Winging It (Angels Unlimited) [Paperback]

Annie Dalton (Author)

Book Description

Series: Angels Unlimited | Publication Date: January 2, 2001

Meet Melanie Beeby! Mel is a trainee time-travelling angel. She's feisty, witty, streetwise and...dead! New-look cover for an angelic series rebirth! Melanie Beeby, just thirteen, has been permanently removed from the late 20th Century by a speeding joy rider. She is elevated to another place, where she attends the Angel Academy. When she is asked to join an elite trouble-shooting group, Angels Unlimited, she is sent on a trial mission to London during the Blitz to help save another young person. Mel breaks the only rule -- she materialises to a human -- yet still manages to come out top of the class! She is given her angel name -- Helix -- and comes up with her perfect teen outfit. 'To me this look says committed, it says now, it says ready for action. I mean, I'm an angel, so I should look divine, right?' Hilarious, fast-moving, other-worldly adventure!

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About the Author

Annie Dalton has worked as a waitress, a cleaner, a factory worker but is now a full-time writer. Her book The After Dark Princess won the Nottinghamshire Book Award . Night Maze was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal as was The Real Tilly Beany. Naming the Dark and Swan Sister were shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award. Annie was born in Dorset but now lives in Suffolk.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Harper Collins Childs (January 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0006754848
• ISBN-13: 978-0006754848
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,257,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She's got Wings!, April 19, 2003

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Kali "bengaligirl" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angels Unlimited #1: Winging It (Paperback)

This is the first in collection of books about a young girl who finds herself at an Angel Academy after she dies in accident not long after her 12th birthday. Beeing a trainee Angel isn't what Mel Beeby expected from life...er death that is. She still misses her mother and younger sister and she isn't sure at first if she's cut out for the duties of an Angel, duties which include Time Travel and helping people when they need it most back on earth. Also being an Angel can be dangerous work, there are the "others" the [bad] ones who try to thwart the work of the Angels and there are other distractions too in the guise of good looking boy Angels who go by the name of Orlando.

This is a great book for a pre-teen or early teen reader. I wouldn't be surprised if this book and its equally good sequels were eventually made into a TV series. A quality fun read for all those kids who like a fantasy read that sparkles from page to page.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 'one of the best books i ever read...', January 27, 2006

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beautiful_blonde_bimbo "~beautiful_blonde_bimbo~" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angels Unlimited #1: Winging It (Paperback)

this book is one of the best books i've ever read (and i've read a lot of books!!!) i loved it so much i went and brought the rest of the series!!!!!!! i love it and re-read it often!!!! i am 13 and the reccommened age is 9-12 but i reeckon that is all wrong i think that this book is suitable for anyone who can relate to it and i can!!!!!! so well done Annie Dalton and please write some more!!!!!!!!!!!!