Mortal Engines

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2004
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London is on the rampage again, pursuing a small mining town across the dried-up bed of the North Sea. It's a quasi-Victorian futuristic world where cities prey on each other, recycle their parts and capture their inhabitants. Tom embarks on a journey to return to the city that has abandoned him, accompanied by the cold and damaged Hester. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year.

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London is on the rampage again, pursuing a small mining town across the dried-up bed of the North Sea. It's a quasi-Victorian futuristic world where cities prey on each other, recycle their parts and capture their inhabitants. Tom embarks on a journey to return to the city that has abandoned him, accompanied by the cold and damaged Hester. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Edition: 1
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 05 Feb 2004
ISBN 10: 0435130536
ISBN 13: 9780435130534
Book Overview: Literature for life

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Exciting and visually descriptive. -- School Library Journal (starred review)
Reeve will soon be the go-to man for imagination, excitement, and crowd-pleasing action. -- Horn Book magazine
Wildly imaginative, full of marvelous details, humor, and grand adventures. -- KLIATT
Readers who enjoy violent, titanic clashes between good and evil will be absorbed from beginning to end. -- Kirkus Reviews

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