102. Airman, by Eoin Colfer.

Airman is about Conor Broekheart, a young nobleman born in an aeronautical balloon and raised as a scientist as the world races to invent a proven method of flight. He is privileged with a progressive king and willing mentor, loving family, and ideal prospects to woo and win the princess of the islands, until treacherous underlings deprive him of mentors, family, and freedom in a few vicious strokes. Shattered, he clings to his dreams of flight to survive his time in the diamond mine prison of Little Saltee Island.

Airman is a good read by a favoured author. I've read several of the Artemis Fowl books, and a few of Eoin Colfer's other books, and I'm fairly sure I moderately enjoyed all of them. Eoin Colfer has a very straightforward manner of explaining things, and his plots are all unusual enough that they captivate the interest - helped along by his amusing portrayals of even the grimmest characters. Definitely worth a read, as a young adult or an old one.