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Readers will be caught up-though it's so misanthropic that many will wonder how anyone, especially women, could tolerate living in that country. Well stocked with credible cultural detail and enhanced by black-and-white chapter-head photos, their high-tension odyssey leads to a violent climax and an aftermath marked by surprising twists. They resolve on a desperate stratagem, slipping away not toward Kandahar as their pursuers would expect, but cross country to the Pakistan border. Then both of Yasmine’s parents are shot in a drive-by and evacuated to Kandahar, leaving her-and Tamanna, whose brutal uncle has tried and failed to sell her into marriage-in serious danger.

Though Yasmine does meet Tamanna, a friendly young neighbor, she is confined to the house and, until Taliban ruffians arrive to shut it down, a newly built school. Having spent most of her 14 years in England, bookish Yasmine chafes at the restrictions forced on her when her idealistic, university-educated parents bring her to a secluded village. This suspenseful tale of two young women on their own in modern Afghanistan makes riveting reading. Though dialogue is sometimes used didactically to teach readers the history of flight, Edward’s narrative is thoroughly engaging.Ī fine, old-fashioned-feeling coming-of-age tale set in the World War I skies. But he literally feels above it all, thinking, “If only I could stay up here forever, free from the insanity below.” Though he loses friends and acknowledges the death and destruction below, he is able to put the war at a distance and be realistic about his role in it: “It’s what I am, and I cannot deny that.” Wilson writes eloquently about one boy’s love of flight and his dream of flying. Wells had predicted air battles in the clouds and bomb-carrying flying machines capable of destroying whole cities, and soon Edward sees firsthand the killing capabilities of his beloved flying machines. From there, Edward goes to the Royal Flying Corps in England and off to war. It’s the early days of flying machines, and Edward’s uncle Horst, who builds various kinds of airplanes to fly the Saskatchewan skies in 1914, is in the thick of it, saying, “We will soar like the birds and laugh at the poor people on the ground below.” He arranges for Edward to go to flight school in Montana. Sixteen-year-old Edward Simpson dreams of being a pilot, and World War I affords him the opportunity.

Esther by Sharon E. McKay