![]() ![]() As the pirates depart a sudden storm blows the ships together and cripples the Aurora. The Aurora is attacked by air pirates who rob the rich passengers. Kate has her grandfather’s journal that describes the strange animals he observed and she is determined to locate and photograph the mysterious animals. ![]() On a trip back across the Pacificus a year later Matt discovers that one of the passengers is Kate de Vries, the granddaughter of the dead hot-air balloon pilot. Before dying the severely injured man speaks of some fantastic, beautiful creatures he has observed and remarks that, “Kate would’ve loved them.” While on watch on a trip over the Pacificus Matt helps rescue an old man from a crippled hot-air balloon. ![]() Matt knows every inch of the Aurora, the same ship from which his father dropped to his death while making repairs during a storm. ![]() The story is told by fifteen-year-old Matt Cruse, who is a cabin boy on the luxury airship Aurora. Ken Oppel has created a story in which great airships filled with hydrium, the lightest gas in the world, travel between continents. Airborn is an exciting, Jules Verne like, adventure story set in an imaginary past. ![]()
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