Flight

The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager -- a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father -- who learns the true meaning of terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the 19th Century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he's seen. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant -- making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 04/17/2007
ISBN: 9780802170378
Pages: 181
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.55d
Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2006 pg. 88
Publishers Weekly 02/26/2007 pg. 54
Library Journal 04/01/2007 pg. 78
Booklist 03/01/2007 pg. 37
Entertainment Weekly 05/04/2007 pg. 144
New York Times 05/27/2007 pg. 13
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2007 pg. 251 - Recommended - Better Than Most
School Library Journal 08/01/2007 pg. 143
Multicultural Review 03/01/2008 pg. 45
ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2008 pg. 1

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 117051 / Flight
Reading Level: 3.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 5