Airman
By: Eoin Colfer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Junior Library Guild book
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781423107507
Subjects: Flying-machines -- Juvenile fiction; Prisoners -- Juvenile fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction; Inventors -- Juvenile fiction; Islands -- Juvenile fiction; Little Saltee (Ireland) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Junior Library Guild book."

Reading level 7.1.

Genre: historical fiction.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.8 16.0 119440.