num_pages: 501
description: 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.
language: English
title: Airborn
titlecomplete: Airborn (Matt Cruse, #1)
characters: Kate de Vries, Matt Cruse
genres: Middle Grade, Audiobook, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Adventure, Teen, Steampunk, Fiction, Fantasy, Pirates
ratings_count: 25209
series: Matt Cruse
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Young Adult Book, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Sunburst Award
category: Canadian Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Michael L. Printz Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award
category: YA-Middle Reader, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Waterstones Children's Book Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: OLA Forest of Reading Red Maple Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: HarperCollins