Airborn (2011)

Airborn is a 2004 young adult novel by Kenneth Oppel. The book has been honored by several awards including winning Canada's Governor General's Award. Airborn is set in a time where the primary form of air transportation are airships. The technological advancements in the story appear to depict a world similar to that of the 1930s or 1940s, but the airplane has not been invented and the Earth contains fictional flying creatures that inhabit the sky, which suggests that the book takes place in an imaginary time period or an alternate reality. The book takes place aboard a transoceanic airship, the Aurora, and is told through the perspective of its cabin boy, Matt Cruse. The third book in the series, Starclimber alludes to the series taking place somewhere before or after World War I as there are references to arch duke Franz Ferdinand as well as women's suffrage.