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Author

Raven, Margot Theis.

Title Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot : a true story of the Berlin airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky / by Margot Theis Raven ; illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen.

Imprint

Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, c2002.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Meadowlark Non-Fiction	943 RAV	---	Available

Description	[48] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Indexed In:	School Library Journal, August 2002
	Publisher's Weekly, April 2002
	Booklist, July 2002
	Kirkus Review, June 2002
Summary	The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
Audience	4.5
	3-6 Follett Library Resources
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR ATOS LG RL 4.7 0.5 LARK
Subject	Halvorsen, Gail S.
	Simon, Mercedes.
	United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command -- Biography.
	Berlin (Germany) -- History.
	Air pilots.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
	Germany -- History -- 1945-1990.
Added Author	Frankenhuyzen, Gijsbert van, illustrator.
ISBN	1585360694