Steampunk Books for Teens
Grades 7-9
Airman by Eoin Colfer book cover
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.
TEEN FANTASY COLFER EOIN
Cogheart by Peter Bunzl book cover
Cogheart
by Peter Bunzl

Thirteen-year-old Lily Harman always dreamed of adventure. A strong-willed girl, Lily felt trapped in a life of Victorian stuffiness at her prim boarding school. But after her father, a famous inventor, disappears on a routine zeppelin flight, Lily's life gets turned upside down.
TEEN SCI-FI BUNZL PETER
Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel book cover
Dearly, Departed
by Lia Habel

In the year 2195 when society is technologically advanced but follows the social mores of Victorian England, orphaned Nora Dearly is left at the mercy of her domineering, social-climbing aunt, until she is nearly kidnapped by zombies.
TEEN SCI-FI HABEL LIA
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve book cover
Fever Crumb
by Philip Reeve

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. 
TEEN FANTASY REEVE PHILIP
The Fog Diver by Joel N. Ross book cover
The Fog Diver
by Joel N. Ross

Working with salvagers in a fog-covered world that has forced civilization to move to the highest mountain peaks, thirteen-year-old Chess hides a deadly secret about his ability to survive while his crew leader forges an evil plan.
TEEN ADVENTURE ROSS JOEL
For Steam and Country by Jon Del Arroz book cover
For Steam and Country
by Jon Del Arroz

The heir of her father's airship, Zaira finds herself trapped in the midst of a war between her home country and the cruel Wyranth Empire, whose soldiers are acting almost inhumane.
TEEN FANTASY DEL ARROZ JON
 
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher book cover
Incarceron
by Catherine Fisher

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.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN FISHER CATHERINE
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick book cover
The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures
by Brian Selznick

Living in the walls of a busy Paris train station in 1931, clock keeper and orphan Hugo Cabret must constantly work to keep his secrets safe, but when an inquisitive girl and an old man who owns a toy store begin probing, he must do all he can to keep them at a safe distance. 
TEEN HISTORICAL SELZNICK BRIAN
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld book cover
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.
TEEN SCI-FI WESTERFELD SCOTT
Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard book cover
Something Strange and Deadly
by Susan Dennard

A debut installment in a planned trilogy introduces 16-year-old Eleanor Fitt, who enlists the help of motley Spirit-Hunters and handsome inventor Daniel when her brother goes missing at the same time Philadelphia is overcome by a Dead uprising. 
TEEN HORROR DENNARD SUSAN
This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee book cover
This Monstrous Thing
by Mackenzi Lee

When a talented mechanic in 1818 Geneva brings his brother back from the dead using clockwork parts, the citizens of Geneva think they may have inspired the recently published novel Frankenstein.
TEEN HORROR LEE MACKENZI
Grades 10-12
Cinder by Marissa Meyer book cover
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.
TEEN SCI-FI MEYER MARISSA
Clockwork Alchemist by Sara Roethle book cover
Clockwork Alchemist
by Sara Roethle

Arhyen, a thief of a mission, finds Londeron's greatest alchemist dead and must uncover the source of his robotic daughter's soul- otherwise, the city will plunge into a dark age where only the scientific will survive. 
TEEN FANTASY ROETHLE SARA
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare book cover
Clockwork Angel
by Cassandra Clare

Tessa Gray's search for her missing brother leads her into Victorian London's supernatural underworld, where she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
TEEN SUPERNATURAL CLARE CASSANDRA
Corpse & Crown by Alisa Kwitney book cover
Corpse & Crown
by Alisa Kwitney

As war between England and Germany brews on the horizion and a sinister medical conspiracy threatens to shatter Europe's uneasy peace, nursing student Aggie and charming thief Dodger must risk their survival to protext their friends and expose the truth.
TEEN SCI-FI KWITNEW ALISA
Etiquette & Espionage
by Gail Carriger

In an alternate England of 1851, spirited 14-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit and espionage.
TEEN SCI-FI CARRIGER GAIL
The Falconer by Elizabeth May book cover
The Falconer
by Elizabeth May

In 1844 Edinburgh eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron is neither an ordinary debutante, nor a murderess--she is a Falconer, a female warrior born with the gift for hunting and killing the faeries who prey on mankind and who killed her mother.
TEEN FANTASY MAY ELIZABETH
Rebel Mechanics: All is Fair in Love and Revolution by Shanna Swendson book cover
Rebel Mechanics : All is Fair in Love and Revolution
by Shanna Swendson

Landing a job as a governess to a wealthy family in an alternate-universe 19th-century New York, Verity becomes a spy for an underground society of innovators who are developing non-magical steam engines to fight against magic-wielding British controllers. 
TEEN SCI-FI SWENDON SHANNA
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