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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

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Author

Kenneth Oppel

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060850593

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, Young Adult

Rating

4.24 / 5 (9,255 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14