Airborn
Airborn

Airborn

Written by Kenneth Oppel
Book #1 in the Airborn Series
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12 - 15
Reading age
501
Page count
760L
Lexile measure
May 24, 2005
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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 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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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780060531829
    Publication Date
    May 24, 2005
    Publisher
    HarperCollins
    Original Publication Date
    May 11, 2004
    Page Count
    501
    Audience
    Young Adult
    Reading Age
    12 - 15 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2003015642
    WorldCat Number (OCLC)
    150333757
    Lexile® Level
    760L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~R
    Est. ATOS® Book Level
    ~4.9

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