Nolan Cooper has a big secret. He invented and built an airplane. And he's going to test fly it himself. If he can cut fourth period, that is!
Why is a smart kid like Nolan flunking his classes? What kind of high school would punish a student for telling the truth? Why does the Principal want to destroy Nolan? Can his best friend be tempted to reveal his secret life? And why do they say his plane is going to kill him?
Will Nolan fly free of his troubles, or will he crash and burn? Find out in Solo Flight.
Solo Flight is the story of a young man and his clashes with the authorities as he tries to follow his own path in life. Part self-help novel, part political satire, the fast paced plot will keep you turning pages until the very end. You'll be shocked to discover the true purpose of public school. Learn why it fails so miserably at education while it holds back the best and brightest. Solo Flight is a Declaration of Independence for young people everywhere.
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By Christine Shuck
Sep 3, 2011
What struck me most about this book is how many echoes of my own experiences and my eldest daughter's experiences with public school were here. From the English teacher, to the Social Studies teacher, Mr. Tenner, and the blind devotion to conformity I have often seen in my mother (contrasted here as Nolan's father) despite her deep unhappiness with conformity. And although the book is presented in stark black and white, with little gray at all, I have quite literally heard MANY of the circular arguments for doing things a certain way that appear in this book. Literally, it felt like Tod had reached into my memories and ripped pages out of my life. Which then made me realize that my experiences must be far more common than I ever dreamed they could be. Solo Flight preaches to the choir. If you are already a devoted self-learner or unschooler, you may find yourself simply nodding along to much of it. If you are still new to the homeschooling world, you may feel it is a little over the... More > top, yet at the same time, a chord of sympathy will strike within. I don't think that there is a single, thinking, feeling adult in this world who has not heard at least one of the creativity-killing statements spoken by the characters in this book at least once. If you have ever felt a small undercurrent of uncertainty, a question that the world is not quite what it seems, that your early years were wasted within the halls of oppressive, controlling schools then I think you should read this book. That's my two cents...< Less
