Pub Date: March 1, 2008
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99-25322
Lexile Code: 0680
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.89" H x 7.62" L x 5.18" W ( 0.47 lbs) 336 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy | General | Action and Adventure | Animals | Mammals
Series: Silverwing Trilogy
Description: Shade, a young bat, searches for his father and struggles to prevent the eviljungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
Brief description: Kenneth Oppel is the author of numerous books for young readers. His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide and been adapted as an animated TV series and stage play. Airborn won a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award and the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature; its sequel, Skybreaker, was a New York Times bestseller and was named Children's Novel of the Year by the London Times. He is also the author of Half Brother, This Dark Endeavor, Such Wicked Intent, and The Boundless. Born on Canada's Vancouver Island, he has lived in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Canada; in England and Ireland; and now resides in Toronto with his wife and children. Visit him at KennethOppel.ca.
Review Quotes: "The plot is fast-ppaced and the characters well-defined."-- "VOYA"