Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Roaring Brook Press, publisher.

Description

1. 127 pages : black and white illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

1. Presents a brief biography of the sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
2. "On a chill December day in 1903, a young woman came home from her teaching job in Dayton, Ohio, to find a telegram waiting for her. The woman was Katharine Wright; the telegram, from her brother Orville, announced the first successful airplane flight in history. In this, the first authoritative biography of the Wright brothers' sister, Richard Maurer tells Katharine's story. Smart and well-educated, she was both confidant and caregiver to her bachelor brothers, managing many of their affairs, traveling with them on frequent trips to demonstrate and promote their invention, and caring for them when they were sick from disease and injury. In doing so, she gave up her ambitions as a teacher and her early hopes of marriage. Only in middle age, when the Wrights' fame and fortune were secure, did she find personal happiness, with a man she had met years before in college--something that was to cost her the affection of her surviving brother Orville, who had come to depend on her, and who disowned her after her marriage."-Amazon.com

Subject

1. Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929 > Juvenile literature
2. Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 > Juvenile literature
3. Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 > Juvenile literature
4. Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929
5. Wright, Orville, 1871-1948
6. Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
7. Sisters > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
8. Air pilots > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
9. Air pilots
10. Sisters
11. United States

Genre/Form

1. Biographies
2. Juvenile works
3. Biographies.

Contents

1. December 17, 1903 -- Taking off -- Journey -- Arrival.

Call number

1. JFD 23-2167

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125) and index.

Audience (note)

1. Ages: 10-14

Author

1. Maurer, Richard, 1950- author.

Title

1. The Wright sister : Katharine Wright and her famous brothers / Richard Maurer.

Publisher

1. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2016.

Copyright date

1. ©2003.

Edition

1. First Square Fish edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125) and index.

Audience

1. Grades: 5-9
2. Ages: 10-14

Added author

1. Roaring Brook Press, publisher.

ISBN

1. 125007343X paperback
2. 9781250073433 paperback

Research call number

1. JFD 23-2167