To touch the stars
By: by Karen Zeinert.
Series: Jamestown's American portraits
Publisher: Jamestown; McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincolnwood, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Fiction.; Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Juvenile fiction.; Women air pilots -- Fiction.; Air pilots, Military -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.; Sex role -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In 1943, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Erickson finds a way to support the war effort and realize her dream of becoming a pilot when she joins the Army's Women's Flying Training Detachment--later known as the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs).