{"product_id":"airborn-a-printz-honor-winner-9780060531829","title":"Airborn: A Printz Honor Winner","description":"\u003cp\u003eSailing 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. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling \u003cem\u003eSilverwing\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOppel, Kenneth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKENNETH OPPEL\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of numerous books for young readers. His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide. \u003ci\u003eAirborn\u003c\/i\u003e won the Governor General's Literary Award and was named a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. Oppel is also the author of \u003ci\u003eHalf Brother, This Dark Endeavour, The Boundless, The Nest, Inkling\u003c\/i\u003e and the Bloom trilogy. His latest novels are \u003ci\u003eGhostlight\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest of All Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award and named Children's Book of the Year by the Times. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52128890781970,"sku":"9780060531829","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1856d090-68a8-4147-a5ec-411d75885d13.jpg?v=1773822840","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/airborn-a-printz-honor-winner-9780060531829","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}