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America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation by Jim Rasenberger
The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom D. Crouch
A Century of Triumph: The History of Aviation by Christopher Chant
Daring American Heroes of Flight: 9 Brave Fliers by Jennifer Reed
Dawn Over Kitty Hawk: The Novel of the Wright Brothers by Walter J. Boyne
First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers (I Can Read Book 4) by George Shea
First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane by Peter Busby
The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur & Orville Wright by Noah Adams
How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History by Orville Wright
Let's Fly, Wilbur and Orville! (Scholastic Chapter Book Biography) by Peter Roop
Look to the Stars by Buzz Aldrin
My Brothers' Flying Machine: Wilbur, Orville, and Me by Jane Yolen
Orville Wright: The Flyer (Heroes of History) by Janet Benge
Profiles in Folly: History's Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong by Alan Axelrod
Race for the Sky: The Kitty Hawk Diaries of Johnny Moore by Dan Gutman
Taking Flight : The Story of the Wright Brothers by Stephen Krensky
THESE WONDERFUL PEOPLE, INTIMATE MOMENTS IN THEIR LIVES by Noel Ames
They Flew to Fame by Robert Sidney Bowen
To Conquer the Air : The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight by James Tobin
To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers by Wendie C. Old
The Usborne Book of Inventors: From DaVinci to Biro by Struan Reid
Very First Biographies: Easy-to-Read Books About 16 Amazing Americans by Scholastic
Wilbur & Orville Wright: Taking Flight (Trailblazer Biographies) by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Wilbur and Orville Wright (When They Were Boys) by Carroll Everett
Wilbur and Orville Wright, The Flight to Adventure by Louis Sabin
Wilbur and Orville Wright: Boys with Wings by Augusta Stevenson
Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers by Augusta Stevenson
The Wright Brothers by Quentin Reynolds
The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk by Donald J. Sobol
The Wright brothers: A brief account of their work, 1899-1911. by C. H. Gibbs-Smith
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
The Wright Brothers: They Gave Us Wings (Sowers World Heroes Series) by Charles Ludwig
Young Orville & Wilbur Wright: First to Fly (First-Start Biographies) by Andrew Woods

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