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Molly feels that everything in her life has changed when her father goes off to England to help wounded soldiers and her beloved aunt joins the Women's Airforce Service Pilots. Includes a section on women pilots in the armed services, and a project related to the story.Tags
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Molly goes to her grandparents hoping to have a usual summer, but everything's different. The biggest change for Molly is the absense of her aunt Eleanor, who spends most of her time training to fly with the WASPs (Women's Airforce Service Pilots). Molly feels abandoned until her aunt takes her for a flight, and she realizes both why it's wonderful and why it's important.
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Valerie Tripp graduated with honors from the first coeducational class at Yale University in 1973. She received a Masters of Education from Harvard University in 1981. From 1974 to 1980, she was a writer for the Addison-Wesley Reading Program. She then became a freelance writer for The Hampton-Brown Company and ELHI Publishers Services creating show more educational materials for major publishers. In 1983, Tripp and Pleasant Rowland decided to write a series of books about girls growing up all over the country during some of the most historical events of the past. Rowland envisioned the books as one of the cornerstones of a new company she had just founded called the Pleasant Co. Tripp's first assignment for Pleasant Co. was writing four of the six books about Samantha, a girl in turn-of-the-century America. Tripp then wrote about Felicity, Molly, and Josephina for the American Girls series. Her other works include the Hopscotch Hill School series. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Molly Takes Flight
- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Molly McIntire
- Important events
- World War II
- First words
- "Here it is!" cried Molly McIntire.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And they climbed into the noisy old truck together.
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .T7363 .M — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- English
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 1
