Airborn

English

ISBN: 0060531827

EAN: 9780060531829

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic/Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / Pirates/Juvenile Fiction / General/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 06/01/2005

Age Range: 13-null

Synopsis: Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crows nest, being the ships eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and thered 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 Matts always wanted; convinced hes 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 mans 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.

Awards: Arizona Young Readers Award – null  American Library Association Notable Books for Children – null  Beehive Young Adults Book Award – null  Black-Eyed Susan Book Award – null  CLA Book of the Year for Children Award – null  Evergreen Young Adult Book Award – null  Michael L. Printz Award – null  Nutmeg Childrens Book Award – null  Governor Generals Literary Awards – null  Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award – null  Maud Hart Lovelace Award – null  Garden State Teen Book Award – null  Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award – null  Iowa Teen Award – null  Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Childrens Book Award – null  Grand Canyon Reader Award – null  Manitoba Literary Awards - Young Readers Choice Award – null  Sunburst Award – null  Virginia Readers Choice Awards – null  Young Readers Choice Award – null 

Airborn

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.09 inches

Width: 4.19 inches

Length: 6.75 inches

Weight: 9.21 oz

Pages: 544