By Vanessa Harbour (author)
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Austria 1945. After losing his family, Jakob shelters with Spanish Riding School groom Herr Engel at a remote country stables where they are hiding the precious Lipizzaner stallions the Nazis wants to steal. When a German officer comes looking for Jakob and finds the horses, Jakob and his guardian know they must get the stallions to safety, but the only way is straight through enemy territory.
Joined by Kizzy, an orphan Roma girl, the three must guide the horses across the perilous Austrian mountains. Will they reach safety, and what will be waiting for them on the other side?
Vanessa Harbour was born in Bromsgrove. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the university in Winchester. She used to run her own PR consultancy. She has been commissioned to write Creative and Critical Approaches to Writing Young Adult Fiction by Palgrave. She was previously Academic and Business Consultant at the Golden Egg Academy and now writes online courses. She has written for the Bookseller on being a disabled author.
Flight, her first novel, was published in 2018, and has since sold in the US and been selected for Empathy Lab's #ReadforEmpathy Guide.
Vanessa is based in Winchester. You can follow her here on Instagram @nessharbour
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Austria 1945. After losing his family, Jakob shelters with Spanish Riding School groom Herr Engel at a remote country stables where they are hiding the precious Lipizzaner stallions the Nazis wants to steal.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Flight and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-10 years old
Flight features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommendations
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