Airman / Eoin Colfer.
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TextPublication details: New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 412 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 1423107500 (reinforced) :
- 9781423107507 (reinforced) :
- Adventure stories
- Flying-machines -- Juvenile fiction
- Inventors -- Juvenile fiction
- Islands -- Juvenile fiction
- Prisoners -- Juvenile fiction
- Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fiction
- Little Saltee (Ireland) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Saltee Islands (Ireland) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- A Junior Library Guild selection
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Colfer, Eoin | Available | 33111005495979 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Conor Broekhart was born to fly. In fact, legend has it that he was born flying in a hot air balloon at the world's fair.
In the 1890's Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Princess Isabella.
But the boy's idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king. When Conor tries to expose the plot, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There, he has to fight for his life as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions.
There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So he passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines into the prison walls. The months turn into years, but eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the skies.
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
A Junior Library Guild selection