Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Grace, an aspiring young journalist, is excited when Amelia Earhart arrives in her town of Trepassey, Newfoundland, on June 4, 1928. Earhart wants to become the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air. Grace is there to see them--and to receive Earhart's telegram announcing their arrival in Ireland after twenty hours and forty minutes in flight.

"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.

A military epic that chronicles the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, a Foundation of Honor. The arduous training of America's future leaders as they prepare to serve, from the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of the Middle East. The Cadet is an accurate, historical saga of the Academy, populated with sympathetic, larger-than-life characters and immersed in rich period details.

An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.