Kenneth Oppel

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1990
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

1 - This Dark Endeavor (Sep-2011)
2 - Such Wicked Intent (Aug-2012)

Matt Cruse

1 - Airborn (May-2004)
2 - Skybreaker (Dec-2005)

The Overthrow

1 - Bloom (Mar-2020)
2 - Hatch (Dec-2020)

Silverwing

1 - Firewing (Apr-2002)
2 - Silverwing (1997)
3 - Darkwing (Sep-2007)
4 - Sunwing (Mar-2008)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • The Live-Forever Machine

  • Dead Water Zone

    For as long as he can remember, Paul has looked after his younger, weaker brother Sam. But when Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he disappears into the dark folds of the city's noxious slum. When Paul goes looking for Sam...

  • Follow That Star

  • Silverwing

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    Silverwing - 2

    Shade is a young Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, millions of wingbeats to the south. During a fierce storm, he loses the others and soon faces the m...

  • Galactic Snapshots

    When Ian gets his own camera he is very excited and takes pictures of all kinds of things - including a bolt of jagged blue lightning. When he develops the photographs he discovers a strange shape on one of them - an alien spaceship that has crashed....

  • Peg and the Whale

    Peg was born upon the bright blue sea.

    A big, strapping lass, she isn't one to do things in half measures. Anything she turns her hand to, she's good at. But she wants more than that. She wants big, she wants better, she ...

  • The Devil's Cure

    Dr. Laura Donaldson has made a miraculous discovery. Death-row inmate and religious cult leader David Haines may possess the cure for cancer in his own veins. A routine blood test reveals that his immune system has the power to annihilate cancer ...

  • A Bad Case of Ghosts

    Giles Barnes and his family have just moved -- into a very strange house. Creaks, rustles, and fluttering sounds fill his bedroom. His mother says there are no such things as ghosts, but Giles decides to investigate. With help from new friends Tina a...

  • Firewing

    Silverwing - 1

    The forest heaves and splits in a terrible quake, and Griffin, a newborn Silverwing bat, is sucked down a fissure deep into the earth. Shade, Griffin's father, soon realizes that his son has been drawn into the Underworld and embarks on the most dang...



  • Airborn

    Matt Cruse - 1

    Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we we...

  • Skybreaker

    Matt Cruse - 2

    A LEGENDARY GHOST SHIP. AN INCREDIBLE TREASURE. A DEATH-DEFYING ADVENTURE. Forty years ago, the airship Hyperion vanished with untold riches in its hold. Now, accompanied by heiress, Kate de Vries and a mysterious gypsy, Matt Cruse is determined to ...

  • Reading with

    Silverwing, Sunwing and Firewing! Student will love reading this trilogy and you will love the NO PREP worksheets to teach reading fluency and literacy strategies! Story summaries, teacher suggestions, a resource list, student tracking sheet, and ans...

  • Darkwing

    Silverwing - 3

    As the sun sets on the time of the dinosaurs, a new world is left in its wake. . . .DuskHe alone can fly and see in the dark, in a colony where being different means being shunned -- or worse. As the leader's son, he is protected, but does his future...

  • Sunwing

    Silverwing - 4

    Shade, a young Silverwing bat in search of his father, discovers a mysterious Human building containing a vast forest. Could his father be there? Home to thousands of bats, the indoor forest is warm as a summer night, teeming with insect food, and fr...

  • Starclimber

    "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...

  • The King's Taster

    Max is the cook's dog. And because he is also the king's taster, Max gets to feast on

    French Fries!

    Rose Pudding!

    Cheese Pie!

    Pizza!

    No wonder Max loves his job. Who wouldn't want to dine on these delicious dishe...

  • Half Brother

    For thirteen years, Ben Tomlin was an only child. But all that changes when his mother brings home Zan -- an eight-day-old chimpanzee. Ben's father, a renowned behavioral scientist, has uprooted the family to pursue his latest research project: a h...

  • This Dark Endeavor

    The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein - 1

    Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon The Dark Library, and secret book...

  • Such Wicked Intent

    The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein - 2

    Devotion turns deadly in this second Gothic thriller from Kenneth Oppel. When does obsession become madness? Tragedy has forced sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein to swear off alchemy forever. He burns the Dark Library. He vows he will never dab...



  • The Klack Bros. Museum

    in Guys Read: Other Worlds

    A train gets waylaid in the middle of nowhere, and Luke and his dad find themselves with four hours to kill before it’s fixed. Just enough time for a trip to the mysterious, decrepit old museum on the edge of town. ...

  • The Boundless

    All aboard for an action-packed escapade from the internationally bestselling author of Airborne and the Silverwing trilogy. The Boundless, the greatest train ever built, is on its maiden voyage across the country, and first-class passenger Will E...

  • The Nest

    Steve just wants to save his baby brother -- but what will he lose in the bargain? This is a haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, from acclaimed author Kenneth Oppel (Silverwing, The Boundless) with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Jon Kla...

  • Every Hidden Thing

    The hunt for a dinosaur skeleton buried in the Badlands, bitter rivalries, and a forbidden romance come together in this beautifully written new novel that’s Romeo and Juliet meets Indiana Jones. Somewhere in the Badlands, embedded deep in centu...

  • Inkling

    A brilliantly funny story about how a little ink splot changes a family forever. Perfect for those who love Hoot, Holes, or Frindle and sure to be a hit with kids everywhere! The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan pro...

  • Bloom

    The Overthrow - 1

    "The perfect book right now for young readers searching for hope, strength, inspiration -- and just a little horticultural havoc." -- New York Times The first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that'...

  • Hatch

    The Overthrow - 2

    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 st...

  • Thrive

    The. Aliens. Are. Here. The heart-pounding conclusion to The Overthrow trilogy that began with Bloom and Hatch. The alien invasion of Earth is imminent. But maybe not all the aliens are united. A rebel faction has reached out to Anaya, saying ther...

  • Ghostlight

    One teen's summer job scaring tourists with ghost stories takes a terrifying turn when he accidentally summons the spirit of a dead girl -- and she has demands. . . . The award-winning author of Airborn delivers a roller-coaster ride of a s...

  • Silverwing: The Graphic Novel

    A small bat blown off course makes the perilous journey home with new friends in the adventurous middle grade odyssey from award-winning author Kenneth Oppel -- this bestselling story is now available in graphic novel format!Shade the young silverwin...



  • Best of All Worlds

    From award-winning author Kenneth Oppel a startling, can't-wait-to-talk-about-it-with-someone novel that defies genre to create a survival thriller unlike any you've read before. For fans of Leave the World Behind, A.S. King, M.T. Anderson, and Marga...

Award-Winning Books by Kenneth Oppel

Airborn
2004 Governor General's Literary Award -- Children's Literature
2006 Beehive Award -- Young Adult
2009 Virginia Readers Choice Award -- Middle School
Firewing
2004 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award -- Young Readers
Half Brother
2011 Young Adult Canadian Book Award -- Young Adult
Silverwing
2002 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award -- Grades 3-5
Such Wicked Intent
2013 Libris Award -- Young Readers


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kenneth Oppel has published 30 books.

The next book by Kenneth Oppel, Best of All Worlds, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Kenneth Oppel, The Live-Forever Machine, was published in July 1990.

Yes. Kenneth Oppel has 4 series.
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