pickThis book was everything I want in a historical fiction book. A young woman in post-WWI England makes a bold new friends running Hazelbourne's Motorcycle and Flying Club who changes her life. It's a book about class and war and pandemics and societal change and feminism and racism/ xenophobia and so many other things. I absolutely adored it.
story of a child who discovers their “superpowers“—like flying and making things disappear—aren't so super after all. But when things go wrong, the real superhero turns out to be someone unexpected!
pickIt‘s a great reminder that real superpowers, like love and care, come from the people closest to us.
My usual trio: an audiobook, a middle grade book and a bedtime book (which happens to be my #doublespin and #authoramonth book!)
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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.“
This biography talks about the life of Amelia Earhart who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. It talks about her dreams and her disappearance during her flight around the world.
pickNonfiction - published in 2011. Candace Fleming‘s exploration of the infamous Amelia Earhart — her extraordinary accomplishments, doomed final flight, and modern legacy — proves to readers that history can be as thrilling as fantasy, as suspenseful as mystery, and as interesting as the best of fiction.
“Flying might not be plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”
