This morning, I woke up on the ceiling ...

So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother's Batman balloons.

Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks she's an oddball with anger issues because her father vanished in a mysterious storm one night when she was six. Then there are the mean, false rumours people are spreading about her at school. On top of all that, now she's a flying freak.

How can she tell her best friend or her mother? How can she live her life? After Gwendolyn almost meets disaster flying too high and too fast one night, help arrives from the most unexpected place. And stranger still? She's not alone.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Red Maple Award category by the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Awards. It was recognised by the Canlit for Kids. It also was recognised by the Top Grade Canlit for the Classroom Selection. It was recognised by the Dewey Diva and the Dudes.

This is volume 1 in Night Flyers Handbooks .

There are 200 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Dundurn Group Ltd .

Philippa Dowding is an award-winning children's author, a poet, and a copywriter. Her many literary nominations include the Silver Birch Express, Red Cedar, and Red Maple awards. She lives in Toronto.