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Amelia Earhart Book Review: Amelia Earhart by Carol Ann Pearce. Makers of America, 1988. 157 pages. Amelia Earhart was around long before my time, but after reading this book I feel like her story happened just recently. Back in the early 1900’s women were not known to be adventuresome and therefore one forgets about the time period when reading this book. Amelia was an extremely significant woman who achieved great success and paved the way for women who came along after her. Born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, Amelia was a daredevil by the age of 7. She built a “roly” consisting of two-by-four planks for the tracks and roller skates nailed to shorter boards. This was then affixed to the roof of a shed and extended to the ground. (I find it interesting that a child of seven years of age could have the means and the know how to build a “roly” with the help of only her sister and a neighborhood boy.) This clearly demonstrates the fact that Amelia was not an ordinary child but rather someone with a vision and great things to come. This book does a good job of showing Amelia’s amelia, earhart, book, women, woman, time, fly, one, flying, first, go, became, years, way, things, roly, reading, pacific, over, ocean, learn, just, interesting, great, girls, flight, boy, believe, atlantic, after, about, wanted, united, two, took