# Airborn

**Author:** Kenneth Oppel
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 1997
**Page count:** 433
**Genre:** Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9780060531805`
**ISBN-10:** `0060531800`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/airborn
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . .Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city.

## Themes

- animals
- pirates
- science fiction
- imaginary creatures

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2008-2009 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2008-2009 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2008-2009 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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