Kenneth Oppel
1) The nest
2) Ghostlight
3) Bloom
4) Hatch
5) Inkling
6) Thrive
7) Silverwing
8) Airborn
10) Skybreaker
11) Firewing
13) Sunwing
14) El nido
15) Starclimber
16) The Boundless
17) Darkwing
A train gets waylaid in the middle of nowhere, and Luke and his dad find themselves with four hours to kill before it's fixed. Just enough time for a trip to the mysterious, decrepit old museum on the edge of town. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.
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
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