Time to fly away with Wings by Terry Pratchett.
This book was the conclusion to the truly odd Bromeliad Trilogy. I’m still not certain what I think about the series as a whole, but if you like stories about tiny people stealing vehicles and having existential crises, this will deliver!
In this final book, the Nomes – alien garden gnomes – take to the skies and goes to Florida to find their ancient spaceship.
They then learn how to fly geese.
It’s weird.
Wings
by Terry Pratchett
Somewhere out there, the ship is waiting to take them home . . .
Here’s what Masklin has to do: Find Grandson Richard Arnold (a human!). Get from England to Florida (possibly steal jet plane for this purpose, as that can’t be harder than stealing the truck). Find a way to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever those are). Then get the Thing into the sky so that it can call the Ship to take the nomes back to where they came from.
It’s an impossible plan. But he doesn’t know that, so he tries to do it anyway. Because everyone back at the quarry is depending on him — and because the future of nomekind may be at stake . . .
