Full Flight
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2.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas, calls fall football season, but for the forty-three members of the Fighting Enfield Marching Band, it’s contest season. And for new saxophonist Anna James, it’s her first chance to prove herself as the great musician she’s trying hard to be.
When she’s assigned a duet with mellophone player Weston Ryan, the boy her small-minded town thinks of as nothing but trouble, she’s equal parts thrilled and intimidated. But as he helps her with the duet, and she sees the smile he seems to save just for her, she can’t help but feel like she’s helping him with something too.
When her strict parents find out she’s been secretly seeing him and keep them apart, Anna and Weston learn what it truly means to fight for something they love. With the marching contest nearing and the two falling hard for one another, the unthinkable happens, and Anna is left grappling for a way forward without Weston.
Ashley Schumacher’s Full Flight is about how first love shapes us—even after it’s gone.
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Schumacher's (Amelia Unabridged) slow-burn romance follows high schoolers Anna James and Weston Ryan, who both read as white and yearn for a life away from Enfield, portrayed as "one of those absurdly small Texas towns" where football is paramount. Since gossip is the town's "lifeblood," Weston left the teens' high school to escape rumors surrounding his parents' divorce and another involving his having chopped down Enfield's memorial tree. He's now returning for his senior year, but the occurrences have shaken him. Anna, meanwhile, struggles to navigate her overbearing, financially stressed parents. When the two are paired to play a duet in marching band, their introspective tendencies and quirks make for a powerful and surprising connection. Their differences inspire each other, too: Anna is a motivated student, but struggles in band and often reverts to people pleasing, while Weston, a driven musician, struggles academically. Alternating first-person chapters slowly lay out the believably wrought teens' obstacles and budding feelings for one another in this character study that's interspersed with mentions of mental health and an extended metaphor about a nearly extinct bird searching for family. Ages 12–up.
