The Edge of the Cloud (Oxford Children's Modern Classics)

by K. M. Peyton (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.28

  Christina and her cousin Will have run away to London, like a pair of fairy-tale lovers. Will's passionate ambition to design, make and fly aeroplanes is a hard one to realize, and Christina also has battles to win, including coming to terms with the fact that she must always come second to Will's love of aeroplanes.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.28

  Christina and Will have escaped Flambards for London with their heads full of dreams, only to find a whole new set of problems. Not only the basic ones of work and a place to live, but Will's single-minded ambition to desing and pilot flying machines, which terrify Christina every time he leaves the ground. Will is certain he can become a success, but what price is he willing to pay for the glory? A Carnegie Medal winner in 1969, this novel is now reissued in a smaller format mass-market paperback.