Airborn Summary
Book Report #1 “Airborn” by Kenneth Oppel is about a 15 year old boy aboard an airship. He works as cabin crew and as lookout in the Crow’s nest. Matt Cruse tends to wealthy passengers that want a smooth ride across the seven seas. One night, he comes across a dying balloonist who speaks of magical creatures flying high in the clouds. Matt doubts the man’s ravings, but when he meets the man’s granddaughter, Matt realizes he’s in for a real adventure. The man had a journal, that gave his coordinates and all the things he saw. The book was fairly easy to read, and was intriguing from the beginning to the end. One example of this suspense is about halfway through the story, when pirates start boarding the Aurora, the great ship