Title: Lighter than air
Description: Behold the story of Sophie Blanchard, an extraordinary woman who is largely forgotten despite her claim to being the very first female pilot in history. In eighteenth-century France, "balloonomania" has fiercely gripped the nation . . . but all of the pioneering aeronauts are men. The job of shattering that myth falls to a most unlikely figure: a shy girl from a seaside village, entirely devoted to her dream of flight.
Subjects: Women balloonists, Juvenile literature, Balloonists, History, Women in aeronautics, Women, biography, juvenile literature, France, juvenile literature
Places: France
People: Marie-Madeleine-Sophie Armand Blanchard (1778-1819)
Time periods: 18th century