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  <name><![CDATA[Kenneth Oppel]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I was born in 1967 in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia but spent the bulk of my childhood in Victoria, B.C. and on the opposite coast, in Halifax, Nova Scotia...At around twelve I decided I wanted to be a writer (this came after deciding I wanted to be a scientist, and then an architect). I started out writing sci-fi epics (my Star Wars phase) then went on to swords and sorcery tales (my Dungeons and Dragons phase) and then, during the summer holiday when I was fourteen, started on a humorous story about a boy addicted to video games (written, of course, during my video game phase). It turned out to be quite a long story, really a short novel, and I rewrote it the next summer. We had a family friend who knew Roald Dahl - one of my favourite authors - and this friend offered to show Dahl my story. I was paralysed with excitement. I never heard back from Roald Dahl directly, but he read my story, and liked it enough to pass on to his own literary agent. I got a letter from them, saying they wanted to take me on, and try to sell my story. And they did.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Port Alberni, British Columbia</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Airborn (Airborn Series, Book 1)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Skybreaker (Airborn Series, Book 2)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sunwing]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kenneth Oppel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Firewing]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kenneth Oppel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Darkwing]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kenneth Oppel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Silverwing Trilogy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The King's Taster]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Steve Johnson]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lou Fancher]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.63</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>35</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Dead Water Zone]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kenneth Oppel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.58</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>24</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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