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Airman

by Eoin Colfer

Disney Book Group | May 5, 2009 | Trade Paperback

Conor Broekhart was born to fly.
It is the 1890s, and Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king''s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy''s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor intervenes, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There, he has to fight for his life, as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions.
There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So Conor passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines into the prison walls. The months turn into years, but eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the skies.

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Airman

gracie xia

16 months ago

I'd wished they'd make a sequel to this book because I enjoyed it alot. It was also amazing how Eoin Colfer decided to make The Saltees as a habitable place for Humans to live, even though ity was abandoned for almost a century.

Connor Broekhart was born a Aviator at birth, he was actually born in an hot-air Balloon. After returning to the Saltees Connor grows up to be a bright young man also known as "A swashbuckling scientist" by Isabelle, his friend. He is trainted by Victo Vigny, a fellow Aviator was sees that Connor has potential to be an airman. So Connor is trained to be a swordsman as well as a scientist. Then one night Connor discovers that Bonvilian (A general of the king) is planning a plot to assasinate King Nick. Bonvilian successfully kills Victor and the King and blames Connor as a murder and so he is sent to the little Saltees for a life time.Connor spends two years in Jail becoming Connor Finn,a fierce Battering ram (Someone who is trained for all attacks) with brains.Connor plans a escape by air, he successfully escapes. He plans to go America and become a famous scientist, but his plans are thwarted when Bonvilian discovered that he escaped. Bonvilian threatens to poison the Queen and his family and blame it all on the airman (Connor). Connor builds a engine powered airplane to save Queen Isabelle and his Parents. In this battle Bonvilian drinks the poison at falls downwards towards the saltee oceans and he dies.
In the ending Connor is to go to Glascow University in Ireland and the story ends with Isabelle sayig goodbye to him.

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