Hot-air balloons, gliders, solar-powered planes ... Climb board and find out about the world of aircraft.

• Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.
• Text type - An information book.
• A contents page can be found at the front of the book and a glossary and index on pages 20 and 21.
• Curriculum links - History: 'events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally [for example, ... the first aeroplane flight]'