Stealing Air

A rocketbike.
A secret workshop.
A super-secret flyer.
And a giant smiling pig balloon.
Maybe Iowa won't be boring after all. . . .

Brian has always loved getting air—on his skateboard, in a plane, wherever he could. But now that his dad has moved the family to the Midwest, he won't have much of a chance to fly.

Or so he thinks. Then he meets Alex, the coolest guy in the sixth grade, and Max, the nerdiest. Max is building a real airplane in a secret laboratory hidden in a shed. There's just one problem with flying it. . . . He's scared of heights!

Brian and Alex leap at the chance to be pilots, and soon all three boys are working together to finish and test the plane. But a bully named Frankie, a beautiful girl named Wendy, and fights at home and at school all threaten to sink the project. Will the boys' plane ever get off the ground —or will they just be grounded for good?