Tom Swift and His Sky Racer
or: ''The Quickest Flight on Record''
by Victor Appleton
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Tom Swift is the hero of five series of books. The genre is science fiction and adventure. The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer to emphasize science, invention and technology. Most of the books were ghost-written under the name Victor Appleton. The series began in 1910, and continues until today. In this book, Tom Swift enters an air race with a $10, 000 prize.
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Victor Appleton, American, Children, Children's, Kid's, YA, Young Adult, Juvenile, Series, Fiction, Fantasy, Classic, Literature, Books, Novels, Hardcover, Paperback, e-books, Pulp Fiction, Boys, Vintage Series, Adventure stories, Aviation, Aeronautics, Inventions, Creative minds, Swift, tom (fictitious character), fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Children's fictionTimes
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Tom Swift And His Sky Racer
October 2005, 1st World Library
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Tom Swift and His Sky Racer: or: ''The Quickest Flight on Record''
1911, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
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- 1st Grosset & Dunlap ed. 1911
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*Manufactured in the United States of America* / Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but his plans mysteriously disappear, which means Tom must redesign his new airplane from the beginning. A side-plot through the story is Mr. Swift's failing health.
Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading. These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good. This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".--LibraryThing
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