Looks at the life of Betty Greene, a World War II WASP pilot who helped create the Mission Aviation Fellowship, an organization that provides aviation services and humanitarian aid to missionaries and villages around the world.

"John Robert Greene traces Betty Ford's problems and triumphs from her childhood through her husband's entire political career, including his controversial presidency, which thrust her into an unrelenting media spotlight. He then tells how she confronted her personal demons, and became a symbol of courage for women throughout the nation."--BOOK JACKET.

Inspiring children's Christian biography of Betty Greene, whose dream to fly and to be a missionary came true.

The story of an inspirational woman Courage and valor in the face of danger Part of the Trailblazers biography series

In America in the Sixties, Greene goes beyond the clichés and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Greene sketches the well-known players of the period—John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Betty Friedan—bringing each to life with subtle detail. He introduces the reader to lesser-known incidents of the decade and offers fresh and persuasive insights on many of its watershed events. Combining an engrossing narrative with intelligent analysis, America in the Sixties enriches our understanding of that pivotal era.

When the train pulls into the station in Jenkensville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen senses something exciting is going to happen. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp. To the rest of the town these prisoners are only Nazis, but to Patty, a young Jewish girl with a turbulent home life, one of the young soldiers becomes an unlikely friend. Anton understands her in a way her parents never could and Patty is willing to lose her own family, friends and even freedom for a boy who becomes the most important part of her life.

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A suggestion from her mother leads Sophie to befriend the new girl at school and an elderly, grouchy woman, and helps her overcome the feeling that she is not good at anything.

"Children, parents, and teachers love the adventurous Christian Heroes: Then & Now biographies and unit study curriculum guides. Now the Heroes for Young Readers series introduces children ages 6 and up to the lives of Christian Heroes with rhyming text and vivid full-color illustrations. WWII veteran Betty Greene (1920-1997) combined her love of flying with her love for Christ by helping found the Mission Aviation Fellowship, which still uses airplanes to take the gospel around the world.

En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair. A sequel to "Summer of My German Soldier."