Skies over Sweetwater: a novel
Friendship stories, Historical fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Science and technology
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Summary
Bernadette (Byrd) Thompson is 18, the year is 1944, and she is about to fulfill her lifelong dream: leave Iowa and become a pilot. She is joining the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in Sweetwater, Texas to learn to fly… bombers, pursuits, trainers, and utility planes. She meets Cornelia, Sadie and Opal and the four of them struggle to master handling planes and meeting life's challenges. 2008. Unrated