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Mortal engines / a novel by Philip Reeve.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0060082070
ISBN: 9780060082079
ISBN: 0060082089
ISBN: 9780060082086
ISBN: 9780545222112
ISBN: 0545222117
ISBN: 0060082097
ISBN: 9780060082093
ISBN: 9781338201123
ISBN: 1338201123
ISBN: 9781338303711
ISBN: 1338303716
Physical Description: 310 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2003.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1: The hunting ground -- Valentine -- The waste chute -- The out-country -- The Lord Mayor -- Speedwell -- High London -- The trading center -- The Jenny Haniver -- The 13th Floor Elevator -- Airhaven -- The gasbag and gondola -- The resurrected man -- The guildhall -- The Rustwater Marshes -- The turd tanks -- The pirate suburb -- Bevis -- The Sea of Khazak -- The Black Island -- In the engineerium -- Grike -- MEDUSA -- Part 2: An agent of the league -- The historians -- Batmunkh Gompa -- Dr. Arkengarth remembers -- A stranger in the mountains of heaven -- Going home -- A hero's welcome -- The eavesdropper -- Chudleigh Pomeroy sees it through -- Wine and nibbles and the dawn of a new era -- Idea for a fireworks display -- The cathedral -- The shadow of bones -- The bird roads.
Target Audience Note:	990L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader MG+ 6.6 13 13 74320
Awards Note:	Nestlé Smarties book prize Gold Award. Whitbread Children's book award shortlist.