"The Jerrie Mock Story is the rewarding tale of a feisty woman who
not only followed her dream, but made it happen." - Dorothy S.
Cochrane, curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum In
this biography for middle-grade readers, Nancy Roe Pimm tells the
story of Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo
around the world. In her trusty Cessna, The Spirit of Columbus-also
known as Charlie-she traveled from Columbus, Ohio, on an eastward
route that totaled nearly twenty-three thousand miles and took
almost a month. Overcoming wind, ice, mechanical problems, and
maybe even sabotage, Mock persevered. Mock caught the aviation bug
at seven years old, when she rode in a Ford Trimotor plane with her
parents. In high school, she displayed a talent for math and
science, and she was the only woman in her aeronautical engineering
classes at Ohio State University. Although she then settled into
domestic life, she never lost her interest in flying. What began as
a joking suggestion from her husband to fly around the world
prompted her to pursue her childhood dream. But the dream became a
race, as another woman, Joan Merriam Smith, also sought to be the
first to circle the globe. Even though Mock beat Smith and
accomplished what her heroine Amelia Earhart had died trying to do,
her feat was overshadowed by the Vietnam War and other world
events. Now, Pimm introduces Mock to a new generation of
adventurers.
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