The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar by Engle, Margarita

The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar

In this beautiful picture book filled with soaring words and buoyant illustrations, award-winners Margarita Engle and Sara...
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Author: Margarita Engle
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Language: English
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The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar by Engle, Margarita

The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar

$50.18

The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar

$50.18
Author: Margarita Engle
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In this beautiful picture book filled with soaring words and buoyant illustrations, award-winners Margarita Engle and Sara Palacios tell the inspiring true story of Aída de Acosta, the first woman to fly a motorized aircraft.

On a lively street in the lovely city of Paris, a girl named Aída glanced up and was dazzled by the sight of an airship. Oh, how she wished she could soar through the sky like that! The inventor of the airship, Alberto, invited Aída to ride with him, but she didn't want to be a passenger. She wanted to be the pilot.

Aída was just a teenager, and no woman or girl had ever flown before. She didn't let that stop her, though. All she needed was courage and a chance to try.

Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 03/06/2018
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 10.20h x 8.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781481445023
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 195749 / Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 12/01/2017
Booklist 12/01/2017 pg. 51
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2017 pg. 134
Publishers Weekly 02/19/2018
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2018
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2018 pg. 148
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima's Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; and The Lightning Dreamer. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl; Dancing Hands; and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.

Sara Palacios is the recipient of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match and the illustrator of several other picture books, including The Flying Girl. Sara graduated with a degree in graphic design and went on to earn BFA and MFA degrees in illustration from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. A native of Mexico, Sara now lives in San Francisco.

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