The Story of Amelia Earhart Lost Star

Lost Star The Story of Amelia Earhart is a biography written by Patricia Lauber about this wonderful woman who made a change in American history. It has thirteen chapters, one section of further reading, and one index. Although it's for children, Lauber gives us a lot of information of Amelia's life since her parents' meeting and the different locations where her family lived. Grandparents Otis were close to her and her sister too. Amelia and her sister Muriel were unusual girls who really loved doing “boys' activities” to the point their mother made bloomers for them. Amelia's family moved to Des Moines, Iowa in 1908, where her father worked as head of claims department and money was more than enough. By then, hard times began since Edwin spent time with co-workers and drank in excess. After some problems due to his alcohol addiction, he moved to Kansas City while Amy and daughters lived in Chicago. Amelia attended Hyde Park School due to her interest in science. In December 1917, she spent Christmas in Canada with her sister; after watching disabled men, she became a nurse in a Toronto hospital for veterans. Amelia entered Columbia University to study medical research; however, she was required by her parents to go to Los Angeles where she met Sam Chapman, a dear friend of her. Wartime fliers gave lessons to earn money and Amelia attended them. Her first job was in the mail of telephone company to pay those lessons. In 1921, she went up to 5000 feet and landed. She bought a second-hand plane after her family sold the Otis House on Quality Hill. In 1924, her parents agreed to divorce, and Amy and daughters moved to the East Coast. Amelia sold her plane and returned to New York City and Columbia to study Physics as well as she became a social worker at Denison House where she met people from other countries. She joined an aviation company and flew when she could. In April 1928, she was asked to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean. She was the right choice to do it; so, she did as captain of the flight, with Bill Stultz and Slim Gordon as mechanic of the mission. They flew the Friendship and after a flight of twenty hours and forty minutes they arrived in Wales. On May 20, 1932, she took off and completed a flight of fourteen hours and fifty-six minutes. She was a great friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife. Fred Noonan was asked by Amelia to flight with her all around the world, they headed for Puerto Rico and continued to Venezuela, Dutch Guiana, Brazil, the coast of West Africa, Karachi, Calcutta, Burma, Thailand, New Guinea, and their destination was Lowland in the Pacific Ocean where they got lost. There is incorrect information from “witnesses” who mentioned they saw them in Japanese islands as prisoners; therefore, we'll never know what really happened to them. This biography is highly recommendable for every kind of reader.