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A Wish For Wings

  • Imprint: Yearling

  • ISBN: 9780440863960

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 195mm x 11mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 138g

  • RRP: £6.99

A Wish For Wings

'I'LL FLY,' JENNA WHISPERED TO HERSELF. 'I'LL FLY, WHATEVER NED SAYS. WHATEVER ANYBODY SAYS...'

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...

  • Imprint: Yearling

  • ISBN: 9780440863960

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 195mm x 11mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 138g

  • RRP: £6.99

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About the Author

Robert Swindells

Robert Swindells was born in Bradford in 1939 and continues to live in Yorkshire. He left school at 15 and worked in a variety of jobs, including primary school teaching, before becoming a full-time writer. His widely acclaimed novels often reflect his political passions, such as BROTHER IN THE LAND, which is set in the aftermath of a nuclear war. He has won the Red House Children's Book Prize several times and in 1993 he won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD, a young adult novel about homelessness.

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