A Wish for Wings

Author(s): Robert Swindells

Children & Young Adult

Jenna is 13, and has suddenly realized what she wants to do with her life. She wants to fly. Like Grandad's heroine, Amy Johnson. But Jenna's wish for wings has to be put on hold when something awful happens: Grandad's souvenir of his wartime service - a loaded gun - goes missing.

General Information

  • : 9780440863960
  • : trans
  • : trans
  • : 01 May 2002
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Robert Swindells
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : 192
  • : illustrations

More About The Product

'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page' Young Telegraph. 'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' The Sunday Times.

Robert Swindells is the winner of the Children's Book Award for Room 13 and the Carnegie Medal for his controversial novel, Stone Cold. Hydra was runner up for the Sheffield Children's Book Award and a Federation of Children's Book Groups Pick of the Year.