Books like Touching the Sky by Trish Marx

In a world under alien attack, rebellious pilot Spensa dreams of flight, determined to join Flight School despite her father's disgrace. A hidden cavern may hold the key to her destiny.

Katherine Wright recounts her brothers' early fascination with flight, setting the stage for the history‑making achievement of the 1903 Wright Flyer.

Seventeen‑year‑old warrior Eelyn battles the rival Riki clan with her Aska kin, but her world turns upside down when she confronts a brother she thought dead on the battlefield.

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

A rhymed biography that follows the journey of the first African‑American aviator from childhood dreams in Texas cotton fields to the skies of her lifelong ambition.

A juvenile biography that traces the collaborative work of the Wright brothers as they develop the first machine‑powered aircraft.

In this illustrated chapter book aimed at students between the ages of 8 and 12, Donald J. Sobol recounts the story of Orville and Wilbur Wright, who made aviation history at Kitty Hawk. But before they make history, nothing seems to go right. Orville and Wilbur are almost ready to quit — almost ready to give up their lifelong dream of flying a powered machine. First the wind is too strong for their glider. Then they run out of money for more equipment. And now they are attacked by an army of mosquitoes! "Someday men will fly," Wilbur says, discouraged. "But it won't be in our lifetime." Remarkably, they don't give up. And on December 17th, 1903, on the sands of Kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers make history!

"The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. When most people today think of flying, they imagine tedious routines that involve security checkpoints, exorbitant baggage fees, shrinking legroom, and frustrating delays. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who gave up careers in academia and the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to re-imagine what we--both as pilots and as passengers--are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, the author vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries, above mountains, oceans, and deserts, through snow, wind, and rain, limning a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity which can afford us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form"--