5:15 P.M. Across town, seventeen-year-old Patrick Farquhar, a volunteer rescue worker, longs to prove himself a real emergency.

5:41 P.M. A deafening roar fills the air and the sky glows red. Flight #116, a jumbo jet en route to New York, has crashed in the woods behind Heidi's house.

Mustering strength and courage she never knew she had, Heidi -- alone at first, and then with Patrick and hundreds of others -- works to help the suffering and dying victims. It is a night that will change her life.

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the YA category by the Golden Sower Award. It was recognised by the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award. It also was recognised in the Middle School category by the Virginia Readers Choice Award.

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 201 pages in this book. This book was published 1900 by Scholastic US .

Caroline B. Cooney is the author of many hugely successful novels for young people, including THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON, WHAT CHILD IS THIS? and BURNING UP. She lives in Westbrook, Connecticut.