Velva Jean (4 books in series)
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review 1: Like her previous books, this one is an entertaining romp, an adventure story with a girl heroine who is larger than life but still just the girl next door. The second half, the murder mystery tale, is all plot, action, and suspense -- with the requisite happy ending. But the fir...
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review 1: Very interesting story which made me want to look up what role the WASPS did during WW II. Velma Jean is sent to Europe, she is flying a b17 across the ocean to England, there she is only dot stay shortly and then fly back as a passenger but her real mission is to find her brothe...
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review 1: I learned a lot about the female WASP pilots. I am shocked by some of the things that were done to them by their own colleagues. I hope these stories weren't true. Besides learning to fly, Velva Jane learned to soar. She learned to become her own woman and that to do so, she had ...
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review 1: Not a bad book, but not one I would read again. A sweet growing-up story of a 1093's girl in a small mountain town whose mother dies and father disappears, the main issue with the book is a lack of plot. Growing up IS the story, and for me, that wasn't enough. The main character ...