Flight attendant reunites girl with lost book

MEDIA, Pa. (FOX 29) - A little girl and her lost book were reunited with the help of a stranger nearly 2,200 miles away.

Why is a sixth grader from Springton Lake Middle School FaceTiming with a Spirit Airlines flight attendant? It's kind of a funny story.

Kaitlyn and her dad took a Spirit flight from Philadelphia to Clearwater, Florida, back on March 6 to see the Phillies and Bryce Harper.

Before heading out, she stopped by the school library to pick up a copy of 'Fast Break', which is a kids' sports novel by one of her favorite authors, Mike Lupica.

"So on the way down there I was reading it and then I put it in that kind of pouch or holder in the seat in front," Kaitlyn explained.

She accidentally left it there.

Kaitlyn had a great time in Florida but came back without the book.

Two weeks passed, before Spirit flight attendant Jamie Patzer was preparing her Las Vegas-to-Houston flight and found the book in an overhead bin.

"I noticed it was a library book and I noticed that the due date was coming up on it and I thought, 'I need to get this book back to the school, so I'm going to do a good deed and send the book myself," she said.

Kaitlyn was called to the principal's office on Wednesday. She figured she was in trouble for losing her book when Dr. Bob Salladino pulled it from beneath a pile of papers on his desk. Her reaction?

"Complete surprise. It was priceless. I wish I had a photograph of the look on her face. She definitely was surprised," Dr. Bob Salladino said.

In the letter she sent with the package, Patzer noted the novel had likely traveled thousands of miles since being lost.

"What a story it could tell," she wrote.