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Author Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-

Title Airborn / Kenneth Oppel.

Edition First paperback edition.
Publication Info. New York : EOS, 2005.
©2004
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Description 501, 23 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Note Originally published: 2004.
"Michael L. Printz honor book"--P. [4] of cover.
Contents Ship's eyes -- Up ship! -- Kate -- Hot chocolate for two -- Log of the Endurance -- Szpirglas -- Sinking -- Island -- Bones -- Shipshape -- One that fell -- Shipwrecked -- Hydrium -- Nest -- Cloud Cat -- Rescue -- Pit -- Ship taken -- Airborne -- Airborn -- At anchor.
Summary Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonists granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.
Subject Airships -- Fiction.
Animals -- Fiction.
Pirates -- Fiction.
Adventure stories.
Genre Steampunk fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Young adult fiction.
ISBN 0060531800
9780060531805
0060531827 (pbk.)
9780060531829 (pbk)
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SRP 2012
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August 17 2012
SRP 2012 REVIEW: A good adventure novel about a world where instead of boats, theres blimps.
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October 12 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: I never had much interest in airplanes. But when we had a booktalk at my school about the genre Steampunk, I decided I liked it. This was the first book in that genre, and it made quite an impression on me. Now I like the author and the genre.
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