We Will Be Crashing Shortly

A young girl with a big attitude, April ("Crash") Manning first made headlines in the critically acclaimed novel Unaccompanied Minor, "A sky-high winner all the way from coast to coast" -Kirkus Reviews Now April is back, and back in trouble, this time in a plane ditched at sea, where she has to use all her wits to try to save her best friend and the crew No can say that April Mae Manning's life is boring. Raised as an "airplane kid", jetting between divorced parents, April ran away from her tyrant stepdad, using all her flight attendant mom's benefits, only to interrupt a hijacking and help land a bombed plane. Now almost sixteen and a student pilot, she's earned the media nickname "Crash" for having survived five crashes-although two of them were trying to pass her driver's test. Unbelievably in the midst of another air mishap, she's stranded with the crew and her best friend Malcolm in a disabled DC-9 in the middle of an ocean. Despite her knack for smart-mouthing her way out of big trouble, April may at last be in too deep. In a thriller both nail-biting and hilarious, 'We Will Be Crashing Shortly' proves why the first April Mae Manning book, 'Unaccompanied Minor', scored perfect landings coast to coast. AUTHOR: Hollis Gillespie is an award-winning humor columnist. She is also a best-selling author, teacher, NPR commentator, and professional speaker. Her first two collections of essays have been optioned by ABC for a TV show by the creator of Gilmore Girls. Kirkus Reviews lauded Gillespie's "impeccable comic timing" for her first novel, titled Unaccompanied Minor ("A laugh-out-loud thriller about family court, money laundering and skyjacking").