Kenneth Oppel
1) Airborn
Author
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperon, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. 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...
2) The nest
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means"--
3) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"It was just rain. But after the downpour, odd black plants begin to shoot up. Suddenly-- They. Are. Everywhere. They take over fields and twine around houses. They bloom and throw off toxic pollen--and feed. Strangely, three Salt Spring Island teens seem immune. Anaya, Petra and Seth. What's their connection? What's their secret? A week ago, they wouldn't have thought they had one. But they'd better figure it out fast--the invasion has already begun."--
The...
4) Hatch
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fans left desperate for more at the end of Bloom will dive into this second book of the Overthrow trilogy--where the danger mounts and alien creatures begin to hatch. First the rain brought seeds. Seeds that grew into alien plants that burrowed and strangled and fed. Seth, Anaya, and Petra are strangely immune to the plants' toxins and found a way to combat them. But just as they have their first success, the rain begins again. This rain brings eggs....
5) Inkling
Author
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group project at school--even though he can't draw. Sarah's still pining for a puppy. And they all miss Mom. So much more than they can say. Enter Inkling. Inkling begins life in Mr. Rylance's sketchbook. But one night the ink of his drawings runs together--and then leaps off the page! This small burst of creativity is about to change everything. Ethan finds him...
6) Starclimber
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
7) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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,...
8) Thrive
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the aliens begin their invasion of Earth, a rebel faction contacts Anaya and proposes a plan that would allow humans, hybrids, and cryptogens to coexist peacefully, though it is unclear if all hybrids will agree.
The alien invasion of Earth is imminent. But maybe not all the aliens are united. A rebel faction has reached out to Anaya, saying there's a way to stop the larger invastion--a way for humans and hybrids and cryptogens to work together....
10) Darkwing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.
11) Firewing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Griffin, a young bat, is sucked into the "Underworld," and his father follows to rescue him.
12) Sunwing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
13) Silverwing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Aladdin pbk. ed.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Peg, a big strapping seven-year-old lass who has caught everything else in the sea, joins the crew of the whaling ship Viper and sets out to catch herself a whale.
16) Ghostlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
389 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day... Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn't actually believe in ghosts--until he finds himself...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerous flight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in the Badlands, embedded deep in centuries-buried rock and sand, lies the skeleton of a massive dinosaur, larger than anything the late nineteenth century world has ever seen. To Samuel Bolt its the "rex", the king dinosaur that could put him and his struggling, temperamental archaeologist father in the history books. For Rachel Cartland this find could be her chance to prove herself on this expedition with her professor father. With both...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his grieving father orders the destruction of the Dark Library, Victor retrieves a book in which he finds the promise of not just communicating with the dead, but entering their realm, and soon he, Elizabeth, and Henry are in the spirit world of Chateau Frankenstein, creating and growing a body.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.