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Skybreaker
by Kenneth Oppel
ISBN: 0060532289
ISBN-13: 9780060532284
Format: Reinforced Hardcover
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Summary
Sixteen-year-old Sky Academy student Matt Cruse and wealthy teen adventuress Kate deVries embark on their most thrilling flying adventure ever in this gripping sequel to the Printz Honor Book AIRBORN. Struggling with challenging school work at the elite academy, Matt lives in Paris and dreams of returning to the skies. On a training mission gone horribly wrong, he witnesses a sighting of the legendary "Hyperion," a phantom ship much discussed since its disappearance 40 years ago and said to hold unspeakable wealth. Matt is the only person with the coordinates. Soon a pack of disreputable pirates is after him, but he and Kate decide to search for the ship on their own. SKYBREAKER is a wild adventure involving a mysterious Gypsy girl, horrifying sky predators, shocking discoveries, and a touch of first love.
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"Creative, compelling, nicely unpredictable and alive with nature and technology."
-- Kirkus
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Eos
Published date: 2005
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.25 pounds
Ages: 7 to 9
Pages: 304
Synopses
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
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Matt Cruse, the brave young cabin boy from Airborne and a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination. Reader's Guide available.
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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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Kenneth Oppel
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Eos, 2005. Hardcover. Brand New. 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.20. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 20.0 oz. Matt Cruse, the brave young cabin boy from Airborne and a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination. Reader's Guide available. Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination. -- Sixteen-year-old Sky Academy student Matt Cruse and wealthy teen adventuress Kate deVries embark on their most thrilling flying adventure ever in this gripping sequel to the Printz Honor Book AIRBORN. Struggling with challenging school work at the elite academy, Matt lives in Paris and dreams of returning to the skies. On a training mission gone horribly wrong, he witnesses a sighting of the legendary Hyperion, a phantom ship much discussed since its disappearance 40 years ago and said to hold unspeakable wealth. Matt is the only person with the coordinates. Soon a pack of disreputable pirates is after him, but he and Kate decide to search for the ship on their own. SKYBREAKER is a wild adventure involving a mysterious Gypsy girl, horrifying sky predators, shocking discoveries, and a touch of first love. Creative, compelling, nicely unpredictable and alive with nature and technology. -- Kirkus  (12/01/2005). " . ( more information)
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Brand new. <p>Former cabin boy Matt Cruse, now a student at the prestigious Airship Academy, is first to identify the Hyperion, the private airship of a reclusive and fabulously wealthy inventor that disappeared forty years ago with its owner. Armed with the Hyperion's coordinates, which only he possesses, Matt, heiress Kate de Vries, and a mysterious young gypsy board the Sagarmatha, an airship fitted with the new skybreaker engines that will allow them to reach the Hyperion, 20,000 feet above the earth's surface. Pursued by others who want the Hyperion and will stop at nothing to get it, and surrounded by dangerous high-altitude life forms, Matt and his companions are soon fighting not only for the Hyperion but for their very lives.</p> <p>In this thrilling sequel to <b>Airborn</b>, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, <b>Kenneth Oppel</b> evokes the classic storytelling of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Verne, creating a world in which a new discovery can have unimagined consequences -- on earth and miles above it.</p> ( more information)
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