02212cam a2200493 i 4500 629703970 TxAuBib 20080717120000.0 071023s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007038415 9781423107507 reinforced bdg. 1423107500 reinforced bdg. (OCoLC)166872410 TXBRI eng rda TXBRI TxAuBib rda Colfer, Eoin. Airman / Eoin Colfer. First edition. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 2008. 412 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier in the 1890s, Conor Broekhart is a boy living on the Saltee Islands off the Irish coast, where his father works as the king's bodyguard. But his happy, carefree life is changed forever when he finds out that the power-hungry Marshall Hugo Bonvilian is organizing a military coup to overthrow the king. When Conor is unable to stop Bonvilian, the king is murdered, and Conor is falesly accused of the crime and thrown into prison. In prison, the boy passes the solitary months by scratching designs for flying machines onto the walls. After two years, Conor is finally able to build a glider, and executes a daring escape to the mainland. But right. 9-12. 4-7. 800L Lexile. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.8 16.0 119440. Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.8 16 119440. 20080717. Flying-machines Juvenile fiction. Prisoners Juvenile fiction. Prisoners Fiction. Adventure stories. Inventors Juvenile fiction. Inventors Fiction. Islands Juvenile fiction. Islands Fiction. Aeronautics Fiction. Little Saltee (Ireland) Juvenile fiction. Ireland History 1837-1901 Juvenile fiction. Ireland History Fiction. Fiction. TXBRI