Stealing Air — Trent Reedy

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?