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"You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight." --
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Nick Flynn novels volume 1
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"After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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In a country far away, a new invention--the mechanical mousetrap--has caused all the mice but one to flee to America. Now stranded in a dangerous country, the last mouse decides to build a plane and fly to the land of freedom.
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Like a spectral presence, a hand clutching a gold piece emerges from the ice of a calving glacier near the small town where Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell is investigating the brutal murder of a 74-year-old woman. The hand belonged to an army soldier killed with his crewmates in the crash of the World War II army plane entombed by the glacier a half century ago.
7) Moon plane
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A young boy looks at a plane in the sky and imagines flying one all the way to the moon.
8) Cloudmaker
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...
9) Flight 1-2-3
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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A boy counts his way through the airport and onto the plane as it flies towards its destination.
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Series
Nick Flynn novels volume 2
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Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer—a shadowy intelligence outfit whose roots go back to the very beginning of the Cold War. But his first mission for them almost becomes his last. While meeting with a high-ranking Iranian dissident in the Austrian Alps, Flynn is ambushed and nearly killed… just after learning that Iran and Russia are working together on a mysterious project—one they have codenamed MIDNIGHT. Flynn is determined...
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Series
Things that go volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate different kinds of airplanes and what they can do.
13) Stealing air
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Angela loses her father at the airport and looks everywhere to find him--beside the airplanes, under the airplanes, and finally inside an airplane. Sitting in the cockpit, she pushes one button, then another till--oh no! The plane takes off"--
15) Planes GO
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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Describes the sounds of eight different kinds of airplanes.
17) Dusty flies high
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dusty Crophopper, a big-hearted, speed-loving crop duster, dreams of competing in the toughest and most exhilarating around-the-world air race in history. With the support of friends old and new, he reaches heights he never dreamed possible--and in the process, gives a world the inspiration to soar.
19) Before the fall
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On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the passengers disappear into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs--the painter--and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the tragedy and the...
20) Sparrow Hawk Red
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Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers.