I really enjoyed this book, about taking chances and believing in yourself. Cute ending too!

Listened to Dolly Parton read this as part of her "Goodnight With Dolly" series. I love her soothing voice and how she always sings a little. https://donate.imaginationlibrary.com/goodnight-with-dolly/

Violet is a "mechanical genius," who lives with her parents and her dog, Orville, next to a junkyard her father manages. She loves to build flying machines, and hopes that competing in a local air show will make the kids at school like her. But on the way to the air show, she sees some scouts in trouble on the river, and performs a rescue, missing the air show. She flies home sadly after dropping the boys at the hospital, but that evening, half the town shows up at her house to celebrate her heroism.

See also: Vroom! by Barbara McClintock, Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty, The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires ( )

The book talked about an extraordinary girl who is interested in building machines. It is a realistic fiction because the story can be real, but the plots may be imagined by the author. The girl in this story has no friend and is bullied verbally by his schoolmates because of her interests and her coverall that she wears every day. However, the girl becomes famous because she uses her aircraft save others. From this perspective, children can learn how to respect differences. For educators also we can learn how to treat with gifted children. The book can be used in reading class. ( )

The little girl Violet liked working with mechanics and she created different things and they got more interesting as she got older. She saw a poster for an air show and built her plane. While going to the show she saved people in a river and took them to the hospital but she missed the show. Then the people in her town came to thank her.
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This book is the story of a little girl, named Violet, who was incredibly smart and a great builder. She could make flying machines out of anything and saved a group of boy scouts from a canoeing incident. Kids at school made fun of her for sitting by herself but word got out about her rescue and she got a medal of valor and everyone praised her heroic act.