I just read a book tittled AQUILA recently. The book is a winner of Whitbread Award and the author is Andrew Norriss. It is published by the Puffin book.
The book is for teenager actually. I read it becaus I want to practice my english. I tought it was just like some other children books, fun, imaginative and simple. Well I was wrong. It is a very wonderfull story. The idea is very brlliant.
The story is about two unique students who found flying saucer named Aquila in a cave left by a dead man body next to it. They are unique because they never really get into with the schools activity. But since they found Aquila the atmosphere they brought into class is changing. The show great anthusiasm in some topics like geography, maths and physics related to the problems they found to work with Aquila.
They even almost start to learn Latin when they found that it can talk.
These unbelievable habit trigger the teachers' curiosity. They want to know what make them change. Until the teachers finally found their diary and read some remarkable exerience written on it, still they do not realize that there was such a thing like Aquila. They keep thingking it was only an imagination created by the two boys.
This is an interesting words I found in the book and I like it.
"A man can fly anywhere, if he rides on the back of eagle.
That is how you get to do what you want in life. You decide where you want to go, and you find yourself an eagle. Eagles come in many forms, but they all have one thing in common. They carry you the places you could not get to on your own. Sometimes to places you never even thought possible.
They do not always have feathers and wings. Some of them even look like schoolteachers."
(Andrew Norris from AQUILA p. 128)
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