Readers are going to fall in love with Kate from the word go. Furthermore, she is there to prove that her grandfather had seen some extremely marvelous creatures, while on his normal trips. Kate has traveled all the way to prove that her grandfather was not a crazy man. Kate is the granddaughter of the man who Matt had rescued from the balloon. Apart from being highly intelligent, Kate is a fast-talking woman who many at times might be a little bit headstrong. It does not take long before Kate de Vries arrives and ultimately turns Matt’s world inside out.

The encounter with the old man sticks in Matts’ head as he tries to establish what the old man had seen.

With the assistance of his team, Matt can rescue the balloonist, who before dying asks Matt whether he saw them. One evening, while Matt was on watch duty, he notices a balloon in distress. Matt is hopeful that one day he is going to become a junior sailor. Before, Aurora belonged to his father however, it now belongs to Matt. Matt Cruise is a boy who has always felt at home flying aboard Aurora, a luxury spaceship. The author does not specify the year that the story takes place and the extremely strange mix of technology makes things extremely hard to place the narrative. Unlike a majority of the alternate history narratives, author Kenneth Oppel does not give so much when it comes to world development. Aurora is a luxury cruise liner in a different world, where Jules’s dreams become a reality. A few months later, Oppel received a letter informing him that the agency wanted to publish Oppel’s story and try to sell it.Īirborn is the first installment in the Matt Cruise book series, and it follows the story of one Matt Cruise, a cabin boy who works on the Aurora spaceship. The family friend presented the narrative to Roald Dahl, and after reading the script, Roald Dahl decided to pass down the narrative to his agent. As luck would have it, one of the family friends knew renowned author Roald Dahl in person. The narrative eventually turned out to be a long narrative, and Kenneth Oppel was forced to rewrite the narrative for the next summer. During the summer holidays, when Kenneth Oppel was fourteen, Oppel began to pen down a humorous narrative about a boy who was addicted to video games. Oppel began by first penning down science fiction novels and then eventually moved to sorcery and sword tales. When Kenneth Oppel turned 12 years, he made up his mind that all he wanted was to become an author. However, despite the fact that Opel was born in Port Alberni, he spent a bigger part of his childhood days in Victoria, BC, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Kenneth Oppel was born in the year 1967, in the mill town of Port Alberni located on Vancouver Island, BC.

Airborn book series