Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart The first book I chose to write a review on for this week’s “nonfiction/informational” was Amelia Lost: The life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart.” by Candace Fleming. This book is written as a narrative, and tells the story of Amelia’s mysterious disappearance in 1937. Throughout this chapter book, we learn about Amelia;s early life, and her plans, her fame, as well as all of the search efforts that went out after her plane mysteriously disappeared. The protagonist, Amelia Earhart, discusses events from her childhood, all the way into her adulthood, mainly focusing on her education as well as her accomplishments in becoming the first female pilot! As for pictures in this story, they are all authentic and have a sort of vintage look to them, the photographs accurately describe the text within each page. This book can be read in multiple formats such as a hardcover, e-books, audio books, etc. I would consider some of the strong literary elements in this book to be how engaging the story line is, with how many people and techniques they had in search to find Amelia. Maybe some weaker points would have been that the timeline might be a tad bit confusing to newer readings, making it harder to follow. There are also more challenging vocabulary in this text that younger readers might need help on. For example, “aviatric” “navigator” and a couple more, that might stump new readers, who struggle to use context clues for definition. While looking for components and attributes that this story might hold about diversity, I do believe that female pilots are not as common as male, making that a talking point in the classroom, while discussing the ability of male and female roles! This book is appropriate for children ages 10-14, within grades 5th through 8th grade. This book has a ton of potential to be used in the classroom. For example, this book is based on true history, and real events. Therefore this book can be used to discuss the history of aviation, the role of women in history, etc.
The first book I chose to write a review on for this week’s “nonfiction/informational” was Amelia Lost: The life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart.” by Candace Fleming. This book is written as a narrative, and tells the story of Amelia’s mysterious disappearance in 1937. Throughout this chapter book, we learn about Amelia;s early life, and her plans, her fame, as well as all of the search efforts that went out after her plane mysteriously disappeared. The protagonist, Amelia Earhart, discusses events from her childhood, all the way into her adulthood, mainly focusing on her education as well as her accomplishments in becoming the first female pilot! As for pictures in this story, they are all authentic and have a sort of vintage look to them, the photographs accurately describe the text within each page. This book can be read in multiple formats such as a hardcover, e-books, audio books, etc. I would consider some of the strong literary elements in this book to be how engaging the story line is, with how many people and techniques they had in search to find Amelia. Maybe some weaker points would have been that the timeline might be a tad bit confusing to newer readings, making it harder to follow. There are also more challenging vocabulary in this text that younger readers might need help on. For example, “aviatric” “navigator” and a couple more, that might stump new readers, who struggle to use context clues for definition. While looking for components and attributes that this story might hold about diversity, I do believe that female pilots are not as common as male, making that a talking point in the classroom, while discussing the ability of male and female roles! This book is appropriate for children ages 10-14, within grades 5th through 8th grade. This book has a ton of potential to be used in the classroom. For example, this book is based on true history, and real events. Therefore this book can be used to discuss the history of aviation, the role of women in history, etc.