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Steampunk
Introduction
Part science fiction, part fantasy, part alternative history, and all compelling in their weirdness.  Authors include : Scott Westerfeld, Cassandra Clare, Kenneth Oppel, Catherine Fisher and more.
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2009
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ISBN-10: 1416971734
It's 1914 and Europe is on the precipice of war--the German Clankers and British Darwinists are armed with futuristic weaponry and biotechnology; in the midst of the chaos, Alek, a royal and potential threat to the throne, and Deryn, a common Darwinist, meet on the run and forge an uneasy alliance that will dramatically change the course of the Great War and their lives.
 
Sequels:
Cinder - Marissa Meyer
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/03/2012
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ISBN-10: 0312641893
When Cinder, a gifted cyborg with a mysterious past, becomes entangled with the handsome Prince Kai, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle to save humankind from a deadly plague and ruthless lunar beings.
 
Sequel:
Clockwork angel - Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/31/2010
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ISBN-10: 1416975861
In the prequel to the best-selling The Mortal Instruments series, Tessa Gray descends into Victorian London's dark underworld to search for her missing brother, with the mysterious Shadowhunters as her only allies.
 
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Boneshaker - Cherie Priest
Publisher: Tor
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/10/2009
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ISBN-10: 0765318415
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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Airborn - Kenneth Oppel
Publisher: EOS
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2004
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ISBN-10: 0060531800
Set in the early twentieth century in a world where the airplane hasn't been invented, a young boy takes to the skies aboard an airship where he plays an important role in fierce battles that are fought high in the sky.
 
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Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2010
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ISBN-10: 0545207193
Raised by a member of the Order of Engineers, apprentice Fever is dispatched to assist archaeologist Kit Solvent with a top-secret project that causes Fever to recall bizarre memories that raise questions about her origins. By the author of the award-winning Here Lies Arthur.
 
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The hunchback assignments - Arthur G. Slade
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/22/2009
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ISBN-10: 038573784X
Provides middle readers with a fantastic adventure set in the heart of London and in the depths of the city's dark tunnels, featuring two teen agents for the Permanent Association and their efforts to unravel the mysterious and murderous plot by the Clockwork Guild. 
 
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Worldshaker - Richard Harland
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/18/2010
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ISBN-10: 1416995528
Groomed to be his Supreme Commander grandfather's successor, Col Porpentine believes that the underprivileged classes of his society are little more than animals before meeting Riff, who has fled her Below Deck life. By the award-winning author of the Wolf Kingdom quartet.
 
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Incarceron - Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Dial Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/26/2010
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ISBN-10: 0803733968
Believing he comes from the world outside his vast prison where inmates survive in dilapidated cities and metal forests, 17-year-old Finn dreams of escaping when he finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl who believes she can help him escape.
 
Sequel:
Steampunk! : an anthology of fantastically rich and strange stories - Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/11/2011
Share Steampunk! %3a  an anthology of fantastically rich and strange stories ISBN-13: 9780763648435
ISBN-10: 0763648434
In the first major YA steampunk anthology, 14 top storytellers push the genre's mix of sci-fi, fantasy, history and adventure in fascinating new directions. Authors include M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Garth Nix and many others.
The girl in the steel corset - Kady Cross
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/24/2011
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ISBN-10: 0373210337
In the first of a three-book series in the popular Steampunk genre, Finley Jayne is convinced that she's not normal, and when she encounters Griffin King, who is investigating a criminal called The Machinist, the mastermind behind several recent crimes committed by automatons and a new plot to overthrow Queen Victoria, Finley thinks she's finally found her chance to be part of something and to fit in. 
 
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The dark unwinding - Sharon Cameron
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2012
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ISBN-10: 0545327865
Traveling to her eccentric uncle's remote English estate to commit him to an asylum where he will not be able to squander their family's fortune, Katharine Tulman discovers that her uncle is actually a genius inventor who employs hundreds of people he has rescued from London workhouses. An award-winning first novel.
Ship breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2010
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ISBN-10: 0316056219
A tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor.   
 
Magic under glass - Jaclyn Dolamore
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/22/2009
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ISBN-10: 1599904306
Living a hardscrabble life as a music-hall dancer, Nimira accepts employment from Hollin Parry, a wealthy sorcerer, on whose estate she confronts perplexing rumors before discovering the trapped spirit of a dashing fairy gentleman whose fate is tied to that of the entire magical world. A first novel.
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