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I Was Amelia Earhart

by Jane Mendelsohn
Blair Brown
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In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself.
There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . .
There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas.
There is the flight itself — day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it").
And there is, miraculously, an island ("We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke").
And, most important, there is Noonan . . .
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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780735206977
  • File size: 95010 KB
  • Release date: November 3, 2015
  • Duration: 03:17:56

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  • ISBN: 9780735206977
  • File size: 95020 KB
  • Release date: November 3, 2015
  • Duration: 03:19:56
  • Number of parts: 3
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Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

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Lexile® Measure:1010
Text Difficulty:6-8

In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself.
There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . .
There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas.
There is the flight itself — day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it").
And there is, miraculously, an island ("We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke").
And, most important, there is Noonan . . .
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Books on Tape
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780735206977
    File size: 95010 KB
    Release date: November 3, 2015
    Duration: 03:17:56

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780735206977
    File size: 95020 KB
    Release date: November 3, 2015
    Duration: 03:19:56
    Number of parts: 3

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 1010
    Text Difficulty: 6-8
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