Kenneth Oppel
1) Airborn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
2) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
3) Darkwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.
4) Sunwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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.
5) Starclimber
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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.
6) Silverwing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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.
7) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. They bloom--everywhere, unstoppable.Or are they? Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. Anaya,...
8) Firewing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Griffin, a young bat, is sucked into the "Underworld," and his father follows to rescue him.
9) Half Brother
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project--an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills--he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
11) The nest
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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.
13) Thrive
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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.
14) Hatch
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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....
15) Star Climber
Author
Pub. Date
2009
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 castastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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.
19) The Boundless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
20) Inkling
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
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...