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Airborn A Printz Honor Winner

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ISBN-10: 0060531827

ISBN-13: 9780060531829

Edition: 2005 (Reprint)

Authors: Kenneth Oppel

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 4.19" wide x 6.75" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

KENNETH OPPEL is the Governor General's Award-winning author of the Airborn series and the Silverwing Saga, which has sold over a million copies worldwide. His most recent novels are Half Brother , winner of both the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and the Young Adult Book Award; This Dark Endeavour , finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award; and Such Wicked Intent , finalist for the CLA Young Adult Book Award. Canada's nominated author for the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award, he lives in Toronto with his wife and three children.WEB:KENNETHOPPEL.CA FACEBOOK: KENNETH OPPEL TWITTER: @KENNETHOPPEL

Ship's Eyes
Up Ship!
Kate
Hot Chocolate for Two
The Log of the Endurance
Szpirglas
Sinking
The Island
Bones
Shipshape
The One That Fell
Shipwrecked
Hydrium
Nest
The Cloud Cat
Rescue
The Pit
Ship Taken
Airborne
Airborn
At Anchor