![]() ![]() That summer also marks the arrival of his cousin Annelise, sent to live with the family under mysterious circumstances. Huck is building his own airplane, a fact he has concealed from his mother. ![]() When he and a friend find a dead body in a local creek, a rare Lindbergh flight watch on its wrist, it seems like a sign. The summer of 1937 will be a turning point for fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn. From the nationally bestselling author of Painted Horses, Malcolm Brooks returns with a soaring, spirited novel set during the summer of Amelia Earhart's final flight-a tale of American ingenuity and optimism set against the backdrop of a deepening Great Depression. From the author of the national bestseller Painted Horses, a novel set during the Age of Aviation, in which a young tinkerer and an aspiring pilot building their own airplane unexpectedly come into possession of a rare Lindbergh flight watch owned by a bank robber whose fellow criminals want it back. ![]()
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