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'In this touching novel for ages 10+, Lucy Christopher explores the remarkable bond between a young girl, a boy and a damaged wild bird - a relationship that will affect everyone who reads it.
'While visiting her father in hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla meets Harry, the first boy to understand her and her love of the outdoors. But Harry is ill, and as his health fails, Isla is determined to help him in the only way she knows how.
'Together they watch a lone swan struggling to fly on the lake outside Harry's window. Isla believes that if she can help the damaged swan, somehow she can help Harry. And in doing so, she embarks upon a breathtakingly magical journey of her own.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Booked launched in the United Kingdom at Waterstone's bookstore, Bath, 28 January 2010.
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[Review] Flyaway
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 55 no. 1 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of Flyaway 2010 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Flyaway
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 May 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of Flyaway 2010 single work children's fiction
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[Review] Flyaway
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 May 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of Flyaway 2010 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Flyaway
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 55 no. 1 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of Flyaway 2010 single work children's fiction
Awards
- 2011 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Children's Fiction
- 2010 shortlisted Costa Book Awards — Children's
- 2010 shortlisted Waterstone's Children's Book Prize
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