YA Adventure
Date Published: 12-05-2024
Publisher: Empire Studies Press
Fly along with Ruby, Sarra, Isoke and other young heroines as they take to the skies to save their families.
Nine scenarios, nine heroines, nine lessons in flight.
Gia travels from Manhattan’s Lower East Side to the Aleutian Islands to capture one of the most mysterious warplanes of all time – the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
Young Yi-Tai Jo falls in love with the homely, misunderstood X-1 rocket jet. Heartbroken at X’s failure to break the speed of sound, she may have a solution.
One morning, bratty Anke has a bitter spat with her sister, Romy. Yet when Romy is kidnapped, Anke is the one who can save her – using an old war-kite to glide to the villain’s tower. Can she navigate gliding through the Black Forest and save Romy?
Ship-salvager’s daughter Sarra defies a garrison to save Father from Rome’s wrath. Can her home-made balloon win the day?
“Tom’s delightful stories in The Aviation Girls span ancient ideas
about flight through the Golden Age of aviation to the Age of
Rocketry.”
— Anne Millbrooke, author of the award-winning “Aviation
History
About the Author
Tom Durwood is a teacher, writer and editor with an interest in history.
Tom most recently taught English Composition and Empire and Literature at
Valley Forge Military College, where he won the Teacher of the Year Award
five times.
Tom’s historical fiction adventures has been promising. The stories
have won nine literary awards to date. “A true pleasure …
the richness of the layers of Tom’s novel is compelling,” writes
Fatima Sharrafedine in her foreword to “The Illustrated
Boatman’s Daughter.” The Midwest Book Review calls that same
adventure “uniformly gripping and educational … pairing action
and adventure with social issues.” Adds Prairie Review, “A
deeply intriguing, ambitious historical fiction series.”
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