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A riveting middle-grade biography about Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to work as a professional aeronaut in France in the late 1700s, set against the thrill

Death comes for us all in the end. But it does not always come in a way you might expect. Throughout history there have been people who have suffered extraordin

Shares the life of the first female to work as a professional balloonist, making more than sixty ascents until 1819, when she became the first woman to die in a

“Smith tells Sophie’s inspiring story with a buoyant sense of wonder, fitting for a woman who was happiest in the air. Her accomplishments and passion for f

Award-winning journalist Sharon Wright presents a fascinating account of the fabulous eighteenth and nineteenth-century female pioneers of balloon flight. More