Airborn

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HarperCollins, 2008¦~8¤ë5¤é - 432 ­¶

Enter a past in which airplanes have never been invented, giant airships rule the skies and the glittering skyscrapers of Lionsgate City, Canada¡¦s greatest metropolis, rise near the Pacificus Ocean. When Matt Cruse, cabin boy on the luxury airship Aurora, fearlessly performs a dramatic rescue to save an old man from his damaged hot air balloon, he doesn¡¦t know what events he¡¦s setting in motion. Will he and the balloonist¡¦s fiery granddaughter, Kate de Vries, be able to solve the mystery of impossible flying creatures seen among the clouds? And will they figure it out before pirates and shipwreck end their voyage forever?
Winner of the Governor General¡¦s Award for Children¡¦s Literature and many other national and international honours, Kenneth Oppel¡¦s tale of aerial adventure has fired the imaginations of readers around the world. An instant classic!

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Kenneth Oppel is the author of Skybreaker and Airborn (winner of the Governor General¡¦s Award), as well as the Silverwing Saga (Silverwing, Sunwing and Firewing), which has sold over one million copies worldwide and has won numerous prizes, including the Mr. Christie¡¦s Book Award and the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, as well as many children¡¦s choice awards across the country. His other titles include Peg and the Whale, Dead Water Zone and The Live-Forever Machine. Voted children¡¦s author of the year by Canadian booksellers in 2006, he lives in Toronto with his wife and three children. You can find him online at kennethoppel.ca and on Twitter at @kennethoppel.

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