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Genre/Form: | Biography Juvenile works Biographies High interest-low vocabulary books Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature Biographies Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Named Person: | Orville Wright; Wilbur Wright; Orville Wright; Wilbur Wright; Orville Wright; Wilbur Wright; Orville Wright; Wilbur Wright |
Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George Shea; Don Bolognese |
ISBN: | 0060245034 9780060245030 0060245042 9780060245047 0064442152 9780064442152 |
OCLC Number: | 32430908 |
Notes: | "An I can read Chapter book." |
Description: | 46 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | 1900 -- The next day -- 1901 -- 1902 -- 1903 -- The same day. |
Responsibility: | story by George Shea ; pictures by Don Bolognese. |
More information: |
Abstract:
A twelve-year-old boy named Tom Tate meets Orville and Wilbur Wright and witnesses the invention of the airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

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This is a early reader that narrates the story of the airplane's invention through the eyes of Tom Tate, an assistant to the Wright Brothers over the course of several years. The illustrations are evocative of the time period. and the story reads well. Chapter divisions make sense with the story....
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This is a early reader that narrates the story of the airplane's invention through the eyes of Tom Tate, an assistant to the Wright Brothers over the course of several years. The illustrations are evocative of the time period. and the story reads well. Chapter divisions make sense with the story. I like it .
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by marie99 updated 2009-12-17