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Unaccompanied Minor
Unaccompanied Minor
Unaccompanied Minor
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Unaccompanied Minor

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Fourteen-year-old April May Manning spent her life on airplanes with her flight attendant parents. When her father dies in a crash, April's mom marries a pilot who turns out to be an abusive jerk, and gets Mom confined to a psychiatric hospital. So April takes off, literally, living on airplanes, using her mother's flight benefits, relying on the flight crews who know she's been shuttling between divorcing parents for a year. Then, there's a hijacking, but why is April's "dad" on board? April flees to the cargo hold with another unaccompanied minor she's met before, and they fight to thwart the hijackers, faking a fire, making weapons from things they find in luggage. At last, locked in the cockpit with a wounded police officer, the boy, and his service dog, April tries to remember everything her parents said to do in a crisis above the clouds. But she knows it won't be enough.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 2, 2013
ISBN9781440567742
Unaccompanied Minor
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Hollis Gillespie

Hollis Gillespie is a humor columnist, writer and comedian based in Atlanta, Georgia. She wrote for Atlanta's Creative Loafing weekly for eight years until October 2008.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    I did find Unaccompanied Minor amusing, but I think it had a lot of problems in terms of pace and plotting.Unaccompanied Minor is a short, YA adventure novel about a fourteen year old girl who comes from a long legacy of airline employees. When her mom’s in a psychiatric hospital and someone tries to kidnap her from her stepfather’s apartment, fourteen year old April Manning survives by living in airport lounges and passing as a flight attendant. Then, she happens to be on a plan when it gets unexpectedly hijacked by the same people who tried to kidnap her earlier. She has to save the day with the help of a wounded police officer, another unaccompanied minor, his service dog, and a 67 year old flight attendant named Flo.Unaccompanied Minor is told through a compilation of various documents, mainly an after the fact interview by the police. I don’t think this structure worked well. For one, it meant that the entire first half of the book kept suggesting what would happen and referring to future events, which took forever to arrive. This is not a long book – only about 250 pages – but so much of it was spent explaining April’s family history instead of focusing on the main events. That combined with the style led to an ambling mess of a book.All that said, Unaccompanied Minor was still funny in parts, if not laugh out loud hilarious. There were a few good running jokes – I liked the repetition of “We see things differently.” However, the most interesting part of this book was its setting in the aviation industry (particularly since it was written by a flight attendant…). It led me to wonder how many of the insiders secrets were true, such as the character Flo who had a secret smoking spot on every different model plane.In the end, I would only reluctantly recommend Unaccompanied Minor as a lighter read.Originally posted on
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    On her fifteenth birthday, April Manning, whose family members all work for an airline and who has been hiding by taking one flight after another, relates the events leading up to her making a bomb threat on a jet.

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  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    There is just TOO MUCH with this book. The author tried to cram in every horrific, terrifying, and interesting plotline; within the first ten or so pages, I was rolling my eyes. Absolutely nothing about this book is remotely believable, and not in a fun way.

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