• Airman

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    Airman
    Eoin Colfer
    Hyperion Book CH, 2008
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 1423107519
    416 pages

    Synopsis

    Conor Broekhart was born in flight, on the maiden voyage of a hot air balloon, advanced technology for his time period, and thus was destined to be great in so many ways. The son of a genius scientist mother, and sharp-shooting military captain who live on the Saltee Islands, Conor quickly becomes indoctrinated into the upper echelon and royalty of the palace. The new monarch, good King Nick, as he’s commonly called, is an American aeronaut who suddenly becomes king as he’s the only undisputed relative in the line of the Saltee royalty. King Nicholas’s daughter, Isabella, is around Conor’s age, and the two grow up together.

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