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Matt Cruse Series

This series transports readers to a world of sky-high adventure aboard magnificent airships. A young cabin boy finds himself embroiled in extraordinary discoveries after encountering mysterious creatures that inhabit the skies. The narratives are rich with suspense, imagination, and echoes of classic adventure tales. Dive into a world where airships traverse the skies above oceans, pirates lurk in the clouds, and unknown beings drift through the atmosphere.

Starclimber
Skybreaker
Airborn

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Airborn

    • 432 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    Handsome new editions celebrate the 10th anniversary of the award-winning aerial adventure that started it all Winner of the Governor General's Award, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and recipient of many other national and international honours, Airborn fired the imaginations of readers around the world when it was first published in 2004 and its popularity has never waned. Airborn was followed by the acclaimed sequels Skybreaker, winner of the Red Maple Award and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, and Starclimber, a Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award Honour Book. These stunning new editions with cover illustrations by Jim Tierney mark a new decade of soaring adventures for this trio of contemporary classics.

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    4.2

  2. Skybreaker

    • 544 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    A legendary ghost ship. An incredible treasure. A death-defying adventure.Forty years ago, the airship Hyperion vanished with untold riches in its hold. Now, accompanied by heiress Kate de Vries and a mysterious gypsy, Matt Cruse is determined to recover the ship and its treasures. But 20,000 feet above the Earth's surface, pursued by those who have hunted the Hyperion since its disappearance, and surrounded by deadly high-altitude life forms, Matt and his companions soon find themselves fighting not only for the Hyperion—but for their very lives.

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    4.3

  3. Starclimber

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    An exhilarating journey to the stars—or a heartbreaking battle for survival? Pilot-in-training Matt Cruse and his love interest, Kate de Vries, an expert on high-altitude life-forms, are invited aboard the Starclimber, a vessel that literally climbs its way into the cosmos. Matt secretly plans on asking Kate to marry him, but before they even set foot aboard the ship, Kate announces her engagement—to someone else. Despite this bombshell, and Matt's anguish, they embark on their journey into space, but soon the ship is surrounded by strange and unsettling life-forms, and the crew is forced to combat devastating mechanical failure. For Matt, Kate, and the entire crew of the Starclimber, what began as an exciting race to the stars has now turned into a battle to save their lives.

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    4.2