Kenneth Oppel - MC02 Skybreaker.nfo
General Information
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Title: MC02 Skybreaker
Author: Kenneth Oppel
Read By: David Kelly et al
Copyright: 2005
Audiobook Copyright: 2008
Genre: YA Alt History
Publisher: FullCast Audio
Series Name: Matt Cruse
Position in Series: 02
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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ISBN: 978-1934180334
Media: CDs
Number: 10
Source: Library
Condition: Good
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 39
Total Duration: 11:29:08
Total MP3 Size: 315.68
Parity Archive: No
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Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
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Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
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Book Description
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Ripper's Note:
Some of today's most imaginative, original writing is published
in the loosely labeled "Young Adult" category. It would be a
mistake to dismiss this book as a children's book or a juvenile,
though it wouldn't be inappropriate for a bright 6th-grader and
was probably targeted for that gray pre- to post-puberty range
of, say, 11 to 16. It is an extremely entertaining listen if
what you want is a fine story, well and imaginatively told.
This book is a sequel to "Airborn."
An Amazon user's review:
By Randall Richmond (Santa Rosa, CA United States)
This is one of the most perfectly paced novels I have ever read,
and I have read hundreds of books in my life. Like many writers,
Oppel can make you care about his characters, but that is just
one of the levels on which SKYBREAKER succeeds. His ability to
twist a cliche sideways and make it ring true is superb. His
tactful descriptions of Matt and Kate's feelings for each other
are realistic and enjoyable. The adventure aspects abound, yet
never seem rushed or over done. All in all a very entertaining
book, and one that I hope is just the second in a long running
series.
Amazon.com Review
In this breathtaking sequel to the Governor General's Award-
winning fantasy novel Airborn, 16-year-old Matt Cruse flies
higher than he ever dreamed. The former Aurora cabin boy, now a
student at the prestigious Paris Airship Academy, is on a two-
week training tour with a run-down cargo airship when his
captain sights a legendary ghost ship. Matt recklessly heads
skyward in pursuit--only to risk sacrificing his entire crew to
altitude sickness. The Hyperion, lost in a storm in the dawn of
the aviation age and buoyed high above the clouds for 40 years,
is rumoured to hold great wealth, and Matt is suddenly the only
person on earth who knows her coordinates.
Soon, he and his upper-class sweetheart, Kate de Vries, are
embarked on a dangerous aerial treasure hunt, along with Hal,
the conceited pilot of a sleek, new altitude-friendly airship,
and a mysterious gypsy girl named Nadira, who claims to have
the key to the Hyperion's booby-trapped treasure troves.
Drawing on the myths of Icarus and Prometheus, as well as
classic sea adventures like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and
The Poseidon Adventure, Skybreaker combines an action-packed
thriller with a sensitive exploration of the limits of human
ambition. Matt's jealousy of the self-made Hal (who he suspects
has designs on Kate) and his own furtive attraction to Nadira
heighten the emotional tension and raw suspense of the visceral
scenes aboard the Hyperion, an ice-entombed version of the
Titanic. With pirates, sky monsters, and disturbed spirits, not
to mention enough bizarre flying machines to fill an aviation
museum (even a bat-copter for Silverwing fans), Skybreaker
confirms Kenneth Oppel's reputation as Canada's leading fantasy
author for children and young adults. --Lisa Alward --This text
refers to the Hardcover edition.
From School Library Journal
Grade 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. The captain risks his life, the crew, and his
ship as he tries to reach the Hyperion to claim the fortune in
gold that's rumored to be aboard. His attempt fails after the
crew is stricken with altitude sickness. Only Matt remembers
the coordinates of where Hyperion was last seen. This knowledge
plunges him and Kate, now a pilot in training herself, into a
breakneck race against a pirate intent on getting to the riches.
They find themselves aboard a new type of pressurized ship
called Skybreaker piloted by Hal, a wealthy and dashing captain
with designs on Kate. What they discover aboard Hyperion is a
more fabulous treasure than any of them could have imagined.
That is, if they survive to tell anyone about it. This worthy
companion to Airborn maintains its roller-coaster thrills in
Library, NJ
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