Fly Away By Lucy Christopher

Isla loves swans and has inherited this love from her father, every year they go early to the lake to see the swans home after they have migrated, but it does not always run smoothly. The council has put up some wires on the route just before the lake and have not put red disks on them as promised. The swans don’t see the wires and Isla and her Dad shout and try to warn them, but they are so confident and sure that they notice nothing wrong. As the swans fall down one by one some still remain but leave the lake. Isla’s Dad goes to see if he can save the swans, but when he pulls out one hopeful swan he is tired and puffed unlike usual and is not looking well, Isla’s mother had told her that her Dad was getting ill but she didn’t realise the severity. When Isla and her Dad are driving along they see the swans and chase them, her Dad runs faster and faster then falls. An ambulance arrives and her Dad is taken to the hospital where she meets Harry and a lake you can see from his window has a swan, one of the smaller swans that was at the back when they crashed into the power lines. Isla goes to investigate but finds that the swan is very interested in her and will run when she runs and stop when she stops. For class they have to make a project on flight and Isla decides to make hers based on swan wings. She takes a stuffed swan from her granddad and he helps her turn them into the wing design, Isla practices with the wings and admirers the swan but her dad is getting worse and not even the swan can make him better. Isla’s Dad gets a pig heart in place of his own and at first the operation recovery goes downhill but then he gets better and Isla leads the swan home. This is a great book with romance, action and tragedy’s in which you will never get bored. This book is suited for all girls and also some guys too.