Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Gypsies of the Air

With a loud sputtering roar, something like Terry Mapes’ own feelings at that moment, _Skybird_, her little blue-and-gold airplane sprang forward and taxied over the flying field, taking the air gracefully as a leaping horse, under the guidance of its youthful pilot.

Chapters

5. CHAPTER V

Although Terry was confident that it would be an easy matter to escape from the old stone house, she soon saw her mistake. For the building was originally a trading post of the...

7. CHAPTER VII

The girls knew that Joe Arnold was an enemy far more dangerous than Bud Hyslop or Jim Heron, for he was their superior in brains and experience, and was quite as unscrupulous. J...

8. CHAPTER VIII

“No, that was Bud Hyslop’s little scheme to spoil my trip to Paris—At least I thought it was all Bud’s idea. But if Joe had a hand in it, then it’s no joke.”

4. CHAPTER IV

After a wakeful night in Harbor Grace the girls arose for an early start. It was scarcely dawn when Terry and Prim took off from the airport and headed toward the big rock from...

6. CHAPTER VI

Terry and Prim had been racking their brains, feverishly trying to plan some way of escape from their prison. But late that afternoon their hopes were dashed to the ground. Just...

2. CHAPTER II

Dick Mapes had started in as a flyer when the game was new. For years he had been an air mail pilot and then had established a field of his own for training and commercial flying.

3. CHAPTER III

High up near the clouds Terry kept her plane at top speed. Now that she was on her way to find Allan and Syd most of her nervousness left her. She was hopeful. She even expected...

1. CHAPTER I

With a loud sputtering roar, something like Terry Mapes’ own feelings at that moment, _Skybird_, her little blue-and-gold airplane sprang forward and taxied over the flying fiel...