### From School Library Journal Grade 58Somewhere in the U.S., in a small farming community called Lowland County, a girl named Piper McCloud is born to a simple, God-fearing farmer and his wife. Piper has a special talent: she can fly. What follows is an uneasy mix of fantasy and science fiction t
The Girl Who Could Fly
β Scribed by Victoria Forester
- Publisher
- Macmillan;Scholastic
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Edition
- 1st Scholastic printing
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Grade 5β8βSomewhere in the U.S., in a small farming community called Lowland County, a girl named Piper McCloud is born to a simple, God-fearing farmer and his wife. Piper has a special talent: she can fly. What follows is an uneasy mix of fantasy and science fiction that has plot points that are fairly derivative. When her talent for flying is discovered, a charismatic director of a special school takes Piper under her wing. She arrives at an amazing place with multiple floors and discovers a lot of other kids with extraordinary powers, tooβas well as a nefarious plot to remove their special talents by altering their DNA.
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