Airman /
Eoin Colfer.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008.
- 412 p. ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal starred, January 2008 Kirkus Starred, November 2007 Booklist, February 2008 Horn Book, March 2008 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), April 2008 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2008 Library Media Connection, February 2008
In the 1890s on an island off the Irish coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely imprisoned and passes the solitary months by scratching designs of flying machines into the walls, including one for a glider with which he dreams of escape.