About the Book

Handsome new editions celebrate the 10th anniversary of the award-winning aerial adventure that started it all.

Winner of the Governor General's Award, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and recipient of many other national and international honours, Airborn fired the imaginations of readers around the world when it was first published in 2004 and its popularity has never waned. Airborn was followed by the acclaimed sequels Skybreaker, winner of the Red Maple Award and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, and Starclimber, a Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award Honour Book. These stunning new editions with cover illustrations by Jim Tierney mark a new decade of soaring adventures for this trio of contemporary classics.

Resources

• Reading Guide

Product Details

• ISBN: 9781443433310
• ISBN 10: 1443433314
• Imprint: HarperTrophy
• On Sale: 04/22/2014
• Pages: 464
• List Price:13.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / General

Kenneth Oppel

Biography

Kenneth Oppel is the author of numerous books for young readers. His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide and was adapted into an animated TV series and stage play. Airborn won the Governor General's Literary Award and also won the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award. He is the author of Half Brother which won both the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award as well as the CLA Young Adult Book Award – the first time in the awards' history the same title has won both honours, This Dark Endeavor, Such Wicked Intent, The Boundless, and The Nest which won the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award. A two-time nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, he lives in Toronto with his wife and three children. Visit him online at www.kennethoppel.ca.

Other Works by Kenneth Oppel

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  Silverwing: The Graphic Novel

  By Kenneth Oppel

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  Thrive

  By Kenneth Oppel

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  Hatch

  By Kenneth Oppel