The book I recently finished reading is called Airborn. Its about a poor teenage boy, Matt whos father was a worker on an air ship and his job was to walk around on the outside and repair the shell of the ship but one day he was killed when he fell off the ship when his rope snapped. Ever since the day that his father died, Matt wanted to work like his dad and started working on the same ship that his dad worked on. This ship was hired to carry people from one point to another and Matt has a very low ranking job. When he was working one day he met a rich girl his same age who was very intelligent that he liked and she wanted to know more about flying and the sky and had Matt tell her about it and they eventually became good friends.

         On one day on their voyage the ship was attacked by a group of pirates, and it was damaged badly. as they started to go down they saw an island on the horizon and steered toward it. by the time they got to the island and landed to repair it they didnt have enough hydrium (the gas that they use to make the ships able to float) to be able to lift off again so they dug in on the island and had to wait for help. As Matt started to look around the island they discovered strange animals (the creatures looked like bats but they flew very high into the air) that no one has ever seen before and Kate, who was interested in them, wanted to follow one that couldnt fly. as they followed it they stumbled upon the town that the pirates built as a place that they could stay without the danger of being found. the pirates chased after them but they out ran them and hid in a cave. In the cave Matt found a hole in the back that was leaking hydrium and told the crew. they took pipes and ran them from the ship to the cave and started to fill the ship. they threw everything over the side to lighten the ship and eventually started to lift off.