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Steampunk Books for Teens & Tweens
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Steampunk!
by Kelly Link
A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.
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Extraordinary engines
by Nick Gevers
Bringing together original works from leading science fiction and fantasy authors, a collection of short stories that blend Victoriana with modern technology features contributions by Stephen Baxter, Michael Moorcock, Brian Stableford, Hal Duncan, Jay Lake, Paul Di Filippo, Ian R. MacLeod, and other notable authors. Original.
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The dark unwinding
by 1970- Cameron, Sharon
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
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Etiquette & espionage
by Gail Carriger
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
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Clockwork angel
by Cassandra Clare
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
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Airman
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.
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Foundling
by 1972- Cornish, D. M. (David M.)
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamund sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps.
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The girl in the steel corset
by 1971- Cross, Kady
When Griffin King, the orphaned Duke of Greythorne, encounters sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne, he can tell that she's no ordinary girl. Sensing the magical darkness inside her, he invites her to join his band of misfits, each with strange abilities much like her own, and together they must work to stop The Machinist, a criminal mastermind who is behind a number of recent crimes by automatons.
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The city of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
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Incarceron
by 1957- Fisher, Catherine
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
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The Greyfriar
by Clay Griffith
In 1870, vampires took over the northern regions of the world, forcing the surviving humans to flee to the southern hemisphere. Now the year is 2020 and Princess Adele, a human, is on the verge of coming to power just as a final war with the vampires is approaching.
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Dearly, departed
by Lia Habel
In the year 2195 when society is technologically advanced but follows the social mores of Victorian England, recently orphaned Nora Dearly is left at the mercy of her domineering, social-climbing aunt, until she is nearly kidnapped by zombies and falls in with a group of mysterious, black-clad commandos.
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Worldshaker
by 1947- Harland, Richard
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 heis of his home and its residents.
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The court of the air
by 1967- Hunt, Stephen
Targeted for their possession of a magical secret that has forced them into lives of hardship, street-wise Molly and sheltered Oliver find themselves on the run in the company of outlaws and spies who assist their efforts to counter ancient enemies of the state.
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The Iron Thorn
by Caitlin Kittredge
In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn.
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Stormdancer
by Jay Kristoff
Sent by a murderous Shima Isles Shogun to capture a believed-extinct griffin, Yukiko embarks on her mission and is soon stranded in the wilderness with an injured griffin, with whom she makes a stand against corrupt authorities.
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Cinder
by Marissa Meyer
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
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Airborn
by 1967- Oppel, Kenneth
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
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Boneshaker
by Cherie Priest
Commissioned to build a machine that will promote gold-rush land-breaking efforts between Civil War-era Seattle and Alaska, inventor Leviticus Blue inadvertently triggers the release of a deadly gas that transforms people into the living dead, a situation that prompts his teenage son to restore the family reputation years later.
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Fever Crumb
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.
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Mortal engines
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.
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The Marbury lens
by 1959- Smith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo)
After being kidnapped and barely escaping, sixteen-year-old Jack goes to London with his best friend Connor, where someone gives him a pair of glasses that send him to an alternate universe where war is raging, he is responsible for the survival of two younger boys, and Connor is trying to kill them all.
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Leviathan
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.
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The thirteenth child
by 1953- Wrede, Patricia C.
Eighteen-year-old Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special training in Aphrikan magic, and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son, give her extraordinary power to combat magical creatures that threaten settlements on the western frontier.
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Fullmetal alchemist
by 1973- Arakawa, Hiromu
Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and a leg...and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is an agent of the government, a slave of the military-alchemical complex, using his unique powers to obey orders...even to kill. Except his powers aren't unique. The world has been ravaged by the abuse of alchemy. And in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure, the Philosopher's Stone, their enemies are even more ruthless than they are? -- Publisher description.
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The five fists of science
by Matt Fraction
True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain's connections and Tesla's inventions, they went into business selling world peace. So, what happened? Only now can the tale be told - in which Twain and Tesla collided with Edison and Morgan, an evil science cabal merging the Black Arts and the Industrial Age. Turn of the century New York City sets the stage for a titanic battle over the very fate of mankind.
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Girl Genius
by Phil Foglio
After Agatha Clay's locket is stolen, which is the only link to her parents, it sparks a series of events that lead to revenge, kidnappings, and death.
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Return of the dapper men
by 1974- McCann, Jim
When the Dapper men arrive in Anorev to restart time, Ayden, Zoe, and Dapper Man 41 seek to repair whatever made time stop.
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Rocketeer adventures
by Scott Dunbier
"The Rocketeer follows the high-flying adventures of stunt pilot Cliff Secord after he finds a mysterious jetpack and takes to the sky. Hunted by government agents on one side and Nazi spies on the other, Secord finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse... one that can only be survived by quick wits and seat-of-your-pants derring-do!"--P. [4] of cover.
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The Rocketeer
by Dave Stevens
Gathers stories of Cliff Secord, a 1930s stunt pilot who finds a stolen rocket-pack that enables him to fly--and gets him into trouble with government agents, Nazi spies, and other mysterious types, not to mention his girlfriend, Betty.
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