Books with title Flight of the Tiger Moth

Jack Waters sees his small prairie town turned upside down in World War II when an air base to train English flyers is set up nearby. It’s 1943, no one knows who will win the war, and Canadians are taking a major role in the fighting. This includes training British Royal Air Force pilots in many centres across Canada. Even though Jack can’t enlist, he secretly learns how to fly. Good thing, because when a friend’s plane comes down on the prairie, Jack has no choice but to make his first solo flight – to try and save a life.Flight of the Tiger Moth is the thrilling story of one boy’s journey to become a man and find his path in the world. It also gives young readers a glimpse of life during World War II.

When death threatens a pilot at the nearby air training base, seventeen-year-old Jack must use a secretly-acquired skill to save a life and affirm his own identity to his over protective mother. Jack Waters sees his small prairie town turned upside down in World War II, when an air base to train English flyers is set up nearby. It's 1943, no one knows who will win the war, and Canadians are taking a major role in the fighting. This includes training British Royal Air Force pilots in many centres across Canada. Even though Jack can't enlist, he secretly learns how to fly. Good thing, because when a friend's plane comes down on the prairie, Jack has no choice but to make his first solo flight - to try and save a life. The Flight of the Tiger Moth is the thrilling story of one boy's journey to become a man and find his path in the world. It also gives young readers a glimpse of Canadian lives during World War II, and of one more Canadian contribution to winning the war.

Excerpt from The Flight of a MothShe is perfectly right, I do! For if I burn my wings I shall have been very near the light and I would rather be a burnt moth than a crawling worm!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter ii On Board Deotschland. Second day out. duise dear, I am off, and everything so far is going beautifully! But to be-gin at the beginning: There was a horrible jam of carriages crossing the ferry and on the steamship docks, and we were all wedged together like pieces of floating ice. Lucy drove me over, and gave me all the sisterly advice that she had forgotten, as well as repeating that which she had already given me during the last week. I was absent-mindedly answering "yes" to all she said, when my attention was attracted to the most rakishly fascinating face that I have ever seen. The possessor of it was peering out of the window of a Waldorf cab, his head cocked impertinently sideways, and each crossways growing tuft of bristly hair seeming thrust out to telegraph additional messages to the little active, interested brain behind the alert eyes. "Now what sort of a person might you be?" his whole attitude asked me distinctly; and then after a moment he turned with equally interested scrutiny to a steward carrying somebody's luggage, and wondered what that might mean. "Oh, you dear," I said aloud, "I wonder who you are? You are the most attractive yellow dog I have ever seen." "Grace, will you stop gazing at all the animals you see, and listen to what I am telling you?" "I am listening, Lucy! I am to go and amuse myself by being ordered around by Great-Aunt, spend my days with Kate and a Baedeker studying the galleries, be home every night at seven, not forget to wear rubbers when it rains" "I do wish you would take things seriously and not be so silly," sighed Lucy. "You are becoming more reckless all the time. Heaven only knows where your foolishness will lead you!" "There has to be one black sheep in every wellregulated...

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