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Literature for Life Arnold Wheaton (publisher), series - publisher
1 2 y separately published work icon Rattletrap Rosie Mary Small , Ron Ryan (illustrator), Leeds : Arnold Wheaton , 1984 Z830405 1984 single work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon A Bath for Biscuit Helen Hunt , Haworth Bartram (illustrator), Leeds : Arnold Wheaton , 1982 Z838230 1982 single work picture book children's
2 y separately published work icon Nat, the School Cat L. M. Napier , Haworth Bartram (illustrator), Leeds : Arnold Wheaton , 1981 Z1314636 1980 single work picture book children's
11 5 y separately published work icon To the Wild Sky Ivan Southall , Exeter : Arnold Wheaton , 1980 Z43205 1967 single work children's fiction children's

'No one had talked about fuel; what was the use of talking, anyway? But they all knew that engines which run on fuel have to run out of fuel sometime, and that the Egret just couldn’t keep on going for ever. They seemed to have been sitting in this plane, imprisoned, for days, waiting to die. Gerald just flew on and on as though he wanted to fly away to another world, almost as though he didn’t want to go down, almost as though he didn’t know how to go down.

When the Egret’s pilot dies suddenly mid-flight six teenagers, the only passengers on board, face a terrifying situation. Gerald has had some flying lessons, but he has never flown alone, and he has never landed a plane. Lost and afraid, they fly on as the fuel gauge drops and night closes in. Will they find a clear landing place? Could they land in the sea? If they do somehow land safely how will they find their way back to civilisation?'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Text Publishing edition).
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