0439229529 3 audio cassettes, some superficial wear to the clamshell enclosure. These books-on-cassette give students access to grade-level literature with the support they need to enjoy and learn from it. A narrator reads the text and models fluent reading, while a coach models the strategies and habits that good readers use. Students follow along in the print version of the book. The Audio Library features 4 novels with accompanying audio recordings. All her life, Amelia Earhart loved adventure. As a child growing up in the early 1900s?a time when most girls were encouraged to play quietly indoors?Earhart was always active. She played football, rode horses, went sledding, and invented machines that included a chicken trap and her own roller coaster. That sense of adventure stayed with Earhart as she grew up. Her early career plans included social work and medicine. Then, at about age 23, Amelia Earhart took her first ride in an airplane.That's when Earhart discovered the vocation to which she would devote the rest of her life. She immediately signed up for flying lessons?and went on to become one of the great pioneers of aviation. This biography details Amelia Earhart's unusual childhood, her many record-setting flights, and the events surrounding her mysterious disappearance over the Pacific Ocean.