Violet the Pilot

I really loved the beautiful illustrations by the author. Especially the one with Violet sitting in the Radio Flyer wagon that she adapted into a flying machine and when she is doing a test flight of The Hornet by making loop de loops. A wonderful book that would appeal to both girl and boy

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readers. 4 stars.

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Review: From the time she was little, Violet had always had a love of fixing and building things. Her favorite things to build, in her Dad's junkyard, were flying machines. Children at school would make fun of Violet, but she creates a magnificent flying machine that is bound to win at the airplane

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show. But Violet must decide if winning a competition is more important than saving the lives of the shipwrecked boy scouts she flies over.

Genre: Violet the Pilot is an example of realistic fiction/fantasy. It is an example of realistic fiction because the characters are believable in the ways they interact with each other. For instance the part where the children at school are making fun of Violet is a scene that you could see in any schoolyard, because you will always find children that will always pick on other kids who are different than them. The part of the story that contributed to this being classified as fantasy was, the fact that Violet was able to create the planes and other flying machines out of materials from the junkyard and fly them great distances was unrealistic and unbelievable.

Plot: This book had a great example of a plot that had rising and falling actions that helped to create an intriguing climax. The story builds up to Violet flying to the air show to enter her plane. The climax is that she sees below her a troop of Boy Scouts who have fallen out of their boat and are in danger. She must decide if she misses her show to save them. In the falling actions that follow the climax, Violet saves the troop and takes them to the hospital. At home, she is sad that she missed the show, but is greeted by a whole host of people that honor her for her bravery.

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A super cute book about Violet who started building her unique and amazing inventions beginning at the age of two. Violet builds not just every day items, but creative and unique inventions, mostly inventions that fly. Despite bullying from kids at school (Claude and Clyde Mulrooney), Violet

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decides to build another plane to fly in the local air show. She builds her best invention yet, but on her way to the show she rescues a group of Boy Scouts and misses the show. Although devastated to not participate in the race, she is surprised to be awarded a medal of valor and her mother's permission to fly whenever she wanted (if she wears a sweater). I really liked this book. It was funny, awesome illustrations and good story and I think that children would love to sit and read this on their own or have it read as a read aloud for fun. It was just a good-natured book.

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This book is a great fantasy book with a strong female lead who enjoys doing stuff that is normally thought of as being a man's job. She enjoys fixing things and engineers her own plane. She is bullied at school for not being like the other kids. Violet decides one day that she is going to enter

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the air show. She spends all her spare time working out of her father's junk yard to build her own plane. While flying to the air show Violet notices a troop of boy scouts whose canoe overturned in the river. Violet chooses to save the troop of boys and misses her air show. She is very sad that she wasn't able to win a medal from the air show. One night the mayor and a bunch of people from her town, including the boy scouts, show up at her house hand her a medal of honor for her bravery.

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In this Modern Fantasy, a young girl named violet was not like the rest of her classmates. Instead of playing games, she would be building things. This quirk made it hard for her to have friends. In fact, all of the students in her class made fun of her. But when she found out about an air show,

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she decided to build an airplane to enter into the competition. When she finishes building it, she takes it on a test run. During the test, she sees a group of scouts out on the river rapids. She saves them all and brings them to the hospital. Unfortunetley, this made her miss her race. She was very sad until everyone in the town called her a hero for saving the scouts!

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Violet was always known to be odd in this realist fiction book . She started at a very young age being mechanically inclined unlike the rest of the girls in their town. She even put an engine on her little brothers tricycle! Violet's creating grew to much greater things and she started building her

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own versions of airplanes that could actually fly. Although she thought her inventions were cool, kids at school bullied her. Then one day, she saw there was an air show coming up and figured if she won it maybe the other students would not tease her anymore. Violet then began crafting her aircraft, the Hornet. On her way to the air she saw a group of boy scouts needing to be rescued and she knew she had to help. After rescuing them she realized she had missed the air show and became disappointed. However, that night a crowd of people gathered around her front door cheering as she received an award for saving the troop. This book would be appropriate for primary grades.

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Realistic fiction. This story is about a girl named Violet but she isn't like many other girls. She spends her time looking for supplies from her dad's junk yard to build flying machines. While most girls play with dolls and girly stuff Violet plays with wrenches and gets dirty. All of the kids at

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her school make fun of her because they say she is a nerd. One day when she was walking home she sees a sign that was for the air show, she was going to enter. She spent time working on her plane and the day finally came. As she was getting ready to head to the show she was flying over a river and notice a troop of Boy Scouts had fallen in the water and needed help. She stopped and saved them all and dropped them off at the hospital, but by doing that she missed the show. She went back home and was sitting sadly in her room. Then there was a knock on the door, the mayor had came to give her the medal of valor as a token of gratitude for saving the Boy Scouts. She kept flying the skies after that.

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Fantasy book about a girl who loves to invent. She eventually invents a plane and gets awarded for her good deed.

This is an awesome picture book that tells a story about Violet, who is a mechanical genius and loves building all kinds of machines like flying contraptions. There’s one day when she was going to take part in an air show, she found some soldiers in dangerous and she chosen to rescue them instead

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of taking part in an air show, which let she became a little hero and knew by a lot of people. All in all, this realism story uses water colored pictures to tell children they should help others especially when they in troubles.

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Summary: this book is about a sweet little girl who is bullied by her classmates because she is different than everyone else. She is a genius who is building an aeroplane to win an award to make her classmates like her. When it comes to the time of the show she gets stopped along the way because

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some boy scouts are in danger of going over a waterfall. She saves them but isn't able to make it to the show. She is really sad and heads home. That night the mayor and city show up on her doorstep to give her a prize.

Use: To teach about bullying, to introduce a lesson about invention.

Media: Colored Pencil

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This is a wonderful little book about a little girl who is very interested in inventing and flying, and wants to win a prize for flying, but ends up winning a prize for rescuing people instead. This would be a good level for a third or fourth grader to read, with some new words that they might not

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have known before. There are a couple of pages that show a picture sequence and only tell what happened at the beginning and end, and all the pictures throughout the book go along very nicely with the story, so the reader can tell what is going on at all times, even maybe glean the meaning of a new word form the pictures.

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