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Airman
Title:
Airman
Author:
Colfer, Eoin.
Personal Author:
Colfer, Eoin.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Hyperion Books for Children, [2008]

©2008
Physical Description:
412 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
800 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.8 16.0 119440.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 5.3 24 Quiz: 42858.
Subject Term:
Flying machines -- Juvenile fiction.

Prisoners -- Juvenile fiction.

Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction -- Juvenile fiction.

Inventors -- Juvenile fiction.

Islands -- Juvenile fiction.

Flying-machines -- Juvenile fiction.
Geographic Term:
Saltee Islands (Ireland) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fiction.

Little Saltee (Ireland) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Action and adventure fiction.

Inventors.

Children's stories.
ISBN:
9781423107507
Format :
Book

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