Fly Girls

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A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer
 
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed—until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.

Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcée; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood family’s expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanes—and in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Eamon Dolan Books Paper
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 5, 2019
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 378 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1328592790
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1328592798
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.94 x 8 inches
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 910L
Best Sellers Rank: #80,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #157 in Women in History #618 in World War II History (Books) #698 in Women’s Biographies
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