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Product Description: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the newest board-book addition to the Everything Goes series of picture books, board books, and I Can Reads.Follow a flock of birds as they travel across the sky and encounter all kinds of awesome flying vehicles!The littlest fans of helicopters, jets, and blimps will absolutely love this book...read more

Hardcover:

9780061958168 | Board book edition (Balzer & Bray, October 29, 2013), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: It's a bird!

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Product Description: The sheep in this story is a dreamer, while her friend the wolf has a more practical disposition. One day the sheep runs to the wolf with an idea. She wants to build a flying machine! But the wolf tells her it's impossible. Eventually, however, the sheep's dream gets the better of the wolf's doubts, and they begin to work on the project together...read more
By Marco Trevisan (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781926973913 | Owlkids, August 13, 2013, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The sheep in this story is a dreamer, while her friend the wolf has a more practical disposition.

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Product Description: With these easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, young readers learn how to quickly assemble and safely operate their brand new JETT-pup (Junior Electrospheric Time Traveler). Once they get the awesome, kid-operated machine bolted together, young readers will be able to fly faster than the speed of light — do barrel rolls and barnstorming, hover slowly and lazily around the neighborhood, or go and buzz the school building...read more

Hardcover:

9780982613726, titled "Jett-Pup: Junior Electrospherical Time Traveler" | Pgw, June 7, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: With these easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, young readers learn how to quickly assemble and safely operate their brand new JETT-pup (Junior Electrospheric Time Traveler).

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Product Description: In the years and decades following the Wright Brothers' famous first flight, an obsession with aviation gripped the nation. Thousands caught the bug. In an era of innovation and invention, scores of people pursued their own personal dreams of building a flying machine, and many did so right in their own backyards...read more

School and Library:

9780399250415 | Putnam Pub Group, May 14, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In the years and decades following the Wright Brothers' famous first flight, an obsession with aviation gripped the nation.

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Paperback:

9780312428723 | Original edition (Picador USA, March 3, 2009), cover price $18.00

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Conor Broekhart was born to fly. Or, more accurately, he was born flying. Little wonder he became what he became. In an age of discovery and invention, many dreamed of flying, but for Conor flight was more than just a dream, it was his destiny. In one dark night on the island of Great Saltee, a cruel and cunning betrayal destroyed his life and stole his future. Now Conor must win the race for flight, to save his family and to right a terrible wrong...This is swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer, ideal for readers aged 10+.

Hardcover:

9781410408686 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 6, 2008), cover price $23.95 | also contains Airman | About this edition: Conor Broekhart was born to fly.
9780141383354 | Gardners Books, January 3, 2008, cover price $19.40 | also contains Airman | About this edition: Conor Broekhart was born to fly.

Paperback:

9781423107514 | Reprint edition (Disney Pr, May 5, 2009), cover price $8.99 | also contains Airman

School and Library:

9781423107507 | Disney Pr, January 2, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.

Prebinding:

9781439594155 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 21, 2009), cover price $16.99 | also contains Airman | About this edition: Conor Broekhart was born to fly.

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Conor Broekhart was born to fly. Or, more accurately, he was born flying. Little wonder he became what he became. In an age of discovery and invention, many dreamed of flying, but for Conor flight was more than just a dream, it was his destiny. In one dark night on the island of Great Saltee, a cruel and cunning betrayal destroyed his life and stole his future. Now Conor must win the race for flight, to save his family and to right a terrible wrong...This is swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer, ideal for readers aged 10+.

Hardcover:

9781410408686 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 6, 2008), cover price $23.95 | also contains Airman | About this edition: Conor Broekhart was born to fly.
9780141383354 | Gardners Books, January 3, 2008, cover price $19.40 | also contains Airman | About this edition: Conor Broekhart was born to fly.

Paperback:

9781423107514 | Reprint edition (Disney Pr, May 5, 2009), cover price $8.99 | also contains Airman

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739359747 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, December 26, 2007), cover price $44.00 | About this edition: In the 1890s, Conor Broekhart finds his life forever changed when he is falsely accused of organizing a military coup to overthrow the king and, thrown into jail, builds a glider and makes a daring escape--along with a cache of diamonds--to save his family.

Prebinding:

9781439594155 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 21, 2009), cover price $16.99 | also contains Airman | About this edition: Conor Broekhart was born to fly.

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In the sequel to Taking Off, teenager Peter Leroy describes his solo flight to New Mexico and back in the aerocycle he had built in his parents' garage, while, in parallel chapters, an adult Leroy details his odyssey with Albertine to retrace the Birdboy's original trip in a 1952 Alfa Romeo replica to reconnect with some of the eccentric characters he met during his original journey. 20,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780312363741 | St Martins Pr, July 24, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Teenager Peter Leroy describes his solo flight to New Mexico and back in the aerocycle he had built in his parents' garage, while, in parallel chapters, an adult Leroy details his odyssey with his wife to retrace his original trip.

Inventing a peculiar airship that he uses to escape the intellectually stultifying climate of Portugal, Bartolomeu Lourenço and his brother, Alexandre, travel the world in search of the truth, from the salons and bordellos of Ancien Régime Paris to the Polish kingdom of Stanislaus. A first novel. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780670034659 | Viking Pr, January 19, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: When Bartolomeu Lourenðco invents a peculiar airship to escape the government and religion of eighteenth-century Portugal, he and his brother, Alexandre, travel the world in search of scientific truth.

Paperback:

9780143038610 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 26, 2006), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Inventing a peculiar airship that he uses to escape the intellectually stultifying climate of Portugal, Bartolomeu Lourenço and his brother, Alexandre, travel the world in search of the truth, from the salons and bordellos of Ancien Régime Paris to the Polish kingdom of Stanislaus.

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Adam knows that he will be sent back to war-devastated Earth for not passing the citizen exam at school, so when a friend of his suggests they use a banned computer to build a machine to help them escape to a sanctuary, he agrees.

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9780734406965 | Lothian Books, August 1, 2005, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Adam knows that he will be sent back to war-devastated Earth for not passing the citizen exam at school, so when a friend of his suggests they use a banned computer to build a machine to help them escape to a sanctuary, he agrees.

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Pages from the recently discovered diary of Captain Manuel J. Arsenio record his many failed attempts to create a flying machine, starting in the 1780s with the Motocanary, progressing through the Aerial Submarine, the Hamstertronic, and sixty-seven other disasters.

Hardcover:

9780618507498 | Houghton Mifflin, May 2, 2005, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Pages from the recently discovered diary of Captain Manuel J.

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Originally published seventy-five years ago, an adventure tale by the creator of Raggedy Ann takes a girl and boy to an enchanted kingdom on the dark side of the moon, in a fine edition featuring twelve full-color plates.

Hardcover:

9780688141172 | Books of Wonder, April 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: When Johnny and Janey take off in their flying machine, Gran'ma and Gran'pa follow them to the 'Land Back of the Moon,' a place of magic and fantasy

Product Description: Because they hear the secret which one tower whispers to another, some animals fill balloons and begin to fly, others fly without balloons, but all learn what the secret is.
By Kveta Pacovska (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780756785321 | Diane Pub Co, November 30, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Because they hear the secret which one tower whispers to another, some animals fill balloons and begin to fly, others fly without balloons, but all learn what the secret is.
9781558584969 | North South Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Because they hear the secret which one tower whispers to another, some animals fill balloons and begin to fly, others fly without balloons, but all learn what the secret is

When Julian's attempts to fly to the Moon are unsuccessful he finds love back here on Earth

Hardcover:

9781558583061 | North South Books, December 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When Julian's attempts to fly to the Moon are unsuccessful he finds love back here on Earth

In the late nineteenth century, on a nighttime journey across the Texas countryside, thirteen-year-old Harlin meets the inventor of a strange airship and joins him in his flight from a greedy enemy.

Hardcover:

9780890158975 | Eakin Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In the late nineteenth century, on a nighttime journey across the Texas countryside, thirteen-year-old Harlin meets the inventor of a strange airship and joins him in his flight from a greedy enemy.

Paperback:

9780890159385 | Eakin Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $6.95

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Hardcover:

9780792719403 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, May 1, 1994), cover price $18.95

Paperback:

9780792719397 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, May 1, 1994), cover price $17.95

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When twelve-year-old Albert Halperin inherits a thousand dollars, he purchases a zephyrcar--a flying saucer-like vehicle that speeds up his paper route but causes a lot of commotion. Reprint. AB.
By Dee Derosa (illustrator) and Thomas Sant

Hardcover:

9780525673026 | Lodestar Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When twelve-year-old Albert inherits a thousand dollars from an uncle, he decides that what he needs most is a zephyrcar--a flying machine that skims over the ground--to help him deliver papers on his morning route.

Paperback:

9780440408147 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, July 1, 1993), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: When twelve-year-old Albert inherits a thousand dollars from an uncle, he decides that what he needs most is a zephyrcar--a flying machine that skims over the ground--to help him deliver papers on his morning route.

Dogma Barker sets off to deliver her flying shoes to the queen, but Cattails the sneak thief tries to steal them from her

Hardcover:

9780688106959 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, March 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Dogma Barker sets off to deliver her flying shoes to the queen, but Cattails the sneak thief tries to steal them from her

Library:

9780688106966 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, March 1, 1992, cover price $14.93 | About this edition: Dogma Barker sets off to deliver her flying shoes to the queen, but Cattails the sneak thief tries to steal them from her

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Herbert Binns is such a clever mouse that some of the other animals are jealous of his talents and plot to sabotage his new invention, a flying tricycle.

Paperback:

9780803707399 | Reprint edition (Dial Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Herbert Binns is such a clever mouse that some of the other animals are jealous of his talents and plot to sabotage his new invention, a flying tricycle.

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