Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

In which book…..

Does a boy swing across the sky on the Aurora’s davit in order to retrieve the Endurance’s gondola before it goes down?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Matt

Does Matt rescue the pilot of a stranded air balloon? What is the pilot’s name?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Benjamin Molloy

Does the captain of the Aurora call Matt by a name that he likes? What does the captain call Matt?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Mr. Cruse

Does Mr. Molloy ask Matt a question while he is in the Aurora’s infirmary? What does he ask Matt?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Mr. Molloy asks Matt if he saw ‘them’

Does Matt show Kate and Miss Simpkins to their stateroom? Miss Simpkin’s high-heeled shoes keep getting caught in something. What?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, in the metal floor grille of the catwalk

Does Captain Walken plan to appoint Matt as the new junior sailmaker aboard the Aurora? Why did Bruce Lunardi get the position instead?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Bruce Lunardi (Otto Lunardi’s son)

Are passengers able to take a tour of the Aurora? Where were they supposed to meet?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, at the grand piano in the starboard lounge

Does Benjamin Molloy see a group of cloud cats? Before he sees them properly, what does he think they are?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, a flock of albatross

Does Kate write a letter to the Zoological Society explaining what her grandfather saw? Whose name was on the reply?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Sir Hugh Snuffler

Does Matt fail to notice Szpirglas’s pirate ship approaching? Why didn’t he see it?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, he was chasing an albatross off the Aurora OR the ship was small and painted black with no lights

Does the Aurora sink? What causes it to sink?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, The propellers of Szpirglas’s ship cut through the hull and the gas cells

Does the Aurora land on an island? Matt and Kate find the bones of a cloud cat inside a tree.

How much of the skeleton is actually there?

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Do Matt and Kate escape a sudden typhoon by seeking shelter in a cave? What is inside the cave?

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Do Matt and Kate come across a group of Szpirglas’s pirates while fleeing from a cloud cat?

In pretending to be from the Sky Guard, what false name does Szpirglas give?

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Does Benjamin Molloy from the Endurance see something unusual in the sky? What does he see?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, cloudcats

Does Kate drug Miss Simpkins to go off exploring alone? Who does Captain Walken send, along with Matt, to go look for her?

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Does Chef Vlad put a sleeping elixir into a particular dish? Into what did he put the elixir?

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Is Szpirglas knocked off the wing of the Aurora and is killed? Who or what knocks him off?

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Does Matt have a week’s shore leave at home? What are the names of his sisters?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Sylvia and Isabel (Emilie page 89???)

Does the Aurora prepare for a flight? What type of gas does it use?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, hydrium

Does the Aurora use a special gas for flying? What does the gas smell like?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, mangoes

Do two passengers make a late arrival on the Aurora? Who were they?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Marjorie Simpkins and Kate de Vries

Do two passengers make a late arrival on the Aurora? In what type of craft did they arrive?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, an ornithopter

Do Kate and Marjorie stay in a stateroom on the Aurora? What was the name given to their room?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, the Topkapi

Is there a cinema on board the Aurora? What movie is playing when Matt gives the guided tour to Kate?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Gilgamesh

Is the Aurora powered by hydrium in gas cells? What is the name of the material used to make the gas cells?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, goldbeater’s skin

Does Matt keep a few special possessions in the shelf of his bunk bed? What does he keep there?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, books that his father had had

Does Miss Simpkins complain about her tea at dinner? What does say it tastes like?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, like a fish bathed in it

Does Matt deliver two hot chocolates to Kate’s stateroom? What does she give Matt as he leaves?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, her grandfather’s log book

Does the Aurora almost land on the water and the passengers prepare to board life rafts? Matt is concerned about being in the water himself. Why doesn’t he like the water?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, He can’t swim.

Does Matt decide to follow Kate as she explores the island? What chases them up into a tree?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, a (jumping) red snake

Do Matt and Kate find themselves up a tree? What do they find in the tree?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, a skeleton of an unusual creature/cloud cat

Does a sudden storm come up, forcing Matt and Kate to seek shelter in a cave? At first Matt thinks there are snakes in the cave, but later realizes the hissing sound was something else. What was in the cave?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, hydrium

Does the crew of the Aurora unload the cargo from its hold? What was in several of the crates that the crew used to fill the Aurora’s gas cells?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, rubber hosing

Does Kate de Vries give a sleeping elixir to Miss Simpkins so that she can escape the ship? Who does the Captain send to look for her?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Matt and Bruce Lunardi

Does a cloud cat stop chasing Matt and Kate? Why does it stop?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, they ran into an open area OR a Szpirglas’s airship landed nearby

Does Szpirglas pretend to be a member of the Sky Guard and show Matt and Kate a great deal of kindness? What is wrong with the mango juice that Matt and Kate are given?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, it has alcohol in it

Does Szpirglas’s airship land on an island very near to Matt and Kate? In order to protect the Aurora, who do Matt and Kate pretend to be?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, shipwrecked cabin boy and passenger from a small airship

Does Szpirglas shove Matt and Kate into a hydrium pit? What do they use to escape from the pit?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Kate’s harem pants

Do pirates take over the Aurora? How do Bruce, Kate and Matt get on board without being seen?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, through a hatch at the tail fin

Does Szpirglas get knocked off the Aurora and fall to his death? Who or what knocks him off?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, cloud cat

Does Matt manage to go to the Sky Academy? How did he pay for his studies?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, reward money for the pirates

Does Matt meet Kate months after their adventure on the island? Where does Matt suggest that Kate go to university?

AIRBORN, KENNETH OPPEL, Paris