Amelia Earhart, the first woman pilot to ever fly across the Atlantic Ocean. The brave, determined, headstrong, daring Amelia Earhart. We know her today as the pilot who disappeared while flying across the world. How did she disappear? Well, no one really knows for sure, but there are theories of what happened to her. But as you look into this biography, you will learn about the life of Amelia Earhart.
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24th, 1897. She was always very intelligent, even as a young girl. She started crawling, walking, and talking at an earlier age. When she was the age of three, she was sent to live with her grandmother because her parents were very busy. Her mother, Amy Earhart was very busy taking care of Amelia’s new baby sister and Edwin Earhart , was a lawyer which prevented him from being home often. Although, they cared very much for Amelia, they didn’t have time to take care of her. Since her grandmother had suffered from many family death’s she needed something to keep it off her mind so taking care of Amelia would be a good distraction.
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Even as a young child, Amelia Earhart was very intelligent. She moved away to Iowa with her parents when her father got a new job there. He did well at this job, but soon he began to slip through the cracks and eventually became an alcoholic, while Amelia was in Iowa her grandparents passed away. Edwin lost his job and they had to move and they were forced to move to Minnesota. Here, Amelia attended St. Paul central high school.In Amelia’s schooling years she attended six different schools! That’s crazy! But she still managed to keep good grades and do good in school. In the year 1916 she went on to Ogontz which was an all women’s college. Here, Amelia finished out her school years. When she was a small child, she never was really impressed with airplanes, once she got to be a lot older she became a lot more interested in them. All because of a camp she went