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Gr 7-10 When Meline's and Jocelyn's parents are killed in a train wreck in Zimbabwe, the cousins are sent to a remote island off British Columbia to live with a rich uncle they have never met. Uncle Marten shuns companionship, devoting himself to studying obscure topics in hope of making sense of the world. The island he purchased was formerly a training camp for pilots, run by a crazed commander whose plan to train pilots to fly without instruments resulted in 11 deaths before the authorities stepped in. The arrival of his teenage ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

An island haunted by the wreckage of planes and pilots betrayed by an insane commander becomes a petri dish for the grief of a makeshift family of emotional cripples. When their parents are killed in a train accident (on the first page), teenage cousins Meline and Jocelyn find themselves abruptly under the guardianship of their fantastically wealthy and reclusive uncle. He is uniquely unqualified to nurture either body or soul of his new charges, so ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

After their parents' deaths in a train accident, cousins Meline and Jocelyn find themselves under the guardianship of their reclusive...Log In or Sign Up to Read More