Kenneth Oppel
1) Airborn
Author
Series
Airborn adventures volume 1
Language
English
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Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
2) Half brother
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Series
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English
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In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project-- an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills-- he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
3) Hatch
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Series
Overthrow volume 2
Language
English
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Fans left desperate for more at the end of Bloom will dive into this second book of the Overthrow trilogy--where the danger mounts and alien creatures begin to hatch. First the rain brought seeds. Seeds that grew into alien plants that burrowed and strangled and fed. Seth, Anaya, and Petra are strangely immune to the plants' toxins and found a way to combat them. But just as they have their first success, the rain begins again. This rain brings eggs....
4) The nest
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English
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"When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means"--
5) Ghostlight
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Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
1st edition.
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day...Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn't actually believe in ghosts--until he finds himself...
7) Silverwing
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English
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In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerous flight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.
8) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. They bloom--everywhere, unstoppable.Or are they? Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. Anaya,...
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English
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"Kenneth Oppel's compelling prose and Chris Steininger's dynamic illustrations work seamlessly together to reintroduce Shade to readers young and old. Shade is a young silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, millions of wingbeats to the south. During a fierce storm, he loses the others and soon faces the most incredible journey of his young life. Desperately...
10) Darkwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume Prequel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.
11) Firewing: 3
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Griffin, a young bat, is sucked into the "Underworld," and his father follows to rescue him.
12) Sunwing: 2
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 2
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
13) Skybreaker
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Series
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English
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Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
14) Inkling
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
16) Sunwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 2
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
17) Starclimber
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Series
Language
English
Description
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
18) Thrive
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
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Description
"The alien invasion of Earth is imminent. But maybe not all the aliens are united. A rebel faction has reached out to Anaya, saying there's a way to stop the larger invastion--a way for humans and hybrids and cryptogens to work together. Can they be trusted? Or is this a trap? It's not even clear if Anaya, Petra, and Seth are united--some of the hybrids think they'd be better off if the aliens won... With everything on the line, these three teens...
19) The Boundless
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Language
English
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Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
20) Firewing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 3
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Griffin, a young bat, is sucked into the "Underworld, " and his father follows to rescue him.
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