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• 昔の本です

  絶版本が手に入って感無量

• ノーフォークの少年の揺れ動く心を描いた本、そしてライトニング

  ２人の少年を夢中にさせたライトニングってどんな飛行機？ アンドルーが思ったような不恰好なジェット機で、本当に空を飛ぶのと思いました。でもなんとなく好きになりました。なぜって？それはこの本のおかげでした。 でも飛行機のことを知らなくても少年たちの微妙な心の動きがわかる方にお勧めします。そして他の登場人物も魅力ある個性の持ち主で、彼らの生活のスタイルや飛び出す会話は読者を楽しませてくれます。 主人公アンドルーと友人ビクターは身の回りの変化や自分たちのいる田舎にもやがて訪れる時代の変化の兆しに戸惑いながらもそれを受け入れて成長していくのでした。 飛行機を題材にした英国の少年のとてもさわやかな物語でした。

• It was a pleasure to find a new copy available at a reasonable price, and delivered promptly. In case you need to know, the book was originally written for children but is a classic to please all ages.

• Fabulous book for reluctant readers, especially boys!

• This story for readers of 9-12 contains no wizards, shape-shifters, spies, dystopia, zombies or vampires (even of the aircraft sort!). There's very little action, no moments of life-or-death peril or one-word sentences. However, there are characters I cared about, and plenty of realism, feeling and insight about what it's like to be a 12 year old at a new school, or to be the class oddball. On top, some lovely observational humour. I'm not sure if children today still read books like this, but they ought to!

• This is not a fast-paced, action-packed thriller, but the emotional richness of the story makes it a compelling book. Andrew moves from Kent to Norfolk and struggles to fit in until he forges an alliance with Victor, another of the school's outcasts. Their growing friendship, set against the disappearance of Victor's favourite aeroplane, is a story I returned to again and again as a kid.

• I first read this in the late 70s and I always remembered it fondly. Its a very simple story on the face of it, but rereading it now I can actually see that there is a lot of clever life lessons subtlety woven into the story.

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