When Andrew's family moves house, he strikes up an unexpected friendship with his neighbour Victor. There isn't a thing Victor doesn't know about the RAF planes flying overhead and the two boys are soon busy tracking their movements.
Then Andrew discovers that Victor's beloved Lightnings are due to be scrapped...
Thunder and Lightnings won the Carnegie Medal in 1976.
Jan Mark has garnered numerous honors and awards for her work. She has written more than forty-five books, has contributed reviews to the Times Literary Supplement, and has edited the definitive The History of the Children’s Short Story for Oxford University Press. She makes her home in Oxford, England.
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