Amelia Earhart was around long before my time, but after reading this book I feel like her story happened just recently. Back in the early 1900’s women were not known to be adventuresome and therefore one forgets about the time period when reading this book. Amelia was an extremely significant woman who achieved great success and paved the way for women who came along after her.

Born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, Amelia was a daredevil by the age of 7. She built a “roly” consisting of two-by-four planks for the tracks and roller skates nailed to shorter boards. This was then affixed to the roof of a shed and extended to the ground. (I find it interesting that a child of seven years of age could have the means and the know how to build a “roly” with the help of only her sister and a neighborhood boy.) This clearly demonstrates the fact that Amelia was not an ordinary child but rather someone with a vision and great things to come.

This book does a good job of showing Amelia’s life as a pioneer. She was a very spirited girl, and she didn’t accept the explanation that girls just shouldn’t do things simply

Some of those theories are that Amelia was a on a spy mission authorized by President Roosevelt and was captured, that she purposely dove her aircraft into the Pacific and that they were captured by the Japanese. Another theory is that Amelia lived for years on an island in the South Pacific with a native fisherman. Researches believe that the plane ran out of fuel and that Earhart and Noonan died at sea.

because they were girls. This is demonstrated in the fact that the neighborhood boy thought he should go first on the “roly” because he was a boy. Amelia refused and went first cutting her lip on the landing but nevertheless saw her project to fruition.

The author describes Amelia as almost reckless in one way or another on most flights. Her navigator was a drunk, on more than one occasion she left for a trip in between weather systems instead of postponing and she even refused state of the art navigation equipment and communication radios. The media had a hay day with these stories and the public became numb to the number of pilots trying to break records. Nevertheless, Amelia managed to accomplish many great things despite some negative publicity and overall became a role model for young girls and women alike.

As the book goes on, her drastic stunts just get more and more daring, which keeps you involved and interested in the book. Amelia is widely known for her attempt to be the first woman to fly around the world following the equator line. Her dis

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