Interest Level
Grades 3 - 7
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: Not Available
Lexile Measure®: 750
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: Not Available
Genre
- Biography and Autobiography
- General Nonfiction
- Dictionaries
- Series
Theme/Subject
- American History
- Aviation
- Determination and Perseverance
- Siblings
About This Book
"Success four flights Thursday..."On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright sent a telegram to their father. Its simple message told of the brothers' historic flights at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. For the very first time, a person flew in a heavier-than-air machine. In the years that followed, the Wright brothers' fame grew as they shared their new invention with the world.
Readers will discover the Wright brothers' lives by reading and seeing Orville and Wilbur's own letters, notebooks, and diaries. Kids will hear the brothers' story as if they were really there!
About the Authors or Illustrators
George Sullivan published his first nonfiction children's book in 1961 and has since written more than 100 books on a wide variety of subjects, from sports to politics to history.
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