Belly’s dawning awareness of her sexuality and that of the boys is a strong theme, as is the sense of summer as a separate and reflective time and place: Readers get glimpses of kisses on the beach, her best friend’s flirtations during one summer’s visit, a first date.
Han’s leisurely paced, somewhat somber narrative revisits several beach-house summers in flashback through the eyes of now 15-year-old Isabel, known to all as Belly.īelly measures her growing self by these summers and by her lifelong relationship with the older boys, her brother and her mother’s best friend’s two sons. Full of a sense of air, flying details, and action. Matt’s intricate knowledge of his ship and Kate’s cheerfully stubborn determination bring them, scrabbling hard, to victory over the brutal pirates and discovery of the wondrous cloud cats. A pirate attack forces an emergency landing on an uncharted island in the Pacificus ocean. Kate, a rich passenger Matt’s age, boards the Aurora in search of furry, flying sky mammals mentioned in her late grandfather’s journal but unknown to anyone else. Matt loves the skies aground, he feels stifled and claustrophobically disconnected from his late father, who was also an Aurora worker.
Fifteen-year-old Matt works as cabin boy on the Aurora, a two-million-pound airship kept aloft by gas cells filled with hydrium, the lightest gas in the world. Entrancing, exciting adventure with airships, pirates, and mysterious flying mammals takes place on an earth with the same geography as ours but different technology.
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