How I Founded the Explorer Club
Pierdomenico Baccalario
The Sky Thief
Adventure
It was decision time. He felt for the handle. Shut his eyes. It would take a few seconds to know if it had worked. Or if he was going to hit the ground and die.
In 1971, a man known as D.B. Cooper hijacked an American scheduled airline and demanded $200,000 and a parachute be brought on board. Then, he left the plane. What did he do next? Thirty-five years later, a boy named Rusty meets an old man called Carter who shows him that “you always get a second chance…”
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Two stories packed with adventure, acts of bravery and humanity, woven together with narrative mastery.
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A powerfully honest and moving story, with a surprising twist.
Publisher:
Rizzoli
Target:
12+
Year:
2019
Author
Christian Hill
Christian Hill is an author and screenwriter. He has written many children’s stories including Il Ladro dei Ceili (The Sky Thief), Rizzoli, winner of the Cento Children’s Literature Prize in 2019, and Olga, una Storia di Pace in Tempo di Guerra (Olga, A Story of Peace in Wartime), Rizzoli, which entered the Italian IBBY Honour List in 2023. His works have been translated into several languages, some of which he can recognise and some of which he can’t. He loves music, role-playing games and his armchair.
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