Jill Esbaum

(Author)

Jack Knight's Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the US Air Mail ServiceHardcover, 29 March 2022

Jack Knight's Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the US Air Mail Service
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Reading Age
Ages: 7-10
Grade Levels
2-5
Print Length
40 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Calkins Creek Books
Date Published
29 Mar 2022
ISBN-10
1684379814
ISBN-13
9781684379811

Description

High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process.

When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail.

For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race.

But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 7-10
Author:
Jill Esbaum
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
CN
Date Published:
29 March 2022
Dimensions:
28.45 x 26.16 x 1.27 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 2-5
Illustrator:
ISBN-10:
1684379814
ISBN-13:
9781684379811
Language:
English
Pages:
40
Weight:
566.99 gm

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