Aquila - Softcover

Norriss, Andrew

4.09

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140383654 ISBN 13: 9780140383652

Publisher: Puffin, 1997

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Two schoolboys discover a spaceship when out on a school-trip. The boys learn to fly the spaceship and talk in Latin, because this is the only language Aquila understands. But the more fun and adventures the boys have, the more they seem to grow apart.

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While skiving off from school, Tom and Geoff make an amazing discovery--a strange vehicle that has lain hidden for centuries. It turns out to be a fantastic flying machine that can travel incredible distances and take them wherever they wish. =It can even make them invisible--what a find! The only problem is, how do they keep it a secret?

This award-winning novel (1997 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Smarties Prize) is a fantastic adventure, full of humour, excitement and the kind of adventures children are always dreaming of.

About the Author:

Andrew Norriss was born in Scotland and taught history in a sixth-form college in England for ten years before becoming a full-time writer. Together with Richard Fegen he is the creator and writer of several TV sitcoms, notably The Brittas Empire. He lives in Hampshire.

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