At, you'll always find today's top thrilling, amusing and amazing audio books, available for free download or streaming. Just click an audio book to hear it free and legally on Spotify, Deezer or Audible. Airborn and Skybreaker, the first two books in the series, have been among our best-selling and most-honored titles.

Part 3: Matt Cruse is back in the phenomenal third volume in Kenneth Oppel's bestselling, award-winning series - and this time he's heading for outer space.

While on lookout duty, he spots a damaged balloon carrying an unconscious old man. Summary Fourteen-year-old Matt Cruse is a cabin boy for the Aurora, an airship that stays afloat using a gas called 'hydrium'. The main characters are Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries. Matt Cruse is on the trail of that treasure, with the help of his charming society friend Kate de Vries and a mysterious gypsy girl named Nadira. Airborn is the first book in the Matt Cruse series by Kenneth Oppel.

Part 2: High in the sky, far above the normal lanes of travel, drifts a ghost ship carrying unbelievable treasure.

It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies.

Part 1: Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean. Today, I'm reading from the opening of AIRBORN, my novel set in an alternative past where airplanes have never been invented, and everyone travels aboard.

I recommend reading the other two books in the series, as well.Available free on Spotify, Deezer and Audible. This story is pure action-adventure, complete with pirates and a surivival storyline.

I really enjoy both Matt’s character and POV, as well as Kate’s curious and spunky character. The story follows Matt on his adventures with a girl he meets named Kate as they try to track down a mysterious winged creature mentioned in a journal of a dying ballooinst. Airborn is from the POV of Matt, a 15-year-old cabin boy of the airship Aurora. We were two nights out of Sydney, and thered been no weather to speak. Lately, about 90% of the books I’ve been reading have been from a female POV, and this is a good change of pace. When Matt Cruse, cabin boy on the luxury airship Aurora, fearlessly performs a dramatic rescue to save an old man from his damaged hot air balloon, he doesn’t know what events he’s setting in motion. Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crows nest, being the ships eyes. I know, interesting, right?Īs I re-read this, I remember how much I enjoyed the story and the characters. Airborn, the first in the series, is a YA adventure with a Titanic vibe and an undercurrent of zoology, set in an early 1900’s alternate reality where airships are the primary mode of transportation. When I was a pre-teen or teen, the Matt Cruse trilogy was one of my favorite series.

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