Bibliography



Bibliography

Adler, D. (2004). Cam Jansen: The mystery of flight 54. New York: Puffin Books.

Cam Jansen and her friend Eric are looking for a young girl that has just flown to American and has gotten lost in the airport. Cam must use her detective skills to help find the lost girl who doesn’t speak any English.

ISBN-13: 978-0-14-240179-8 3-6 Grade Level Fiction

Bernasconi, P. (2005). Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (mis)adventures in flight. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

This book tells about the funny inventions of Captain Arsenio who is trying to figure out how to fly. He builds six different contraptions but none of them work. Each of his exploits contains a picture, a paragraph, a quotation and an excerpt from his “flight diary.”

ISBN-13: 978-0-618-50749-8 K-3 Grade Level E Fiction

Botermans, J. (2004). Fantastic paper airplanes. New York: Sterling Publishing.

This book will give you step-by-step instructions on how to build paper airplanes. Some of the designs include fantasy flyers, competition craft, experimental models and reproductions of actual airplanes.

ISBN-13: 978-1-40271-149-7 5-8 Grade Level 745.592

Bringhurst, J.R. (1994). Planes, jets & helicopters: Great paper airplanes. New York: Tab Books.

This book will make folding paper airplanes easy for everyone. The book has fold-by-fold illustrations and instructions to build twenty five different airplanes. Some of the designs you will find in the book include a long-winged glider, Delta Wing, Stealth Bomber and Hornet.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8306-4451-3 5-9 Grade Level 745.592

Bursik, R. (1992). Amelia’s fantastic flight. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

This is not a book about Amelia Earhart. It is instead about a girl named Amelia who loves airplanes. She builds her own plane and then flies it around the world in less than one day. The book has colorful pictures and maps of all the places along her route.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-3386-1 K-3 Grade Level E Fiction

Cornish, J. (2003). Paper Airplanes. Retrieved November 20, 2007, from

This web site was created by a 5th grade teacher in Canada, Jim Cornish. It is a listing of web sites that have paper airplane instructions. Some of the links are dead but most are working. They have great ideas on different types of paper airplanes and how to throw them.

Daher, A. (2002). Flight from Big Tangle. Victoria, BC: Orca Books.

This is the first book in a series by Anita Daher about adventures in the rugged outdoors of Canada. In this book we meet Kaylee the daughter of two parents who are pilots of airplanes. Her father disappears over the Caribbean and neither her father or his plane are found. Kaylee is terrified every time her mother goes up in a plane. One day Kaylee and her dog Sausage are out in the woods when a forest fire catches them of guard. The only way out is to fly a pontoon plane to safety.

ISBN-13: 978-1-55143-234-2 3-6 Grade Level Fiction

Daher, A. (2004). Flight from Bear Canyon. Victoria, BC: Orca Books.

This is the sequel to Anita Daher’s Flight From Big Tangle. Kaylee is upset that she has to spend the summer with a girl named Jaz and her Uncle Jack. Kaylee soon has to be behind the controls of an airplane again when she and Jaz team up to save Uncle Jack.

ISBN-13: 978-1-55143-326-4 3-6 Grade Level Fiction

Fienberg, A. (1998). Minton Goes Flying. Australia: Allen & Unwin.

This book is about a salamander named Minton and his friend Turtle. The book is about the adventure they have flying their friend Bouncer back to the circus where she lives. The book has instructions for building the airplane that they ride in out of plastic bottles and cardboard.

ISBN-13: 978-1-86448-593-6 K-3 Grade Level E Fiction

Gray, S. & Gray, C. (2005). Easy paper airplanes. Retrieved November 20, 2007, from

This web site has all the links to the paper airplane games that we used in our lessons. It also has detailed instructions on folding all different types of paper airplanes from the easiest to the most difficult.

Henry, H.F. (2004). Flying Away. New York: Cubbie Blue Publishing.

This book is written by former Miss America, Heather French. The book tells the tail of Claire, who overcomes her fear of flying in airplanes. She takes her first flight and learns about the pioneers in aviation history.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9706341-4-6 K-3 Grade Level E Fiction

Hodgkins, F. (2006). How people learned to fly. New York: Harper Collins.

This book is explains how aircraft developed over time, from the earliest attempts at flight, through the Wright Brothers to today’s airplanes. The book contains illustrations and diagrams that students will find interesting. The book also includes steps to an experiment using paper airplanes.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8239-5274-8 K-3 Grade Level 629.1

Jacobs, M. (1999). Why can airplanes fly? New York: PowerKids Press.

This book gives information on common questions students have about flight such as how airplane wings work, what is air pressure, how do birds fly and what are the parts of an airplane.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8239-5274-8 K-3 Grade Level 629.132

Kramer, S. (2002). Night flight: Charles Lindbergh’s incredible adventure. New York: Gossett & Dunlap.

This book gives the account of Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris in 1927. The book has both illustrations, actual photographs and maps that help to tell the story.

ISBN-13: 978-0-448-42634-1 K-3 Grade Level 629.13

LaFosse, M.G. (2004). Making origami paper airplanes step by step. New York: PowerKids Press.

For a different take on paper airplanes this book shows you how to make airplanes using the origami technique of folding paper. The book has step-by-step instructions for making eight different airplanes from a two-piece stunt plane to a squid plane.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8239-6700-1 3-6 Grade Level 736

Lindbergh, R. (1996). Nobody owns the sky: The story of “brave Bessie” Coleman. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.

The story of Bessie Coleman, the first female African-American aviator, is told in this book. The book is written in rhyming verse and tells of the struggles Bessie Coleman overcame to become a pilot.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-0361-8 K-3 Grade Level E Fiction

Mortensen, L. (2008). Amelia Earhart: Female pioneer in flight. Wynnewood, PA: Schlessinger Media.

This is a biography of Amelia Earhart who was the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic. The book includes illustrations, references, index and glossary of terms.

ISBN-13: 978-1-40483-728-7 K-3 Grade Level 629.13

Munsch, R.N. (1988). Angela’s Airplane. Ontario, Canada: Annick Press.

Angela is a little girl in the book who is looking for her lost father in the airport. She accidentally finds herself on an airplane and decides to push just one button, then another and another. Before she knows it the plane is taking off.

ISBN-13: 978-1-55037-027-0 K-3 Grade Level E Fiction

Perretti, F. E. (2005). Mayday at two thousand five hundred. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson.

In this adventure book, Jay Cooper finds himself in a Cessna airplane flying with his uncle. After an almost mid air collision with another plane his uncle is unable to fly. The plane is running out of gas and Jay must find a way to save himself and his uncle.

ISBN-13: 978-1-40030-577-3 5-8 Grade Level Fiction

Schmidt, N. (1994). Best ever paper airplanes. New York: Sterling Publishing.

Diagrams and step by step instructions are found in this book on paper airplanes. The instructions are easy to follow and have magnified views of particularly tricky sections of the airplanes. Some of the pages also include yellow boxes that contain special information on how to build the airplanes.

ISBN-13: 978-1-895569-83-4 5-9 Grade Level 745.592

Tarquin, C. (Producer), & Palacio, O. (Director). (2004). All about flight [Video recording]. (Available from Schlessinger Media, Wynnewood, PA)

This video recording shows the basics of what makes flight possible. It shows demonstrations and several hands on projects so that children can see just how flight is possible. It also includes a teacher’s guide that is available online.

ISBN-13: 978-1-57225-939-3 K-3 Grade Level Video Recording

Wickham, M. (1997). Mysterious journey: Amelia Earhart’s last flight. Norwalk, CO: Soundprints Publishing.

Lucy and several of her friends are visiting the National Air and Space Museum. While they are there Lucy is suddenly transported through time and finds herself flying Amelia Earhart’s plane on that fateful last flight. Lucy wants to find out what happened on that last flight but is transported back through time before she can find out.

ISBN-13: 978-1-56899-407-9 3-6 Grade Level Fiction

Yolen, Jane. (2003). My brothers’ flying machine: Wilbur, Orville and me. London: Little Brown.

The story of Orville and Wilbur Wright is told through the voice of their younger sister Katherine. The book contains an author’s note page where Jane Yolen explains the source of her many quotes and actual events that she uses through out her book. Katherine was a source of encouragement while the brothers worked on their many inventions.

ISBN-13: 978-0-316-97159-1 K-3 Grade Level 629.13

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