W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Airborne! /

Glover, David, 1953 Sept. 4-

Airborne! / by David Glover and Charlie Showell. - Don Mills, Ont. : Pearson Education Canada, c2005. - 40 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. ports. ; 24 cm. - Reaching readers. Information texts .

"Text type: Explanation" --Cover p. [4]. "Content area: Science : energy and control/structures andmechanisms [i.e. and mechanisms]" --Cover p. [4]. "Guided reading level: W-X" --Cover p. [4]. "DRA level: 50-60" --Cover p. [4]. Includes index.

From hot-air balloons and early airships to hang-gliders and sailplanes, people have been trying to achieve free flight for centuries. Airborne gives readers a glimpse of the many marvelous flying machines of the past and those being developed today.

0131274260 9780131274266

20060166495


Flight--Juvenile literature.
Aeronautics--Juvenil literature.

629.13 GLO