American Heroes of Exploration and Flight

by Anne E. Schraff

A collection of biographies of ten American adventurers including Robert Peary, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong, and Christa McAuliffe

112 pages, Library Binding

First published February 1, 1996

About the author

Anne Elaine Schraff grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University at Northridge and taught high school for ten years.

Anne paid her way through college by writing short stories for magazines. Since college she has written hundreds of stories and over eighty books including historical fiction, biographies, science books, and her favorite, fictional books for young people. She is published as both Anne Schraff and Anne E. Schraff.

Her background, which she describes as "multicultural, lower middle-class neighborhood, including African Americans, Mexican Americans, Arab Americans, and Filipino Americans," is her greatest inspiration when writing.

Reviews

[Salim Benssy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book “American Heroes of Exploration and Flight” was a great book that mainly talked about the famous heroes in outer space that explored several planets and new places. All the men and women in the book were American Heroes of the twentieth century. Some of them explored the Moon and space others explored the North and South Poles. Such as the Wright brothers who both bulled together the first airplane. Neil Armstrong who was the first human being to walk on the Moon. Finally, Sally Ride who was the first American women in space. I named these three persons who were one of the bests in all space life, they thought as several things such as the moon, airplanes and many other important things in outer space.

The content of my book is related to career in science for several reasons. First, it talks about different jobs in space and in exploration. Second, it talks about famous jobs in space, such as astronauts and pilots in space. The content of my book is related with what we did a little bit in class because it talks about the different kind of planets and the asteroids and comets that crashed in some planets and planes. The branch of science that my book falls on is space because the book mostly speaks about career in space, astraunots that have discovered space and different planets.



This book was a great book for me and I would want to especially recommend starting fifth grade boys and girls no matter the genre. I would also recommend it to kids and adults that are really interested about space and flight in space, and kids who would want to be one day an astronaut or a pilot in space.