The man tells Matt about mysterious ghostly creatures that he saw in the sky, then he passes away. Matt helps to rescue the injured pilot from the balloon.
One night while on watch, Matt spots a drifting hot air balloon that does not respond when the captain of the Aurora tries to raise it on the radio. Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the airship Aurora. Printz Award honor, and a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon award. The book has won several awards, including a Governor General's Award for children's literature, a Michael L. It is set in an alternate universe where airships and hot air balloons have replaced airplanes as the primary mode of travel. 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.Airborn is a 2004 science fiction young adult novel by Kenneth Oppel. 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. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. 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. 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.
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.
We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes.
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