Ack! Not the Honey Bunch books! I had those as a child. Honey Bunch (real name: Gertrude Marian Morton) is a preternaturally good little girl who enjoys housework and is always up to inoffensive hijinx with her best friend Norman. My father used to tease me about them - suggesting new titles for the series, like Honey Bunch and Her First Little Nuclear Reactor - until I wised up and realized that they were tripe.

I don't remember the airplane book, but given my recollections about the series, I doubt Honey Bunch did anything on the plane aside from being pampered by the stesardesses and perhaps shown the cockpit.

I'm wondering whether the problem with the librarian who wanted boys' books was that many of the newer books that have garnered positive reviews have female protagonists. Except for, like, The Graveyard Book and a dozen others. Maybe she's convinced that boys can't be made to read anything that doesn't have characters playing videogames and surfing the Intarwebs, so she's only interested in recent stuff. The part about singling out specific books that could have had male leads instead was especially strange.