"Pull out the best adjectives for a luminous comic novel--Wunderli's first--about two boys coming of age in 1939 in Thistle, Utah".--Kirkus Reviews, pointered review.
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Matt and his Native American friend Two Feathers live with Matt's family in a sleepy Utah town in 1939. They share a love of flight that leads them into assorted scrapes during their last summer before Two Moons has to go back to the reservation. As did Icarus, they construct a set of wings with disastrous results and later rebuild an airplane with the help of shell-shocked Uncle Emmett, a WW I ace. The boys' obsession with flight is unconvincingly explored, and their adventures have the rambling, episodic quality of a fondly remembered youth. This casts an aura of make-believe over the characters--what real child would think that wax and feathers could form a viable pair of wings? Nevertheless, Wunderli's debut features a credible well-real ized setting and sensitive look at his protagonists' friendship that should divert attention from the story's mechanical flaws. Ages 10-up.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-8-- In 1939, boys anywhere might have a yen to fly after seeing a barnstormer in a biplane hit town and sell rides at 50? a head. After Matt and Two Moons hear the myth about Daedalus and Icarus . . . is it any wonder that they make wings of willow twigs, sheets, candle wax, and three sacks of chicken feathers? Two Moons, a Navajo boy who lives with Matt's family, makes the first flight out of a hay loft--and crashes. But they still want to fly, and with the help of the town eccentric, they see their dreams come true in a reconstructed World War I plane before Two Moons goes away to live with his sister. Several weird characters add humor to the tale, which will please readers who can suspend disbelief and settle into a boyhood yarn of Thistle, Utah, 50 years ago. --George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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