Airborn
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Price:
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$16.95
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On Sale:
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11/09/2007
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Formats:
Trade PB
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Imagine a past in which airplanes have never been invented and giant airships
rule the skies. Matt Cruse is the cabin boy of the Aurora, a 900-foot luxury
airship that ferries wealthy passengers around the globe. On a crossing of the
Pacificus, he helps rescue a dying balloonist who tells him of beautiful
creatures in the clouds. It is only after Matt meets Kate de Vries, the
balloonist’s granddaughter, that he realizes the man’s ravings may have been
true. But when pirates board and scuttle the Aurora, Matt and Kate’s search for
the truth takes a frightening new turn.
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature and many
other national and international honours, Kenneth Oppel’s tale of airships and
adventure is an instant classic of richly imagined fantasy, a novel for readers
of all ages.
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Critical Praise for
Airborn
"A funny, engaging adventure story--the kind you read in a day or two (or stay up late to finish)."
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The Globe and Mail
"A terrific, rollicking adventure set in a Victorian world traversed by airships. Matt is a lovely hero--fearless, smart, irreverent, sunny and agile as the young Indiana Jones."
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The Times (London)
"Oppel really is the successor to Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson."
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Victoria Times Colonist
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