Airborn: A Printz Honor WinnerHarper Collins, 2009年9月22日 - 544 頁 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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... hand. The bay was stacked high with wooden crates and steamer trunks and oversize baggage, but a narrow path ran like a canyon through it all and finally opened out into a large clear area near the loading doors in the ship's hull ...
... was deathly white in the flare of the Aurora's spotlight. But then I saw him stir slightly, a hand twitch. The davit's arm slowly swung all the way out, as far as it would go. It was still at least six feet shy of the.
... hands testing the straps and buckles. “Be careful, lad,” he told me quietly, then stepped back. “All right, Mr. Cruse. Hook yourself up to the davit, and we'll swing you over.” He said it as if he were proposing a stroll up to ADeck to ...
... didn't really know what else to do, so I just held his hand and said, “There now, we're almost aboard, and Doc Halliday will take a look at you and get you all sorted out.” For a moment it looked like his eyes might open, but.
... hand and the man's wrist with the other, knowing I had not the strength to hold us both in if the gondola tried to tip us out. I looked up and saw the hook screeching along the burner frame, sparking, about to come off the ripped metal ...
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Kate | |
Hot Chocolate for | |
The Log of the Endurance | |
Szpirglas | |
Sinking | |
The Island | |
Nest | |
The Cloud | |
Rescue | |
The | |
Ship Taken | |
Airborne | |
Airborn | |
At Anchor | |
Bones | |
Shipshape | |
The One That Fell | |
Shipwrecked | |
Hydrium | |
About the Author | |
Praise | |
Credits | |
Copyright About the Publisher | |