Kenneth Oppel is the Printz-Honor winning author of Airborn, Silverwing, This Dark Endeavor, and numerous other books for children and young adults. His novel Half Brother was the first book to win both the Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children, as well as its Book of the Year for Young Adults. Oppel’s Silverwing trilogy, told entirely from the point of view of bats, has sold over a million copies worldwide. His latest book is Such Wicked Intent, Book II in the Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein. Kenneth Oppel lives in Toronto with his wife and three children.

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