What Is The Aurora In Airborn?

The Aurora is

a fictional aircraft

in the novel Airborn. The Aurora at the Lionsgate City docks.

What happens at the end of airborn?

Bruce is killed by the pirates in the course of the action (bummer), but Matt and Kate manage to get the ship airborn, kill/injure/capture the rest of the pirate crew, and

Szpirglas meets his fate after a tussle with Matt on the top of the airship's back

.

Who are the characters in airborn?

The main characters are

Matt Cruse, cabin boy aboard airship Aurora

, and the wealthy and wilful Kate de Vries, who is on a quest to prove that the mysterious flying creatures seen by her grandfather are real.

What is the setting in airborn?

More specifically though, our story takes place either on

the airship Aurora

—which Matt has an unhealthy attachment to—or on an uncharted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (which in our story is called the Pacificus).

Who is Vikram Szpirglas?

Vikram Spzirglas is known as

a pirate

, or a father to other characters in the book. He is father of Nadira, a Roma and Theodore Szpirglas.

Is Airborn by Kenneth Oppel a movie?

Film adaptation

The book originally was being adapted into

a

film, to be directed by Stephen Sommers. … Announced on March 19, 2012, Halifax Films and Michael Donovan teamed up and optioned the book for film. Oppel was hired to write the preliminary script and would have been an executive producer.

Who narrates the story of airborne?

Captain Daniel Garland

, doctor to the 11th Battalion, narrates the story in 1st person. He is currently in a POW camp attending to a patient Theo Trickey. Garland's narration then goes back in time to tell how they came to be in the camp.

What is the Sisyphus triangle in airborn?

Grantham if they ever went over the area where the island is supposed to be; apparently they actively try to avoid that area, known as the Sisyphus Triangle, because

the winds are unpredictable

and there are rumors of garbled distress calls, screwy instruments, and malfunctioning compasses.

How many books are in the Airborn series?

Kenneth Oppel Airborn Series:

Three-Book

Bundle: Airborn, Skybreaker, and Starclimber Kindle Edition.

What does Matt discover about the creatures from looking at Benjamin Malloy's drawings?

In a drawing, Matt observes that

the creatures are like half-bird, half-panther

. On another page Benjamin Malloy has drawn in detail the skeletons of a human, a bat, and this creature for comparison. Kate's grandfather spends several days hovering over the island and observing the creatures.

Where does Kenneth Oppel write?

Since then we've lived in Newfoundland, Dublin — and

Toronto

, where we now live with our three children. My books include the Silverwing trilogy, which has sold over a million copies around the world, and Airborn, winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for children's literature, and the Michael L.

Why did Kenneth Oppel write Silverwing?

Why did you write a book about bats? Once I started reading about bats,

I realized what fascinating animals they were

, and I was particularly interested in the idea of a migration — a long difficult journey to escape the winter.

Does Airborne have zinc?

Yet,

one serving of Airborne only provides 8 mg of zinc

.

How many pages does Airborne have?

How many pages does the boundless have?