Jack Knight's Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the US Air Mail Service (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781684379811)

High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process.

When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail.

For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race.

But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?

Author: Jill Esbaum
ISBN-10: 1684379814
ISBN-13: 9781684379811
Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 11.20h x 10.30w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 517261 / Jack Knight's Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the U.S. Air Mail Service


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2021
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2022
Booklist 02/15/2022 pg. 44
School Library Journal 03/01/2022 pg. 120
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2022 pg. 161
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2022 - Superior,Well Above Average