Skybreaker - Hardcover

Oppel, Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340878576 ISBN 13: 9780340878576

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books, 2005

Synopsis

Matt Cruse has been accepted at the Airship Academy, his days as cabin boy over for the moment. He has difficulty settling down to life on land, but is helped by the fact that Kate is in Paris too.

During a training flight aboard the freighter Flotsam, Matt helps save the ship when it is caught in a deadly storm over the Indian Ocean, and thrust to dangerously high altitudes. There, Matt spies a frozen airship, drifting aimlessly at 20,000 feet - it's the legendary ghost ship Hyperion. Rumoured to be carrying great wealth, the Hyperion left harbour fifty years ago, but never reached her destination. No wreckage was ever found ... until now.

And it is not just gold the Hyperion is reputed to carry, but a collection of strange zoological specimens. Kate is desperate to recover them, and she and Matt embark on the most dangerous of treasure hunts ...

About this title

Review:

Fasten your seatbelt for some terrific reading ... this is the kind of adventure children love best. (The Times)

A breathtakingly thrilling series of adventures ... an immensely readable and gripping story. (The School Librarian)

Airborn: 'A terrific, rollicking adventure ... filled with irresistible optimism and zest' (The Times)

This is gripping stuff. (The Bookseller)

a tightly plotted, fast-paced adventure with engaging and humorous characters (TES)

Silverwing trilogy: 'cracking stories, brimming with adventure, redolent of great mythical sagas of the past, alive with invention, thoughtful - at times profound and probing - and never faltering when it comes to thrills and page-turning power.' (Carousel)

Oppel's achievement is to have created much more than an action adventure involving bats . . . He explores their collective dreams and aspirations, as well as their individual characters. Sunwing is a truly spell-binding sequel which combines breathtaking suspense with humorous character development. (Literary Review)

From the Publisher:

'Skybreaker' was voted Book Of The Year by both The Times and
The Independent.

This is another thrilling adventure story set high in the sky – at
altitudes never before explored. Complete with feisty hero and heroine
drawn together from different social backgrounds, lost treasure, high-speed
chases and much more...

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0340878576
• ISBN 13: 9780340878576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464