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Unaccompanied Minor
Hollis Gillespie
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Description for Unaccompanied Minor
Hardcover. Fourteen-year-old April May Manning spent her life on airplanes with her flight attendant parents. When her father dies in a crash, April's mom marries a pilot who turns out to be an abusive jerk--and who connives for custody of April and her baby brother, and gets Mom confined to a psychiatric hospital. . Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: YFCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 221 x 24. Weight in Grams: 446.
Fourteen-year-old April May Manning spent her life on airplanes with her flight attendant parents. When her father dies in a crash, April's mom marries a pilot who turns out to be an abusive jerk, and gets Mom confined to a psychiatric hospital. So April takes off, literally, living on airplanes, using her mother's flight benefits, relying on the flight crews who know she's been shuttling between divorcing parents for a year. Then, there's a hijacking, but why is April's "dad" on board? April flees to the cargo hold with another unaccompanied minor she's met before, and they fight to thwart the hijackers, faking a fire, making weapons from things they find in luggage. At last, locked in the cockpit with a wounded police officer, the boy, and his service dog, April tries to remember everything her parents said to do in a crisis above the clouds. But she knows it won't be enough.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Adams Media Corporation United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781440567735
SKU
V9781440567735
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Hollis Gillespie
Hollis Gillespie is a humor columnist, writer and comedian based in Atlanta, Georgia. She wrote for Atlanta's Creative Loafing weekly for eight years until October 2008.
Reviews for Unaccompanied Minor
"April is a fantastic narrator ... a fun read that combines believable characters and an outrageous situation." - Booklist "A laugh-out-loud thriller about family court, money laundering and skyjacking.... Former flight attendant Gillespie's insider knowledge infuses April's account with confident authority. Her impeccable comic timing...will leave readers...in stitches. A high-sky winner all the way from coast to coast." - Kirkus Reviews "Unaccompanied Minor manages to incorporate elements of comedy, adventure, and thriller into an action-packed story. Hollis Gillespie had a snarky, dry wit...I found myself rapt. Read this one for fun, for laughs, and for a lot of in-depth information about how airlines work that somehow comes across as fascinating rather than dull."
About.com Young Adult Books "Meet April...one of my FAVORITE young adult main characters to date. Simply unforgettable, and the laughable-but-believable way the climax of this story takes place will keep you on the edge of your seat.... Pick this up for a great read."
YA Books Central (5 Star Review)
About.com Young Adult Books "Meet April...one of my FAVORITE young adult main characters to date. Simply unforgettable, and the laughable-but-believable way the climax of this story takes place will keep you on the edge of your seat.... Pick this up for a great read."
YA Books Central (5 Star Review)