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Also by Kenneth Oppel:

Every Hidden Thing, October 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Such Wicked Intent, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
This Dark Endeavor, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Starclimber, March 2009
Hardcover
Darkwing, September 2008
Paperback
Firewing, April 2008
Paperback
Sunwing, April 2008
Paperback
Silverwing, September 2007
Paperback
Dead Water Zone, September 2007
Paperback
Skybreaker, January 2007
Paperback
Airborn, June 2005
Mass Market Paperback

Airborn
Kenneth Oppel

EOS
June 2005
On Sale: May 24, 2005
Featuring: Matt Cruse
544 pages
ISBN: 0060531827
EAN: 9780060531829
Mass Market Paperback
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Fantasy Steampunk | Young Adult

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 balloonist's 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.

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