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| - The Girl Who Could Fly starts out in with your typical farm girl in your typical Midwestern town. Her hobbies include milking cows, speaking in a Funetik Aksent, and practicing her flying skills. Wait, what? It's Little House On the Prairie meets X Men and it's much Better Than It Sounds. The story follows Piper McCloud from birth, where her family discovers that she can float. Her parents try to keep her from the other children and convince her that floating is bad, but an insatiable curiosity soon grips hold of her, and one day she jumps off the roof to try flying. Luckily, she succeeds.
- The Girl Who Could Fly is a bestselling children's novel by Victoria Forester. It is about Piper McCloud, a young girl raised by traditional parents in a small country town who has always been able to hover in the air. Spirited Piper has always been a bit of a bother to her parents; she asks deep questions they cannot answer, wonders too much about the way things are, and spontaneously floats. One day, after seeing a mother bird nudge one of its babies out of the nest, Piper decides to jump off her roof to see if she can fly. When she discovers she can, she is overjoyed and starts to practice immediately. Once she has the hang of it, Piper spends all her free time flying over her town and observing its residents while doing so. Piper gradually begins to lose her spunk once she makes a habi
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| - The Girl Who Could Fly starts out in with your typical farm girl in your typical Midwestern town. Her hobbies include milking cows, speaking in a Funetik Aksent, and practicing her flying skills. Wait, what? It's Little House On the Prairie meets X Men and it's much Better Than It Sounds. The story follows Piper McCloud from birth, where her family discovers that she can float. Her parents try to keep her from the other children and convince her that floating is bad, but an insatiable curiosity soon grips hold of her, and one day she jumps off the roof to try flying. Luckily, she succeeds. It's not long before word gets out, and we learn that a town that could, as far as we know, be in the 1860s is still in the modern age as a helicopter arrives to take her to The Institute of Normalcy, Sability, And Non Exceptionality. Just look at the acronym if the name doesn't convey the intention well enough.
- The Girl Who Could Fly is a bestselling children's novel by Victoria Forester. It is about Piper McCloud, a young girl raised by traditional parents in a small country town who has always been able to hover in the air. Spirited Piper has always been a bit of a bother to her parents; she asks deep questions they cannot answer, wonders too much about the way things are, and spontaneously floats. One day, after seeing a mother bird nudge one of its babies out of the nest, Piper decides to jump off her roof to see if she can fly. When she discovers she can, she is overjoyed and starts to practice immediately. Once she has the hang of it, Piper spends all her free time flying over her town and observing its residents while doing so. Piper gradually begins to lose her spunk once she makes a habit out of flying, which her parents notice and become concerned. In an attempt to cheer their daughter up, Mr. and Mrs. McCloud allow Piper to come to the local Fourth of July picnic with them. When she is at the picnic, Piper tries to make friends with the other kids but does so awkwardly and ends up driving herself away from them. But then a baseball game is started up among the children, and Piper sees it as her last chance to prove her worth. She joins, only to fail miserably, and finally can't take it any longer so she flies up to catch the ball in front of all the townspeople. Soon enough Piper and her incredible flying become a topic of worldwide interest and one day she wakes up to the sound of millions of paparazzo outside her door. A little scared, she remains inside her bedroom for as long as possible. Eventually the paparazzi clears and the McClouds hear a knocking on the door. It is Dr. Letitia Hellion, head of I.N.S.A.N.E., a government facility for those who possess exceptional talents. Once she agrees to go there, Piper is whisked away to I.N.S.A.N.E., where she meets others with supernatural abilities and finally feels happy. She spends many of her days in a cheery daze, until the taunting of Conrad Harrington III, her genius classmate, snaps her back to reality. Conrad tells her all about I.N.S.A.N.E.'s true intentions, which are to convert all of its subjects back to normality. Piper is horrified but sees that what Conrad says is true. Together they convince the others of what Dr. Letitia Hellion's deeds and formulate an escape plan. It fails due to a deal Conrad struck with Dr. Hellion, though none of the others (including Piper) knows this. Piper tells Dr. Hellion she was the ringleader of the escape and is tortured for her "misbehavior". While being tortured there is a reappearance of the ownerless voice, who reveals himself as J, a man who has the power of invisibility and has come to get Piper out of the institution. But she refuses to leave the others behind and makes J reluctantly leave. After a surgical procedure, Piper's brain is wiped clean of the knowledge that she can fly. But soon enough her classmates help her remember and they all suddenly revolt against I.N.S.A.N.E.'s authority. Once the children have taken over, they go outside for the first time in a while, only to find an extremely angry and disheveled Dr. Hellion waiting outside. Piper tries to fly away but Letitia catches her ankle and gets dragged up into the sky with her. Eventually she lets go, only to show everyone that she, too, can fly. But Letitia drops out of the air and dies. Confused, all the children go home except Conrad. Instead he is adopted by the McClouds since his biological parents have disowned him. The book closes with Piper and Conrad looking at the night sky together.
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