Mortal engines : a novel

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Label

Mortal engines : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

by Philip Reeve

Creator

• trueReeve, Philip

Subject

• trueFar future
• trueFifteen-year-old boys
• trueHistorians
• London (England) -- Juvenile fiction
• trueLondon, England
• trueMuseums
• trueNuclear weapons
• truePost-apocalypse
• Science fiction
• Steampunk fiction
• trueSurvival (after nuclear warfare)
• trueTeenage apprentices
• trueTeenagers
• trueTeenage boy orphans
• trueViolence
• trueYoung adult fiction
• trueCities and towns

Genre

• Science fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Steampunk fiction
• Young adult fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• trueHungry city chronicles.
• trueHungry city chronicles

Storyline

• trueWorld-building
• trueAction-packed
• trueIntricately plotted

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueBleak

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueDescriptive

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2004
• Nestle Children's Book Prize for Nine to Eleven Year Olds, 2002.
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2003.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2004

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

990L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

MG+

Literary form

novels

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 10

Reading level

6.6

Series statement

The Hungry city chronicles

Series volume

0001

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Target audience

juvenile