false <![CDATA[Airborn (Airborn Series, Book 1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174668473m/428042.jpg 428042 24 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 <i>Silverwing</i> 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. 2519210 book 2004 Airborn (Airborn Series, Book 1) total:1306|5:540|4:522|3:216|2:20|1:8| 1306 5484 1870 277 4 2 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Oct 17 13:00:56 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 13:00:56 -0700 2008 Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel. This 2005 Printz honor title reads just like watching a movie. Mr. Cruse is awfully young to work aboard a luxury airship. Even if he is only a cabin boy, he aspires to greater responsibility. Luckily, many opportuni...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Dec 21 19:21:21 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 04 21:39:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 16 03:25:56 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 02 07:42:43 -0700 2009
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 appea...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 17:03:14 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 13:29:40 -0700 2007 There is admittedly an odd subplot with mysterious creatures which is...more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Sep 30 12:40:23 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:40:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 18:58:36 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 19:03:52 -0800 2009
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In the air he feels most a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 02 16:17:30 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 16:20:02 -0800 2009 By: Kenneth Oppel

The book Airborn is a fiction action book that takes place in the 1920’s.
In Airborn a young Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the lighter-than-air-craft Aurora. While on their fight to Australia the ship is invaded by air pirates and damaged by a storm. Th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 08:25:30 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 08:26:38 -0700 2009 Airborn introduces a re-imagined Edwardian past in which luxury airships, held aloft by a non-flammable natural gas called Hydrium, circumnavigate the globe. Matt Cruse is a fifteen-year-old cabin boy of one such airship. When the lovely and headstrong Kate de Vries comes aboard, M...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 25 08:02:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 08:59:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 10:08:42 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 10:28:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 06 20:36:43 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 20:38:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 00:56:10 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 23:50:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 14:35:04 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 11:03:46 -0700 2009 1
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