Airman
Last year, I read a book called Airman. It is a great book and I think everybody in the world should read it. It is about a boy named Conor who lives in a kingdom in the late 1800's. Conor works with his teacher on making a flying machine. The king is a descendant of former kings and his guard is the descendant of other guards. The guard's name is Bonvilain, and the last words his father said to him were about killing the king and taking over leadership. Conor hears Bonvilain walking down the hall to the king's room and follows him. Inside, the king and Conor's teacher are talking. Bonvilain kills the king and the teacher and Conor tries to stop him, but Bonvilain frames Conor for the crime. Conor is sent to work in cruel diamond mines and the only way to escape is to fly, so Conor must build a flying machine out of the resources he has.