β Scribed by Re, Loretta
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
It's October 1934. The Great Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne will be the biggest and most exciting the world has ever seen. Ten-year-old Jack longs to see the planes arrive and meet the aviators, but he lives in Albury, miles away from the action. He listens to the radio, thrilled that his father, the local ABC announcer, is calling the race. Then disaster strikes. The giant Dutch plane, the Uiver , is lost in a terrible thunderstorm over Albury. Jack's father must decide if he should break the ABC's rules and rally the town to rescue the plane. And Jack must leap into action...
Now Loretta Re brings vividly to life this great true story, which won both Albury and Australia a lasting place in aviation history. Whether you love planes, or just dream of having an adventure like Jack's, whether you're young or just young at heart, you won't want to miss Stand Up and Cheer.
'I started reading and couldn't put it down--it's such an exciting aviation and...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
**Named one of 2019's most anticipated reads by *Entertainment Weekly*, "a hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a family's insanely dramatic summer at their new island home" (*Cosmopolitan*) in the Pacific Northwest.** The inimitableβsome might say incorrigibleβFrank Widdicombe is suffering f
**Named one of 2019's most anticipated reads by LitHub and *Entertainment Weekly*** **From a bright new voice in contemporary fiction comes a hilarious and sophisticated comedy of manners about a delightfully eccentric family and the absurd happenings that befall them during one frenzied summe
**Named one of 2019's most anticipated reads by LitHub and *Entertainment Weekly*** **From a bright new voice in contemporary fiction comes a hilarious and sophisticated comedy of manners about a delightfully eccentric family and the absurd happenings that befall them during one frenzied summe
**Named one of 2019βs most anticipated reads by LitHub and *Entertainment Weekly** * **From a bright new voice in contemporary fiction comes a hilarious and sophisticated comedy of manners about a delightfully eccentric family and the absurd happenings that befall them during one frenzied summer a