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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... smiled. “Mr. Cruse, I look at you, and of all the men, you're the one who shows not the slightest hint of fear. Am I right?” “Yes, sir. I have no fear of heights.” “I know it, Mr. Cruse.” And he did, for I'd served aboard his ship for ...
... , clapping me on the back, voices saying, “Well done,” and me trying not to smile but smiling and laughing anyway because it felt so good to know I'd brought the gondola in, saved the pilot, and impressed everyone. All these men who had.
... smile. “I think not, Matt. Even if he were back on shore, his heart and lungs are so damaged there's not much to be done.” “Who is he?” “Benjamin Molloy. According to the ship's papers he was trying to make a solo circumnavigation.” You ...
... smiled kindly. “The dying often say strange things. It's got nothing to do with you.” But that night, on my watch, Benjamin Molloy's words sounded over and over in my head, and I wondered what it was he'd seen. Or thought he'd seen ...
... smiled and served and yes ma'amed and no sired with the best of them, and I believe I even had an extra spring in my step—for I had high hopes that this was to be my last voyage as cabin boy. There were rumors that Tom Bear, our assistant.
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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 | |