By Eoin Colfer
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor
Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a
traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal
conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by
way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all,
trust to carry him to safety.
By Scott Westerfeld
In an alternate 1914 Europe,
fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker
Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical
machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy
to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly
genetically-engineered beasts.
By Scott Westerfeld
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek
who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the
Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of
genetically engineered warships.
By Scott Westerfeld
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the
last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim
Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
By Marie Rutkoski
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her
magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes
the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest
by a Roma boy and his sister.
By Philip Reeve
In the distant future, when cities move about
and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out
of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the
perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
By Philip Reeve
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an
engineer although females in the future London, England, are not
believed capable of rational thought. But at age fourteen she leaves her
sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past
while facing danger in the present.
By Matthew Cody
Eleven-year-old orphan Tommy Learner's world
in 1900 New York City collides with that of twelve-year-old, modern-day
Jezebel Lemon in the basement of her apartment building, where together
they must use the portals between worlds to thwart the Dead Gentleman, a
legendary villain whose last unconquered world is the planet Earth.
By Richard Harland
Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being
groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite
families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when
he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how ignorant he
is of his home and its residents.
By Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis
As the four friends known as the Grey
Griffins begin school at Iron Bridge Academy, where children with
special powers like theirs are trained to fight evil beings, rumors
surface that a mad scientist known as the Clockwork King is back, and
the Griffins must defeat his robotic war machines before total
devastation is unleashed upon the world.
By Philip Reeve
In an alternate Victorian England, young
Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house
in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot
to destroy the solar system.
By Sean O'Reilly and Kevin Hanna
When a young mechanical girl finds
companionship with a mutant circus boy, the two must overcome the
obstacle of their warring families.
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