Inner World

Silverwing

By Kenneth Oppel

The plot of this book sounds like the perfect adventure for a noble hero: a dangerous journey with a cryptic map and a trusty companion. But here's the catch: the hero is an undersized bat. Shade, a newborn Silverwing, is separated from his colony during their winter migrations. With the help of an exiled Brightwing, he must find his colony and save them from marauding cannibal bats imported from the tropics. In an author's note, Oppel writes that he "liked the challenge of taking animals that many might consider 'ugly' or 'scary' and fashioning them into interesting, appealing characters"; he has done just that with Shade and his comrades. While these characters are not particularly well rounded, readers will sympathize with the young bat's sometimes foolhardy efforts to prove that he's more than the colony runt, and the villains?fire-carrying owls and six-foot, flesh-eating bats?will keep even reluctant readers engaged. However, the greatest strengths of this story lie in its fast-paced, cliff-hanging action and its setting within the hollow trees and bell towers of the bats' monochromatic nighttime world.

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Fils Du CIel

De  Kenneth Oppel

Matt Cruse est garçon de cabine sur le puissant aérostat l'Aurore. Ce vaisseau, c'est toute sa vie ! Matt n'est heureux que dans les airs. Une nuit, il tente de porter secours à un vieil homme qui dérive seul dans sa montgolfière en détresse. Avant de mourir, celui-ci aura le temps de confier à Matt qu'il a vu des créatures volantes fabuleuses. Le jeune homme ne prête guère attention à ses propos. Cependant, un an plus tard, lors d'une croisière, il rencontre Kate, la petite-fille du naufragé ; elle veut à tout prix poursuivre les recherches de son grand-père... Matt va être très vite entraîné dans une folle expédition, à la recherche de ces animaux mystérieux. Une aventure exaltante où, dans un univers à la Jules Verne, le merveilleux côtoie la cruauté, et où l'amour pourrait bien avoir le dernier mot...

 

Airborn

By Kenneth Oppel

Matt Cruise is a cabin boy on a tremendous airship that sails hundreds of thousands of feet above the ocean, ferrying enormously wealthy passengers from city to city. The airship is known as the Aurora, and Matt is ecstatic to have the chance to fly upon this ship day in and day out. It's what he's always dreamed of, as he often images himself as the gas that powers the ship. One night while aboard the Aurora, Matt meets a dying balloonist, who tells Matt about all kinds of beautiful creatures that drift through the skies. Matt, knowing that this sounds crazy, ignores what the man says. But later, when he meets the man's granddaughter, Matt realizes that the man's ravings could very well have been true. And that the creatures in which he spoke about, are completely true. As a fan of Kenneth Oppel's SILVERWING trilogy, I was ecstatic to hear about his newest addition to the literary world, AIRBORN. Let me tell you, I was not disappointed in even the slightest way. AIRBORN is an exciting thrill-ride of an adventure, that takes the reader through space, and clouds, where we get to meet up with pirates, voyagers, and all types of other humans and creatures who tour the sky day and night. Matt was an exciting character, who will be loved by readers, as he is very optimistic, and intelligent, and his imagination is much like a childs, what with his constant fantasies about sailing through the sky, and being the gas that powers the airship. Fans of Oppel's SILVERWING trilogy will find it hard to put down AIRBORN.

Erika Sorocco

 

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