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| Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Reeve |
| ISBN: | 0060082070 9780060082079 0060082089 9780060082086 |
| OCLC Number: | 51172384 |
| Awards: | NestleÌ Smarties book prize Gold Award.; Whitbread Children's book award shortlist. |
| Description: | 310 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | by Philip Reeve. |
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Abstract:
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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