Kenneth Oppel
Paperback | Pages: 501 pages Rating: 4.17 | 23016 Users | 1922 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Airborn |
| ISBN: | 0060531827 (ISBN13: 9780060531829) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Matt Cruse #1 |
| Characters: | Kate de Vries, Matt Cruse |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2005), Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2005), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2005), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2006), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2005) Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award for YA-Middle Reader (2005), OLA Forest of Reading Red Maple Award for Fiction (2005), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2007) |
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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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| Title | : | Airborn (Matt Cruse #1) |
| Author | : | Kenneth Oppel |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 501 pages |
| Published | : | May 24th 2005 by HarperCollins (first published May 11th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Young Adult. Adventure |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 23016 Users | 1922 ReviewsCriticize Based On Books Airborn (Matt Cruse #1)
I liked Matt as the protagonist. He was an intelligent and passionate young man who loved what he did. There is a lot of adventure in this book, especially at the end where it got especially exciting. Loved the creature that Kate's grandfather discovered and the mysterious island the Aurora lands on. Very cool world building. However, I found Kate extremely annoying. In the beginning I thought she was mildly irritating but by the middle she was pushing obnoxious. I appreciate persistence, butDamn straight.Ladies and gentlemen, this is YA. This is YA in all its shiny glory. If you're tired of beautiful supernatural new kids falling in love with the mortal they can't be with...Well. This is YA.Damn straight.
Dear author,I feel obliged to inform you of several things. I have just finished your book Airborn, and there were a few things that bothered me. For starters, do you know what happens when you clog the barrel of a gun? If you do so and pull the trigger, it does not make an anti-climatic little click that allows your hero to get away from the villain pointing the gun at him. It goes boom. You are seriously hurt, if not possibly dead.And your wording wasn't very clear, but I think you said
I'm rating this based on the memory that I loved it when I read it years ago, and I hand sold it a lot when I was a bookseller. An imaginative adventure.
2/1/18 $1.99 for Kindle.I really liked this one.Airborn is about a cabin boy on an passenger air ship. It takes place in an alternate history of our world - so it may be classified as fantasy, but it is not really a fantasy story - it's an adventure story. Has an 1800's or maybe Edwardian feel. It might appear to be more of a "boy book", but there is a main character who is a girl, so there's someone girls can relate to, and a bit of wholesome romance. I wouldn't assume girls wouldn't like this
I'm so glad I decided to listen to the Full Cast Audio production of this young adult novel. In fact, I didn't realize until after I had listened to it that it won a 2007 Audie Award. I believe it. I was riveted during this novel, even though I have read the book (and its sequel) before. Riveted while driving through whirling snow on a Chicago interstate is a little dangerous, but I survived.[return][return]Matt Cruse was born on an airship and has worked on one since the age of 12. He's only a
It starts of a little slow. But if you stick with it, you might be surprised. And even when it is slow, for some reason, it moved. It flowed very well. An enjoyable read.
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