Probably the only person ever to win both the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award and the Western Writers of America Spur Award, Maurer ventures into a new field with this young-adult book telling the bittersweet story of Katharine Wright, little sister to the Wright brothers. She was the only member of the family to attend college, where she excelled in Latin and Greek, but found her adult life constrained by a domineering widower father and two flight-obsessed bachelor brothers.