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The Avion My Uncle Flew

Cyrus Fisher, Richard Floethe

Paperback (Walker Childrens, April 1, 2004)

Johnny Littlehorn kicked like a steer when his parents told him he'd spend the summer in a dull little French town instead of on their Wyoming ranch. "What a way to spend a summer," Johnny thought disgustedy. That was before he discovered a pistol hidden in a loaf of bread ... and got on the trail of a fugitive Nazi spy and a stolen fortune!

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The Avion my Uncle Flew

Cyrus Fisher

Paperback (Puffin Books, June 1, 1993)

While visiting his uncle in the mountains of France shortly after World War II, Johnny stumbles upon an evil plot being hatched by a fugitive Nazi spy.

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Avion My Uncle Flew

Cyrus Fisher

Paperback (Scholastic Inc., Jan. 1, 1948)

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The avion my uncle flew

Cyrus FISHER, Illustrated by Richard Floethe

Hardcover (Peter Lunn, March 15, 1946)

London: Peter Lunn, 1946. First Edition. 12mo, 253 pp. Black cloth, pictorial jacket. VG+/VG+. A scarce unclipped jacket, still showing "8s 6d net" has small nicks and some soiling; book shows spotting to cloth spine, light offsetting to endpapers, light splay typical of the thin boards. Better than VG book in better than VG unclipped jacket. A Newbery Honor Book in 1947; the tale of Johnny Littlehorn, an American boy who is sent to France immediately after World War II to stay with his eccentric, aviation-minded uncle and recuperate from an injury. He eludes Nazi spies, learns to communicate with the locals, and conqers homesickness. The book increasingly incorporates French vocabulary words throughout, with the last four pages written entirely in French. A classic of juvenile fiction. L-34n