KENNETH OPPEL is the author of numerous books for young readers. His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide and was adapted into an animated TV series and stage play. Airborn won a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award and the Governor General s Literary Award; its sequel, Skybreaker, was a New York Times bestseller and was named Children s Novel of the Year by The Times (London). He is also the author of Half Brother, This Dark Endeavor, Such Wicked Intent, The Boundless, which won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Book Award, was an E.B. White Read Aloud honor book and was a finalist for the Monica Hughes Award, and The Nest, which was both a School Library Journal and a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. Born on Vancouver Island, he has lived in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and in England and Ireland, and now resides in Toronto with his wife and children.

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