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Stand up and cheer
Loretta Re

Stand up and cheer

a fierce storm, a lost plane, a flicker of hope

The Wild Colonial Company (2014)
Paperback
205 pages | Australia | English
Dewey 823.3 RE

Genre

  • Juvenile Fiction

Subject

  • Airplane Racing
  • Albury
  • Australia
  • Dutch Aviation
  • England
  • Uiver

Plot

It's October 1934. The Great Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne will be the biggest and most exciting the world has ever seen. Ten-year-old Jack longs to see the planes arrive and meet the aviators, but he lives in Albury, miles away from the action. He listens to the radio, thrilled that his father, the local ABC announcer, is calling the race. Then disaster strikes. The giant Dutch plane, the Uiver, is lost in a terrible thunderstorm over Albury. Jack's father must decide if he should break the ABC's rules and rally the town to rescue the plane. And Jack must leap into action.