At the moment I'm reading Charles A. Lindbergh's autobiographical Spirit of St. Louis as sort of a preview for my 6th-grader. We homeschool and some of the recommendations on our curriculum's list are somewhat strange. This is a great book (so far) and is likely to make a huge (and positive) impression on our son. The reason for the pre-read is Lindbergh's introduction to some other book (I forget which, it was about Apollo 11?) in which he gets really spacey (metaphysically, not NASA) and we wanted to make sure this one wasn't full of nonsense but really discussed his building of the Spirit of St. Louis team and his attempt to fly nonstop across the Atlantic (NY to Paris) and so far, it does so quite well.
Also being read are several back issues of
