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Carole Marsh Mysteries: Real Kids, Real Places #9
The Mystery at Kill Devil Hills
One historic flight, four funny friends, a missing plane, a howling winter storm, clues on every dune and time is flying away!
150 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2002
About the author
Carole Marsh
6,613 books55 followersCarole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.
In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.
In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.
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June 14, 2018
1.5
I've read the Biltmore one in this series, because it showed up at my library's bookstore. I found this on here through that one, and I wanted to read it because it, like Biltmore, takes place in North Carolina. A mystery involving NC history, can't pass that up.
I was a bit insulted that the NC coast was described as creepy. It's not creepy! It's beautiful. But I guess it's because we have a lot of ghost stories and shipwrecks and pirate lore.
The picture on the back of the book of the glider with the caption "on a wing and a prayer" is cute.
She wrote about her grandkids which I guess was natural for her and cool for the kids, but I thought she was just using their names. When she said their grandma had been writing about the first flight for a year I couldn't believe it. But when she said their grandma wrote mysteries for children and included them and their friends and the Carole Marsh fan club kids I was appalled. You don't put yourself in your own book. That's self-gratuitous. And just weird. I can't believe an author actually did that, in this manner. You're already writing the book; that's enough. Putting your own grandkids in is one thing, but putting yourself and your husband is just too much. It feels like a private work that's just for your family.
It was amazing to have the Outer Banks mentioned, along with the Graveyard of the Atlantic, which is how they used to be known. Cape Hatteras and it having been moved further back from shore. I recently learned about the Chicamacico Lifesaving Station at a presentation given at my library about the lifesavers back then.
I hadn't heard that the people who lived at the beach served as involuntary lifesavers when ships wrecked. "Their motto was You Don't Have to Come Back . . . You Just Have to Go Out." That's really brave and inspiring. I already knew how tough and brave they were from that library event. I've never heard of Pedro, the Coast Guard rescue helicopter.
Jockey's Ridge is the largest sand dune on the eastern coast. Horse races used to take place at the bottom.
Their dad bought them a paper helicopter and it sparked their interest in flying. I had never heard of that.
The term hush puppies originated during the Civil War when the soldiers would give fried cornbread to the dogs to keep them quiet so they wouldn't alert the enemy to their position. I never even thought of the name but that is too cool!
The dunes always move and one time they covered over an inn. Poor inn!
Kudzu came from Japan to use against soil erosion. It can grow 12 in. in one day.
They were at the airport cafe and a woman greeted them, but as they left she sneered and laughed meanly. It was so random, way too soon in the story, and just totally bizarre. And what a cheap, laughable villain.
I was thrilled with the mention of Manteo and the Elizabeth II replica. I was overjoyed at the mention. I stayed in that town at an inn with a short walk to that very ship. It's beautiful there.
It's the ship that brought the first English colonists over.
She mentioned The Mystery of Blackbeard the Pirate and the Mystery of the Lost Colony...Plugging your other works into your book? No. It's like, here, go out and read my other books too. Like a marketing ploy. And since she had already written books about Blackbeard and the Lost Colony, they shouldn't have even been brought up. Keep it about Kill Devil Hills.
400 years ago when the colonists came, they said oysters were as big as a man's forearm and mosquitoes as big as a plate.
I like the point she made about the Indians mostly being friendly to the colonists, but the colonists weren't always so friendly to the Indians. Kids need to know that. Indians were suspicious when their people started dying from diseases they'd never seen.
If Christina knew all about the Elizabeth because she had read her grandma's book on it, then why was she asking all these questions? She asked what Croatan meant and what happened to the colonists. Surely that was covered in the book and why did this morph into a colonist tale? Leave that in the book that's about the colony. It's like she didn't have enough info about the Wright Brothers. I liked the other NC info she wove in, like the hush puppies and kudzu, but it was too much on the lost colony and it got sidetracked.
A woman glared at Christina at the restaurant and followed them when they left. She then followed their car once they left the hotel, which was full, along with the angry First Flight greeter. It was insane.
The 2 women followed them to the monument. There they met up with a third woman who strutted, looked smug and nodded to them. Like wth? These are the lamest excuses for villains that I've ever seen. They could have been described 100 times better.
Christina said "Not if you want them to go uppity up up instead of down diddity down down." Wth?
I kept waiting for the humor to surface but I was 50 pages in without anything being funny enough to be added as a quote. I saw some attempts at humor but they fell so flat. I would reread to see if it was good enough to be a quote, but they weren't. They missed the mark so hard. In Biltmore I found a couple things funny, but in here the humor was nonexistent. That sure didn't help things.
When they talked about Blackbeard I almost lost it. Here she was again telling details from another book. If we wanted to know about the colony or Blackbeard, we would read those books. And when we read them we're already going to know what happened because she put it in here.
It's cool someone from the lifesaving station helped them with their flight.
Wilbur and Orville had a bike shop and they liked doing that more than going to school.
When Papa was arrested for the theft of Uncle Joe's flier, it was so ridiculous and dramatic. The tools in his place were those used to break into Joe's tent. Papa knows Uncle Joe. They were all staying together. Why would he steal from him? And the grandma, uncle and kids could have provided an eyewitness account that he was with them the whole time. There's you alibi. I highly doubted the law would handcuff him and take him to jail like that. Talk about unnecessary drama.
It stood glaringly out that grandma left her two grandkids and Uncle Joe left his two kids alone in the tent at the park all by themselves while they went to bail Papa out. That's a terrible way to guardian kids. Not even tell someone to watch them or anything. Especially with a thief on the loose.
The kids singlehandedly operated the hang glider. Sure...I'd believe that out of teenagers but not children. They landed at the cottage of the 3 evil women, whereupon the author said they looked like ugly witches. Being mean is one thing, but I don't think you want to send the message to kids to judge people based off of looks. Calling someone ugly isn't okay. Marsh then had the women refuse them the right to be there, a telephone, water and asked the kids when they would be leaving. There were very ugly tones of voices, messy hair, glares, and staring. So they represented about 0% threat because they weren't intimidating in the least.
"Do you have a telephone?" Christina asked.
"No!" the middle woman said.
"Could we have some water?" Grant asked, scraping sand from his tongue.
"Forget it!" said the oldest woman.
"Well, can we come inside?" Alex asked. She looked exhausted. "I have to go to the bathroom."
"Tough!" said women all together.
It was such a lame attempt at making the women threatening. It was an utter fail, and the writing just isn't very good.
The scene that took place next was so ridiculous it was laughable. One of the women screamed for them to get in the cottage, but the kids wouldn't. So the women had another huddle--because seeing 3 women talking together and not actually hearing anything that they're saying is really scary. The least she could have done was have the kids overhear something terrible the women planned to do to them--and without saying anything motioned for the kids to get in the jeep, drove them to the monument and dropped them off.
The entire county evacuated; bridges were shut down and everyone had left before the oncoming hurricane, but these 4 kids were left unattended in a tent...I couldn't believe what I was reading. No one remembered them. Mimi and Joe and everyone just left, without once checking on the kids. It was explained away that the phone lines were down, and the bridges were closed or the area flooded.
It was such a stretch to say the kids slept through the first half of the hurricane. Yeah. Right. Idc if the backside is worse, if you are sleeping in a tent and there's a hurricane going on outside, you are going to know it in some kind of way.
Mimi, Papa, and Joe all arrived during the hurricane. I found the timing to be really weird and terribly thought-out. The bridges were closed, but they were opened the next morning even though the hurricane was still going on?? Okayy...And as they were leaving Christina saw the 3 women on the monument. What would these 3 stupid women be doing on the monument during a hurricane? Like, come on. This is so far past ridiculous it isn't even funny. So far, they hadn't done anything but follow them around and stare. And the family hadn't even noticed most of it so you just did all of it for nothing. THEY ARE NOT WORKING. Gosh, it was cringe-worthy.
At least they told they security guards to get the kids, that made that better. And the kids weren't found because they were using the hang glider to search for the missing Flyer.
It turned out that the gap didn't go to fail, just to the courthouse. Would police officers handcuff someone and arrest them for a theft and go to a courthouse instead of jail? I don't think so.
All the adults had a good laugh when the kids told them they took the hang glider and went looking for Flyer, weathered the storm in the tent overnight, and then went to the museum--all during a hurricane. That reaction was so unrealistic. They're glad the kids were safe, but you would be mad at them for doing those things and worried, not getting a kick out of the crazy story. Mimi even said "it's so wild and crazy it should be in a book!" Very funny. It is in a book. I hate things like that. An author in real life writing her real self as a character who is an author comes up with an idea for the book and then comments on said idea being so crazy it should be in a book. What is going on here with these ideas?
The crime was so confusing I did not understand it in any way. Which means it didn't make sense. Papa was arrested for stealing Flyer. Okay. His tools from his plane were the ones used to break into Joe's tent. Then the next day the police realize Papa's plane was broken into and his toolbox stolen. The police came to this brilliant conclusion because they found the toolbox with Joe's tools in it and Papa's fingerprints. The grand explanation was that Papa was a stranger--even though he was working with Joe--and they were his fingerprints. That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Papa was off the hook until they find who stole Flyer...which didn't make any sense. Why was he let free now and don't you mean he's still a suspect unless they find who stole Flyer? Why would he be a suspect when they find out who really took Flyer? Unnecessary drama and a hole so big you can fly Flyer through it.
Orville and Wilbur didn't finish high school. They sold toys they made to make money.
The night of the ball, they were left with a sitter who mentioned different Wright events. Christina thought she knew where Flyer was just from that, but she wouldn't tell any of the other kids. I hate when one character withholds info like the other characters don't deserve to know. I know it keeps the suspense for readers that way it's a surprise, but you can still say that she told them without telling us what she said. It's not a one-person show and Christina had too much of the spotlight.
When I found out Flyer had been turned into a windmill I felt like shaking my head. It was outlandish. Grant had watched a show where kids used junk to turn into things, and that's how Charlotte knew that Flyer had been used to make a windmill at the women's cottage, because the adults had said there was no windmill there.
They knocked on the door and the women ran out the back door and got in their jeep. It almost made me laugh.
There was a picture of the kids watching the plane be reassembled. Wouldn't a better shot be of the plane?? It's decisions like this that brought this soo far down.
They reassembled the Flyer in that short amount of time before the event began, and got it going right in the nick of time. It was an eye-roll moment.
There was a dramatic scene in which a dark car pulled up and a man with a microphone in his ear told them to get in. What is up with this writing? That's all I could wonder. The First Lady and President of the United States were in the car and they got to ride with them and go to an event for dignitaries and Joe was honored for building the Flyer. So outrageous. Then it's cut off and it's the next morning. Good idea to not cover what happened...
I waited the whole book to learn what was up with these stupid women, and all I got were 2 sentences. They were mad about the celebration and "It seems they thought that their ancestors from that era had been shunned instead of being invited to participate."
What? That's it? That's all you can come up with? And she didn't even know if they were going to be punished. So grandpa goes off in handcuffs but the real people who stole it get off with nothing.
I just can’t believe what I just read. It was so far-fetched, and when I got done I literally said "That was so stupid." I had the same issues with the Biltmore one, a crazy, impossible mystery with kids getting the run of the whole place, which you would not, could not, in real life. How much enjoyment are we going to get out of a mystery that is impossible to happen? But at least that one had some suspects and we wondered who had done it, had a tense, suspenseful moment. This had nothing. The only thing it offered were interesting facts about NC history. The rest was boring, uninteresting, stupid, outrageous and unrealistic. I'm afraid to read any more if the stories are this ridiculous.
I've read the Biltmore one in this series, because it showed up at my library's bookstore. I found this on here through that one, and I wanted to read it because it, like Biltmore, takes place in North Carolina. A mystery involving NC history, can't pass that up.
I was a bit insulted that the NC coast was described as creepy. It's not creepy! It's beautiful. But I guess it's because we have a lot of ghost stories and shipwrecks and pirate lore.
The picture on the back of the book of the glider with the caption "on a wing and a prayer" is cute.
She wrote about her grandkids which I guess was natural for her and cool for the kids, but I thought she was just using their names. When she said their grandma had been writing about the first flight for a year I couldn't believe it. But when she said their grandma wrote mysteries for children and included them and their friends and the Carole Marsh fan club kids I was appalled. You don't put yourself in your own book. That's self-gratuitous. And just weird. I can't believe an author actually did that, in this manner. You're already writing the book; that's enough. Putting your own grandkids in is one thing, but putting yourself and your husband is just too much. It feels like a private work that's just for your family.
It was amazing to have the Outer Banks mentioned, along with the Graveyard of the Atlantic, which is how they used to be known. Cape Hatteras and it having been moved further back from shore. I recently learned about the Chicamacico Lifesaving Station at a presentation given at my library about the lifesavers back then.
I hadn't heard that the people who lived at the beach served as involuntary lifesavers when ships wrecked. "Their motto was You Don't Have to Come Back . . . You Just Have to Go Out." That's really brave and inspiring. I already knew how tough and brave they were from that library event. I've never heard of Pedro, the Coast Guard rescue helicopter.
Jockey's Ridge is the largest sand dune on the eastern coast. Horse races used to take place at the bottom.
Their dad bought them a paper helicopter and it sparked their interest in flying. I had never heard of that.
The term hush puppies originated during the Civil War when the soldiers would give fried cornbread to the dogs to keep them quiet so they wouldn't alert the enemy to their position. I never even thought of the name but that is too cool!
The dunes always move and one time they covered over an inn. Poor inn!
Kudzu came from Japan to use against soil erosion. It can grow 12 in. in one day.
They were at the airport cafe and a woman greeted them, but as they left she sneered and laughed meanly. It was so random, way too soon in the story, and just totally bizarre. And what a cheap, laughable villain.
I was thrilled with the mention of Manteo and the Elizabeth II replica. I was overjoyed at the mention. I stayed in that town at an inn with a short walk to that very ship. It's beautiful there.
It's the ship that brought the first English colonists over.
She mentioned The Mystery of Blackbeard the Pirate and the Mystery of the Lost Colony...Plugging your other works into your book? No. It's like, here, go out and read my other books too. Like a marketing ploy. And since she had already written books about Blackbeard and the Lost Colony, they shouldn't have even been brought up. Keep it about Kill Devil Hills.
400 years ago when the colonists came, they said oysters were as big as a man's forearm and mosquitoes as big as a plate.
I like the point she made about the Indians mostly being friendly to the colonists, but the colonists weren't always so friendly to the Indians. Kids need to know that. Indians were suspicious when their people started dying from diseases they'd never seen.
If Christina knew all about the Elizabeth because she had read her grandma's book on it, then why was she asking all these questions? She asked what Croatan meant and what happened to the colonists. Surely that was covered in the book and why did this morph into a colonist tale? Leave that in the book that's about the colony. It's like she didn't have enough info about the Wright Brothers. I liked the other NC info she wove in, like the hush puppies and kudzu, but it was too much on the lost colony and it got sidetracked.
A woman glared at Christina at the restaurant and followed them when they left. She then followed their car once they left the hotel, which was full, along with the angry First Flight greeter. It was insane.
The 2 women followed them to the monument. There they met up with a third woman who strutted, looked smug and nodded to them. Like wth? These are the lamest excuses for villains that I've ever seen. They could have been described 100 times better.
Christina said "Not if you want them to go uppity up up instead of down diddity down down." Wth?
I kept waiting for the humor to surface but I was 50 pages in without anything being funny enough to be added as a quote. I saw some attempts at humor but they fell so flat. I would reread to see if it was good enough to be a quote, but they weren't. They missed the mark so hard. In Biltmore I found a couple things funny, but in here the humor was nonexistent. That sure didn't help things.
When they talked about Blackbeard I almost lost it. Here she was again telling details from another book. If we wanted to know about the colony or Blackbeard, we would read those books. And when we read them we're already going to know what happened because she put it in here.
It's cool someone from the lifesaving station helped them with their flight.
Wilbur and Orville had a bike shop and they liked doing that more than going to school.
When Papa was arrested for the theft of Uncle Joe's flier, it was so ridiculous and dramatic. The tools in his place were those used to break into Joe's tent. Papa knows Uncle Joe. They were all staying together. Why would he steal from him? And the grandma, uncle and kids could have provided an eyewitness account that he was with them the whole time. There's you alibi. I highly doubted the law would handcuff him and take him to jail like that. Talk about unnecessary drama.
It stood glaringly out that grandma left her two grandkids and Uncle Joe left his two kids alone in the tent at the park all by themselves while they went to bail Papa out. That's a terrible way to guardian kids. Not even tell someone to watch them or anything. Especially with a thief on the loose.
The kids singlehandedly operated the hang glider. Sure...I'd believe that out of teenagers but not children. They landed at the cottage of the 3 evil women, whereupon the author said they looked like ugly witches. Being mean is one thing, but I don't think you want to send the message to kids to judge people based off of looks. Calling someone ugly isn't okay. Marsh then had the women refuse them the right to be there, a telephone, water and asked the kids when they would be leaving. There were very ugly tones of voices, messy hair, glares, and staring. So they represented about 0% threat because they weren't intimidating in the least.
"Do you have a telephone?" Christina asked.
"No!" the middle woman said.
"Could we have some water?" Grant asked, scraping sand from his tongue.
"Forget it!" said the oldest woman.
"Well, can we come inside?" Alex asked. She looked exhausted. "I have to go to the bathroom."
"Tough!" said women all together.
It was such a lame attempt at making the women threatening. It was an utter fail, and the writing just isn't very good.
The scene that took place next was so ridiculous it was laughable. One of the women screamed for them to get in the cottage, but the kids wouldn't. So the women had another huddle--because seeing 3 women talking together and not actually hearing anything that they're saying is really scary. The least she could have done was have the kids overhear something terrible the women planned to do to them--and without saying anything motioned for the kids to get in the jeep, drove them to the monument and dropped them off.
The entire county evacuated; bridges were shut down and everyone had left before the oncoming hurricane, but these 4 kids were left unattended in a tent...I couldn't believe what I was reading. No one remembered them. Mimi and Joe and everyone just left, without once checking on the kids. It was explained away that the phone lines were down, and the bridges were closed or the area flooded.
It was such a stretch to say the kids slept through the first half of the hurricane. Yeah. Right. Idc if the backside is worse, if you are sleeping in a tent and there's a hurricane going on outside, you are going to know it in some kind of way.
Mimi, Papa, and Joe all arrived during the hurricane. I found the timing to be really weird and terribly thought-out. The bridges were closed, but they were opened the next morning even though the hurricane was still going on?? Okayy...And as they were leaving Christina saw the 3 women on the monument. What would these 3 stupid women be doing on the monument during a hurricane? Like, come on. This is so far past ridiculous it isn't even funny. So far, they hadn't done anything but follow them around and stare. And the family hadn't even noticed most of it so you just did all of it for nothing. THEY ARE NOT WORKING. Gosh, it was cringe-worthy.
At least they told they security guards to get the kids, that made that better. And the kids weren't found because they were using the hang glider to search for the missing Flyer.
It turned out that the gap didn't go to fail, just to the courthouse. Would police officers handcuff someone and arrest them for a theft and go to a courthouse instead of jail? I don't think so.
All the adults had a good laugh when the kids told them they took the hang glider and went looking for Flyer, weathered the storm in the tent overnight, and then went to the museum--all during a hurricane. That reaction was so unrealistic. They're glad the kids were safe, but you would be mad at them for doing those things and worried, not getting a kick out of the crazy story. Mimi even said "it's so wild and crazy it should be in a book!" Very funny. It is in a book. I hate things like that. An author in real life writing her real self as a character who is an author comes up with an idea for the book and then comments on said idea being so crazy it should be in a book. What is going on here with these ideas?
The crime was so confusing I did not understand it in any way. Which means it didn't make sense. Papa was arrested for stealing Flyer. Okay. His tools from his plane were the ones used to break into Joe's tent. Then the next day the police realize Papa's plane was broken into and his toolbox stolen. The police came to this brilliant conclusion because they found the toolbox with Joe's tools in it and Papa's fingerprints. The grand explanation was that Papa was a stranger--even though he was working with Joe--and they were his fingerprints. That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Papa was off the hook until they find who stole Flyer...which didn't make any sense. Why was he let free now and don't you mean he's still a suspect unless they find who stole Flyer? Why would he be a suspect when they find out who really took Flyer? Unnecessary drama and a hole so big you can fly Flyer through it.
Orville and Wilbur didn't finish high school. They sold toys they made to make money.
The night of the ball, they were left with a sitter who mentioned different Wright events. Christina thought she knew where Flyer was just from that, but she wouldn't tell any of the other kids. I hate when one character withholds info like the other characters don't deserve to know. I know it keeps the suspense for readers that way it's a surprise, but you can still say that she told them without telling us what she said. It's not a one-person show and Christina had too much of the spotlight.
When I found out Flyer had been turned into a windmill I felt like shaking my head. It was outlandish. Grant had watched a show where kids used junk to turn into things, and that's how Charlotte knew that Flyer had been used to make a windmill at the women's cottage, because the adults had said there was no windmill there.
They knocked on the door and the women ran out the back door and got in their jeep. It almost made me laugh.
There was a picture of the kids watching the plane be reassembled. Wouldn't a better shot be of the plane?? It's decisions like this that brought this soo far down.
They reassembled the Flyer in that short amount of time before the event began, and got it going right in the nick of time. It was an eye-roll moment.
There was a dramatic scene in which a dark car pulled up and a man with a microphone in his ear told them to get in. What is up with this writing? That's all I could wonder. The First Lady and President of the United States were in the car and they got to ride with them and go to an event for dignitaries and Joe was honored for building the Flyer. So outrageous. Then it's cut off and it's the next morning. Good idea to not cover what happened...
I waited the whole book to learn what was up with these stupid women, and all I got were 2 sentences. They were mad about the celebration and "It seems they thought that their ancestors from that era had been shunned instead of being invited to participate."
What? That's it? That's all you can come up with? And she didn't even know if they were going to be punished. So grandpa goes off in handcuffs but the real people who stole it get off with nothing.
I just can’t believe what I just read. It was so far-fetched, and when I got done I literally said "That was so stupid." I had the same issues with the Biltmore one, a crazy, impossible mystery with kids getting the run of the whole place, which you would not, could not, in real life. How much enjoyment are we going to get out of a mystery that is impossible to happen? But at least that one had some suspects and we wondered who had done it, had a tense, suspenseful moment. This had nothing. The only thing it offered were interesting facts about NC history. The rest was boring, uninteresting, stupid, outrageous and unrealistic. I'm afraid to read any more if the stories are this ridiculous.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 4, 2011
Siblings Christina and Grant have the enviable opportunity to visit Kitty Hawk for the 100th anniversary of the first flight. While in North Carolina, the model airplane that will be used in the demonstration is stolen. The children set out to solve the mystery and save their family's reputation.
This series is called "Real Kids, Real Places" and yet I still found it so unbelievable. The dialogue didn't seem natural to me. On the plus side, I actually didn't figure out the mystery until Christina did, which is strange for me. I don't know if I'll read more in this series.
This series is called "Real Kids, Real Places" and yet I still found it so unbelievable. The dialogue didn't seem natural to me. On the plus side, I actually didn't figure out the mystery until Christina did, which is strange for me. I don't know if I'll read more in this series.
March 28, 2013
I'm sorry-this is the 2nd book of this "series" that I have read and I don't like them. The story line is so unbelievable, especially when you look at the pictures of the children involved in the story. 4 kids are left alone in a tent during a hurricane? Really? And the "culprits" are not punished?
I will put it on my bookshelf and see what my 5th graders think.
"Four real kids attending the Centennial of Flight celebration in Kitty Hawk find themselves racing through aviation history to find a missing plane-but is it really missing?"
I will put it on my bookshelf and see what my 5th graders think.
"Four real kids attending the Centennial of Flight celebration in Kitty Hawk find themselves racing through aviation history to find a missing plane-but is it really missing?"
September 16, 2013
Not good from start to finish. Stilted, lame dialogue, ridiculous situations and a "solution" to the mystery that came out of nowhere and for which there were NO clues given throughout the story. Marsh is clearly passionate about history and the best passages where when she was lecturing her grandchildren about the history behind the "mystery". She should just stick to non-fiction.
October 5, 2011
I read this with my son after a summer family trip to Kitty Hawk. It was a nice read to enjoy with a kid.
August 7, 2013
This book was very exciting.
April 12, 2016
The kids and I read this book when we were studying the Wright Brothers for our "Science of Flight" unit.
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