The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden: The Night Flyer's Handbook (The Night Flyer's Handbook (1))

So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, Gwendolyn wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brothers Batman balloons. Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks shes 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 shes 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? Shes not alone. Shortlisted for the OLA Red Maple Award, 2015 SEQUEL NEWS: Everton Miles is Stranger than Me, Oct 2016 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 brothers Batman balloons. Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks shes 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 shes 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? Shes not alone. Gwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until - one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with her many average teenage qualities, Gwendolyn Golden can also fly. What's happening to her?