Skybreaker - Couverture rigide

Oppel, Kenneth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060532270 ISBN 13 : 9780060532277

Editeur : Eos, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Oppel Kenneth

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

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)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Former cabin boy Matt Cruse, now a student at the prestigious Airship Academy, is first to identify the Hyperion, the private airship of a reclusive and fabulously wealthy inventor that disappeared forty years ago with its owner. Armed with the Hyperion's coordinates, which only he possesses, Matt, heiress Kate de Vries, and a mysterious young gypsy board the Sagarmatha, an airship fitted with the new skybreaker engines that will allow them to reach the Hyperion, 20,000 feet above the earth's surface. Pursued by others who want the Hyperion and will stop at nothing to get it, and surrounded by dangerous high-altitude life forms, Matt and his companions are soon fighting not only for the Hyperion but for their very lives.

In this thrilling sequel to Airborn, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Kenneth Oppel evokes the classic storytelling of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Verne, creating a world in which a new discovery can have unimagined consequences -- on earth and miles above it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Eos
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060532270
• ISBN 13: 9780060532277
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible