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Engle, Margarita.
THE FLYING GIRL : HOW AIDA DE ACOSTA LEARNED TO SOAR
New York : Atheneum Books, 2018
IL K-3, RL 4.4
ISBN
978-1-48144-502-3

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Aida de Acosta saw the beautiful air ship flying in the sky in Paris and decided that she wanted to learn to fly.  In those days, women were not supposed to do things like that. But she was determined. She convinced the air ship's owner to teach her to fly. Alberto Santas-Dumont believed that all she needed was courage and the chance to try. And that she did. To the dismay of the women who saw her. They thought is shameful for a woman to fly. But she had inspired many of the children that day. As Aida say, "Sometimes all it takes to change the whole world is one wild dreamer's soaring example."


SUBJECTS:     Acosta, Aida de, 1884-1962.
                        Airships.
                        Biographies.
                        Picture books.
                        Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 1873-1932.
                        Women air pilots.
                        Women -- Biography.
                        Women in aeronautics -- History.

 
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