{"id":9011,"date":"2017-09-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9011"},"modified":"2017-09-09T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T14:16:11","slug":"hijacked-in-1970-teen-girl-on-a-plane-by-miriam-moss-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9011","title":{"rendered":"Hijacked in 1970! teen Girl on a Plane, by Miriam Moss (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookFirst-time solo air trip,
\nnot her first time on this flight route.
\nFirst airline hijackings by terrorists<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The author was aboard this hijacked flight as a teenager in 1970, when no one knew just how far the Palestinian fighters would go with their threats to blow up the planes and passengers.<\/p>\n

Read an excerpt here<\/a> as the age of terrorism begins with the first plane hijackings as political statement. <\/p>\n

Girl on a Plane<\/em> is being released in paperback today, or find it in hardcover at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cooperate or fight back?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Girl on a Plane \/ Miriam Moss. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, 2016 (hardcover), 2017 (paperback). [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Flying back to boarding school from her father’s Army posting in Bahrain, Anna’s 1970 journey becomes a death watch as Palestinians hijack the BOAC plane headed for England!<\/p>\n

At 15, Anna is old enough to fly on her own passport, young enough to be seated with other kids returning to school, routine travel for them all.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, men in the cabin flourish guns, forcing the captain to fly far into the Jordanian desert where the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine guerillas await.<\/p>\n

Explosives are loaded onto the plane, food is not. With the engines off, their plane becomes a sweltering prison – Anna wonders if she, David, and young Tim with his pet turtle will ever get to school, will live to see another day…<\/p>\n

Based on the author’s experiences as a teen, this gripping story is a glimpse into the tension-filled history of the Middle East and the passion of those who’d risk anything and everything for their cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First-time solo air trip, not her first time on this flight route. First airline hijackings by terrorists! The author was aboard this hijacked flight as a teenager in 1970, when no one knew just how far the Palestinian fighters would go with their threats to blow up the planes and passengers. Read an excerpt here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,237,19,50],"tags":[309,7,75,11,20,5,70,37,16,32,18,40,247,43,310,71,49,311,184,31,312,15,21,35,33,3,6,28,59],"class_list":["post-9011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-historical","tag-bahrain","tag-beliefs","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-flying","tag-growing-up","tag-jordan","tag-kidnapping","tag-memories","tag-middle-east","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-author","tag-palestine","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-villains","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Girl-on-a-Plane.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9017,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions\/9017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}