![]() ![]() ![]() The barnstorming circus has lady pilots, daredevil stuntmen, fire-spinners, and wing walkers, and Birdie is instantly enchanted-especially with a girl pilot named June. When Birdie sees a leaflet for a barnstorming circus with a picture of Dad’s plane on it, she goes to Coney Island in search of answers. Her father’s bank has failed, and worse, he’s disappeared along with his Jenny biplane. ![]() It’s 1930, and Birdie William’s life has crashed along with the stock market. Here is a story about falling-falling from grace, falling in love-as well as soaring to heights you wouldn’t know were possible if you never stepped out into thin air. A book to be re-read over, and over, and over again." -Katherine Locke, award-winning author of The Girl with the Red Balloon "I imagine wing-walking and reading An Impossible Distance to Fall feel a great deal the same: heart-stopping, thrill-seeking and addictive. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |