The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future Fiction_Gift_Guide A New York Times bestseller

A New York Times bestseller * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Winner * Publishers Weekly

peering into the half-lit drizzle of a Scottish summer day

he had already been politically and militarily active for years

but while there he encounters something that turns his world upside down

The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future Fiction_Gift_Guide A New York Times bestsellerThe inspiring story of a pathbreaking 1919 flight and the courageous fliers who risked their lives to make aviation history. In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into the air. Only one team, after a death defying sixteen