Airman

by Eoin Colfer
PRMS hardcover 412 pages
genre: YA adventure, historical

This took me a loooong time to get through. Conor Broekhart has a fascination with flying. Set in the late 1890s on the Saltee islands, we see Conor's birth, childhood, downfall, imprisonment, and triumph (naturally). I ended up enjoying it, but it took a while for the story to develop enough for me to care.