Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, (Paperback)

from acaine1

 I like this book for multiple reasons. One reason I like this book is for its use of images. Most of the images are real life photographs. Not only does this allow the readers to relate to the time period, but also invites them to join Amelia's journey. Another reason I enjoy this book is the fo...

from tahayes

Daughter, wife, student, pilot, adventurer, early feminist. Amelia Earhart, as depicted in Candace Fleming's spellbinding biography, was all of these things and more. Fleming takes the reader from Earhart's birth in Kansas to her early childhood living with her grandmother, through her painful ad...

from Sullywriter

Another wonderful biography from Ms. Fleming, who always manages to bring her subjects vividly to life. I particularly appreciated the preface in which she discusses the challenges of sorting out facts from a life that has become so shrouded in myth, especially when Amelia Earhart herself played ...

from francescadefreitas

Amelia flies off the page in this biography, the story of her life interlaced with a minute by minute account of the search for her missing plane. Brave and reckless while flying, on the ground she carefully polished her public image. This is a fascinating picture of an adventurer who challenged ...

from Nancy.Castaldo

I heard Candace Fleming compare nonfiction writing to baking a cake at a SCBWI conference. She said that fiction writers head to the store and buy the most wonderful ingredients for their cake. They return to their kitchen and use their ingredients to make something delicious. Nonfiction authors ...