Jenna is thirteen - and has suddenly realized what she wants to do with her life. She wants to fly. Like Grandad's heroine, Amy Johnson...But Jenna's wish for wings has to be put on hold when something awful happens: Grandad's souvenir of his wartime service - a loaded gun - goes missing. And Jenna is almost certain that her brother Ned has taken it...
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About the Author:
ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer. RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005. 'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page' YOUNG TELEGRAPH
From AudioFile:
Kim Hicks begins on a bright note in her reading of this story of Jenna, a 13-year-old obsessed with becoming an airline captain. Hicks's reading becomes more serious as Jenna struggles with her grandfather's grief over her grandmother's recent death and her brother's continued association with a local delinquent. Hicks brings the listener closer to Jenna through her expressive reading of dialogue and does an excellent job with the story's many interior monologues and flashbacks. She also builds tension as Jenna's situation becomes ever more serious and the story takes a number of surprising turns. An absorbing production sure to hook most listeners. A.F. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherCorgi Childrens
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0440863961
- ISBN 13 9780440863960
- BindingPaperback
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