pilot who can sacrifice males to power up Chrysalises...
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