Skybreaker-- a review by Blake Hughes

Skybreaker
by Kenneth Oppel
***** Stars

The book Skybreaker is about a determined ex-cabin boy named Matt Cruse, a rich and smart Miss Kate de Veres and a group of different people who are risking it all to find a famous airship called the “Hyperion”, which is the ship that belonged to the famous inventor Theodore Grunnel that has been lost for 40 plus years. It starts out where Matt is doing an internship as a assistant navigator on a freighter called the “Floatsom”, and during one of their trips the lookout calls down and says that he sees a ship that is at a height of 20,000 feet, which is the “Hyperion”. They try to reach it but as they get higher and higher they start losing oxygen so they have to turn back. Then he goes back to Paris, where he is going to the world famous Airship Academy, he goes and has lunch with Kate and tells her about all that he has been through. Then Kate gets the idea that she wants to go get it and asks Matt to help her do it. Then after that his principle tells him that Theodore Grunnel's grandson has asked if Matt will give him the coordinates of the “Hyperion”. Matt goes to meet Grunnel's grandson and he finds out that he is a fake and is a pirate. They try to take him away so that Matt will give them he meets a girl named Nidria who says she has the key to the “Hyperion”. Then Matt meets another man whose name is Hal Slater who is the captain of a airship called a skybreaker named the Sagarmatha. And the journey begins. It is a great book full of action, thrills, and a little bit of romance. I highly recommend this book.