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First Flight

First Flight

by George Shea, George Shea

1996Juvenile literatureAeronauticsBiographyWright brothers, juvenile literatureAeronautics, juvenile literature
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About this book

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.

Themes & subjects

Juvenile literatureAeronauticsBiographyWright brothers, juvenile literatureAeronautics, juvenile literatureWright, orville, 1871-1948
First published 1996

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Setting

United States

About the author

George Shea

1826 – 1895

Authors

George Shea, George Shea

First published

1996

Pages

46

Read time

≈ 1h

Editions

11

Language

English

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN

9780606113304

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