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Mortal engines : a novel

Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2003.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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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.
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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: Nestlé 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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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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