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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060531800
ISBN-139780060531805
eBay Product ID (ePID)5982339
Product Key Features
Book TitleAirborn : a Printz Honor Winner
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicAction & Adventure / Pirates, Fantasy & Magic, General, Steampunk, Thrillers & Suspense, Fantasy / Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
AuthorKenneth Oppel
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience
LCCN2003-015642
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsFirewing: "Plenty of rousing action; special effects on a grand scale; a leavening of humor as well as stimulating thoughts.", Firewing: "Plenty of rousing action; special effects on a grand scale; a leavening of humor as well as stimulating thoughts." -- School Library Journal
Grade FromEighth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Grade ToUP
SynopsisThe author of the Silverwing trilogy creates a new fantasy in which humans fly but the airplane has never been invented. In the early 20th century, a young orphan serves as a cabin boy aboard an airship and is witness to life-and-death battles in the sea and above land., 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.
LC Classification NumberPZ7.O614Ai 2004
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- 28. Dez. 2021
The whole family can share the adventure
The adventure never stops with each chapter. Even though the book is for young adults, grownups are going to love it too. Wonderful book that should become a movie!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
