Sky Chasers, Emma Carroll
Sky Chasers, Emma Carroll
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Sky Chasers

Author: Emma Carroll

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2019

Synopsis

The race is on to be the first to discover the secret of flight! Magpie is soon caught up in a world of science, spies, and unruly animals to be the first to passenger in a hot air balloon.Yesterday, Magpie was one of the best thieves in all of France. But an encounter with a boy dangling from the sky will change her life forever. And even though it ends in disaster, Magpie becomes enthralled by the idea of flying over the rooftops of Paris like the dangling boy: Pierre. His family, the Montgolfiers, are desperate to be the first to discover the secret of flight. And Magpie has ideas, but she also has secrets. Together with Pierre, she'll need to help the Montgolfiers accomplish their dream before her past gets the best of them all. In a test of bravery, imagination, science, and friendship--Magpie, Pierre, and their pet birds are in a race against time to get the Montgolfier's in the air before the King and Queen. It'll take two children, a chicken, a duck, and a sheep to help them find the answers. But others, too, are determined to discover the Montgolfiers' invention...

About Emma Carroll

Emma Carroll is the multi award-winning author of many bestselling historical stories, including Secrets of a Sun King, Letters from the Lighthouse, The Week at World’s End and A Night at the Frost Fair.  With a background as an English teacher, her stories are often magical, and always led by a cast of impressive female characters.  She lives in the Somerset hills with her husband and two talkative terriers. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daisebeeyourself on September 21, 2020

This book is SO good. I honestly don't know why I put it down for a month. This book gave me the chills every time Magpie was in the air. This book is all the way from Year 6/ Grade 8 (kinda stole the book from the school library) but I still read it and I still love it. I liked it so much, I wrote......more

Goodreads review by Perdita on January 10, 2018

'What an adventure! Orphans and queens and inventors and rakes, this story does not flag for a second. Magpie is a smart and strong hero who stands for no nonsense (especially not from the men and boys around her) and the cast of supporting characters is wonderful - not merely human ("'What possesse......more

Goodreads review by Quill&Queer on August 21, 2022

This story was the winner of the Big Ideas competition, where an idea was submitted and Emma wrote the book. I feel that the idea itself - a historical middle grade set in France about the race against the English to build the first Hot Air Balloon - was interesting, but the author didn't seem to kn......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on November 16, 2019

This was just adorable! Always love when there are animal sidekicks and I really liked this middle grade take on historical fiction with children lending a hand in the first hot air balloon invention.......more

Goodreads review by Vonprice on January 10, 2018

This is a delightful story based on the struggles of the Montgolfier family to win the race to create a hot air balloon, to satisfy the command of King Louis XVI. It was written by one of my favourite authors, Emma Carroll, based on a story idea which won Chicken House's "big idea" competition. As al......more

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