The Jerrie Mock StoryIn this biography for middle grade readers, Nancy Roe Pimm tells the story of Geraldine Jerrie Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world. In her trusty Cessna, The Spirit of Columbusalso known as Charlieshe traveled from Columbus, Ohio, on an eastward route that totaled nearly twenty three thousand miles and took almost a month. Overcoming wind, ice, mechanical problems, and maybe even sabotage, Mock persevered. Mock caught the aviation bug