Skybreaker

Informationen zum Autor KENNETH OPPEL is the bestselling author of numerous books for young readers. His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide and was adapted into an animated TV series and stage play. Airborn won a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award; its sequel, Skybreaker , was a New York Times bestseller and was named Children’s Novel of the Year by the Times (UK). Kenneth Oppel is also the author of Half Brother , This Dark Endeavor , The Boundless , The Nest , Every Hidden Thing , Inkling and the Bloom trilogy. His latest novel is Ghostlight . Ken Oppel lives with his family in Toronto. Zusammenfassung 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. In this thrilling sequel to Airborn , a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Kenneth Oppel 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Oppel
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2005
• EAN: 9780060532284
• ISBN: 978-0-06-053228-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION: General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Ghost Stories *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fairy Tales & Folklore / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Action & Adventure / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Coming of Age *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / Historical *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Historical / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / Romance