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The Boy Who Could Fly (2010)

by James Norcliffe(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1606840843 (ISBN13: 9781606840849)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

EgmontUSA

series

The Loblolly Boy

review 1: Michael lives in an orphanage and lives a miserable life. He desperately wants to get out. The orphanage is surrounded by a high brick wall so he knows nothing about what goes on outside of those walls. Also, the wardens and the viscious guard dogs makes escape impossible. One day Michael meets a stranger called the loblolly boy who can fly. He convinces Michael to trade places with him.....and Michael sees this as his chance to escape the orphanage. So, the loblolly boys teaches Michael how to fly and Michael becomes the loblolly boy. He flys away from the orphanage and discovers, people, places and things as well as discovering somethings about himself. After a while Michael tires of being the loblolly boy. He doesn't like being invisible, he doesn't like not h... moreaving an appetite and he misses his old life. But the problem is that now he must find someone to take his place. While outside of the orphanage he finds his family and for a while they trade places with him (his sisters) but won't assume his identity permanently. The only way for Michael to return to his original life is to convince the loblolly boy who traded places with him and who now lives at the orphanage to take his life back.This is an international literature book written in 2010 in the country of New Zealand. It was written for children ages 10-14. I have mixed feelings about how much students would enjoy this book very much. It moves very slow and is predictable.
review 2: It had so much potential, but it was wasted. He doesn't leave footprints, but he can carry objects? Special glasses help the collector _hear_ the boy? The collector captures butterflies ... and loblolly boys? The boy sleeps but doesn't eat? And with so much interaction potential, how is he not real? The kids in the orphanage don't even know the name of the institution? The mom can walk out with the kid without following policy? The captain and his telescope also fail to excite my imagination. They just don't seem to fit in.Now, had he been left really disconnected from reality, had the bad guy been convincing, had the telescope been left out, and had some of the rest of the plot been more convincing and consistent, I think this could have been a good book.I did like the idea of him finding his family. That was also something I didn't suspect before it happened, for some reason, yet it was still guessable, and that's good. less

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