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Kenneth Oppel

Kenneth Oppel was born in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Kenneth wrote his first book Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure when he was 14 years old. The book was published in 1985 in Britain and the US. He did his BA at the University of Toronto (a double major in cinema studies and English) and wrote his second children's novel The Live-Forever Machine in his final year, for a creative writing course. . You can find out more about Kenneth at his web page kennethoppel.ca



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Starclimber - young adult hardcover
By Kenneth Oppel - $21.99 - add to cart

It is the beginning of summer in Paris. Matt Cruse is looking forward to spending time with Kate de Vries and piloting an aerocrane for the Celestial Tower—France’s great project that will allow th...

 

Darkwing - young adult hardcover
By Kenneth Oppel - $21.99 - add to cart

Before there were bats like Shade, Marina or even Goth, there was a young chiropter—a small arboreal glider—named Dusk. . . . It is 65 million years ago, during a cataclysmic moment in the earth...

 

Sunwing - young adult softcover
By Kenneth Oppel - $8.99 - add to cart

2000 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award winner. In this sequel to Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing, Shade, a bat of the Silverwings,searches for his father and the secret o...

 

Silverwing - young adult softcover
By Kenneth Oppel - $8.99 - add to cart

2000 M.Y.R.C.A. Winner/1998 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award winner.Enter the mind of a young bat in this wonderful tale of Shade the Silverwing. Shade is the runt o...

 

Firewing - young adult softcover
By Kenneth Oppel - $8.99 - add to cart

2004 M.Y.R.C.A. WinnerAs the earth splits and heaves in a terrible quake, Griffin feels his small bat body being sucked into a fissure deep below Tree Haven. Shade, Griffin’s father, soon realizes ...

 

Airborn - young adult softcover
By Kenneth Oppel - $15.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award 2005 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award Young Adult WinnerSet in an imaginary past where giant airships rule the skies, Airborn is ...

 

Skybreaker - young adult softcover
By Kenneth Oppel - $16.99 - add to cart

The control car of the giant airship is almost entirely encasedin ice, the ship’s name barely visible on her tattered skin: Hyperion.Matt Cruse can’t believe his eyes. Can this really be the legen...

 

Dead Water Zone - young adult softcover
By Kenneth Oppel - $8.99 - add to cart

“Something wonderful is going to happen,” Sam had told Paul over the phone. But he wouldn’t explain, wouldn’t tell his brother what he had found. Now sixteen-year-old Paul is prowling the docks of ...

 

Emma's Emu - children's paperback
By Kenneth Oppel - $5.95 - add to cart

Emma is contest crazy. The only problem is, she never wins anything. Then one day a huge crate arrives on her doorstep. This must be the best prize ever, thinks Emma. Breathless with excitement...

 

The Live-Forever Machine - young adult softcover
By Kenneth Oppel - $8.99 - add to cart

The story of 14-year-old Eric, who witnesses a strange confrontation in the city museum between an aged curator and an eerily intense young man, The Live-Forever Machine immediately transports the ...

 

Peg and the Whale - children's paperback
By Kenneth Oppel - $9.95 - add to cart

Peg was born upon the bright blue sea. A big, strapping lass, she isn't one to do things in half measures. Now that Peg's pushing seven, she figures it's high time she caught herself a whale. So ...

 




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