Kenneth Oppel
1) 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.
2) Inkling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.
3) Starclimber
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
"Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?"
A smile soared across my face.
"As high as I possibly can."
Pilot-in-training Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries, expert on high-altitude life-forms, are invited aboard the Starclimber, a vessel that literally climbs its way into the cosmos. Before they even set foot aboard the ship, catastrophe strikes:
Kate announces she is engaged—and not to Matt.
Despite this bombshell,
...4) Half brother
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
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.
5) Darkwing
Author
Series
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.
6) Sunwing
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Shade, a young silverwing bat, is searching the countryside for his father when he discovers a huge glass building. When he flies inside, he finds a forest haven where, safe from predatory owls, hundreds of bats are finally living in the sunlight. But when he tries to find an exit, Shade quickly realizes that instead of a paradise, the building is really a prison. From there, bats are taken to laboratories, where they are fitted with bombs and used...
7) The nest
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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"--
8) Airborn
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2004
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.
9) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
The first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that's part Hatchet, part Little Shop of Horrors! 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, burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form venus-fly-trap like pods that swallow animals...
10) Silverwing
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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.
11) Hatch
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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....
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
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.
15) The Boundless
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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.
17) Thrive
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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.