Colfer, Eoin.

Airman / Eoin Colfer. - 1st ed. - New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008. - 412 p. ; 22 cm.

In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

ISBN: 1423107500 9781423107507

LCCN: 2007038415

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Flying-machines--Fiction.
Inventors--Fiction.
Islands--Fiction.
Prisoners--Fiction.
Children's literature--2008.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ireland--History--1837-1901--Fiction.
Saltee Islands (Ireland)--History--19th century--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.C677475 / Ai 2008

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]