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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... into the speaking tube. She looked like she'd endured a bit too much. Maybe a storm had punctured her envelope or bashed her about some. And still no sign of the pilot in the gondola. Along the length of the speaking tube I heard tinny.
A Printz Honor Winner Kenneth Oppel. Along the length of the speaking tube I heard tinny murmurings from the control car as the captain conferred with the bridge officers. “It's not on the flight plan,” I heard Mr. Torbay, the navigator ...
... heard Mr. Rideau mutter. “Mr. Kahlo, Mr. Chen. Grappling hooks.” I watched as the two men took hold of their heaving lines, each tipped with a fourpronged grapple. The engines had all but stopped, and the Aurora slid slowly alongside ...
... heard the crew above in the Aurora, cheering me. I heaved myself up, scrabbling with my feet for purchase, and then crashed over into the gondola. Beside the man. But there was not time to tend to him. I stood, grabbed hold of the ...
... heard the captain's voice. “Bay doors closed, please! Mr. Kahlo, call the bridge and tell them to take her back to seven hundred feet.” And then everyone was at the side, looking over into the gondola. Doc Halliday was climbing in ...
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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 | |