Philip Reeve
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Mortal Engines is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!* "Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." — School Library Journal, starred review"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester Shaw is a heroine for the ages. The moment we finished reading [Mortal Engines] we knew we wanted to make it into a movie." — Producer Peter JacksonLondon...
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Larklight volume 2
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English
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Young Arthur Mumby, his sister Myrtle, and their mother accept an invitation to take a holiday at an up-and-coming resort in the asteroid belt, where they become involved in a dastardly plot involving spies, time travel, and mind-altering clothing.
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Larklight volume 3
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English
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When the festive season arrives at Larklight, so does some unsettling news. A sinister-looking cloud is fast approaching the outskirts of the Known Universe. The closest planet, Georgium Sidus, has but two human inhabitants: the missionary Rev Cruet and his daughter Charity: most recent communication: 'Great danger - imperative that-'.
And so, aboard a Naval Gunship, Art, Myrtle and family, bravely go where only one man and his daughter have...
And so, aboard a Naval Gunship, Art, Myrtle and family, bravely go where only one man and his daughter have...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is entirely the wrong sort of preparation, as they...
8) Fever Crumb
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English
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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.
9) Mothstorm
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2011
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English
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When the festive season arrives at Larklight, so does some unsettling news. A sinister-looking cloud is fast approaching the outskirts of the Known Universe. The closest planet, Georgium Sidus, has but two human inhabitants: the missionary Revd Cruet and his daughter Charity. Their most recent communication read: 'Great danger . . . imperative that -'
And so, aboard a naval gunship, Art, Myrtle and family bravely go where only one man
...10) Mortal engines
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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.
11) A web of air
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English
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In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.
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When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London, the city on wheels, is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain--and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.
13) Night flights
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"In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorized cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang-- pilot, adventurer, spy-- isn't afraid. These three stories show gripping, moving, exciting moments in Anna Fang's life: her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, a showdown against a robotic Stalker that is terrifyingly out of control, and her free life as an intelligence agent for...
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Not-so-impossible tales volume 3
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English
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New friends Sika and Shen try to beat the odds and win the Great Northern Race, in a sled pulled by a team of sixty-six pugs, in hopes of meeting the Snowfather and having him grant their wish.
15) Cakes in space
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Not-so-impossible tales volume 2
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[2015]
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209 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
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English
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"When ten-year-old Astra and her family move to a new planet, she must save the spaceship and its crew from man-eating cakes, aliens, and more"--
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Not-so-impossible tales volume 1
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2014.
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189 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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"When Oliver's explorer parents go missing, he sets sail on the rescue mission with some new, unexpected friends"--
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Not-so-impossible tales volume 4
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[2017]
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208 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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"Emily must save her outer space amusement park home from being shut down by the funfair inspector"--
18) Here lies Arthur
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2008.
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339 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur.
19) Station Zero
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Railhead volume 3
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2018.
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302 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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After receiving a mysterious coded message, Zen Starling abandons his life of luxury and, with the help of sentient trains, goes in search of android Nova, who plans to reawaken the Railmaker.
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Railhead volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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336 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Zen Starling, a small-time thief, and Nova, an android girl come from the Network Empire, whose stations are scattered across the galaxy and linked by the K-gates and the sentient trains travel at light speed between them--but the gate through which they just passed was a new one, and they have no way of knowing into what danger it might have led them.