The+Corps+Of+The+Bare-Boned+Plane

Name: The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane Author: Polly Horvath Summary: When an accident leaves teenage cousins Meline and Jocelyn parentless, they come to live with their unknown and strange Uncle Marten who lives on his private island. They soon discover that the island has a history: it was once an air force training camp, led by a mad commander who had a crazy plan to train pilots to fly airplanes without instruments. Jocelyn, Meline, and Uncle Marten are soon joined on this island of wrecked planes and wrecked men by an elderly Austrian housekeeper, a very mysterious butler, a cat, and a dog. But to Jocelyn and Meline, being in a strange new place around strange new people only underscores the fact that the world they once knew has