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Skybreaker
By Oppel, Kenneth
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06053-227-7 978-0-06053-228-4
- Publisher
- Eos HarperCollins
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2005
Gr 6-10 Oppel does it again! This action-packed sequel to "Airborn" (HarperCollins, 2004) starts with a bang and doesn't let up until the satisfying ending. Matt Cruse, now a student at the Airship Academy, finds himself training as a navigator aboard a worn out, tumbledown cargo airship piloted by a reckless captain. Flying through a typhoon at dangerously high altitudes, they see a ghost ship that set out 40 years before and was never seen again. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2006
After the excitement of his encounters with pirates, cloud cats, and the rich and alluring Kate de Vries, Matt Cruse finds life at the Airship Academy significantly anticlimactic. When, on a training mission, he glimpses the legendary Hyperion, the ghost airship that is the relic of a crazed jillionaire's last hurrah, he sees a fast-track to the wealth he needs to woo Kate properly. Enter shady thugs, a mysterious gypsy girl, a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
