Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean
Sarah Stewart Taylor, . . Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (96pp) ISBN 978-1-4231-1337-9
Rather than rushing past the highlights of Earhart's career, this quietly moving book approaches her life through the admiring curiosity of a girl who also aspires to escape traditional boundaries. Young Grace has grown up in Trepassey, Newfoundland, the nearest point in North America from which a plane can take off to fly to Europe; it's also a seacoast community familiar with shipwrecks and other evidence of how coldly indifferent nature can be. In June of 1928, tweener Grace, the dubious townspeople and a mob of impatient newsmen wait for Earhart to finally get her plane in the air for a transatlantic flight. Grace yearns to leave the little village and to become a newspaper
Reviewed on: 11/02/2009
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 96 pages - 978-1-368-02229-3
Paperback - 96 pages - 978-1-368-04287-1
Paperback - 96 pages - 978-1-4231-1344-7