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Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (2003, Hardcover)

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In London, which is now a huge 7-tiered city comprised of metal, Tom, a lowly apprentice, saves the life of Thaddeus Valentine, a renowned architect, only to find himself left for dead in a sea of mud, in an epic story of intrigue, betrayal, and Municipal Darwinism. 19,000 first printing.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060082070

ISBN-139780060082079

eBay Product ID (ePID)2433624

Product Key Features

Book TitleMortal Engines

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicFantasy & Magic, Action & Adventure / General, General, Science Fiction

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorPhilip Reeve

Book SeriesThe Hungry City Chronicles

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight19.2 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN2002-038801

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromSeventh Grade

Series Volume NumberNo. 1

Dewey Decimal823.92

Grade ToUP

SynopsisIn 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., It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea ... The great traction city london is on the move again. It has been lying low, skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, as its great mountain of metal lumbers along in hot pursuit of its quarry, the sinister plans it has harbored for years can finally start to unfold behind its soaring walls ... Thaddeus Valentine, London's Head Historian and most famous archaeologist, and his daughter, Katherine, are down in The Gut when the young assassin with the black scarf strikes. Only the quick intervention of Tom, a lowly third-class apprentice, prevents Valentine from being stabbed in the heart. Madly racing after the fleeing girl, Tom suddenly glimpses her hideous face: scarred from forehead to jaw, nose a smashed stump, a single eye glaring back at him. "Look at what your Valentine did to me!" she screams. "Ask him! Ask him what he did to Hester Shaw!" And with that she jumps down the waste chute to her death. Minutes later Tom finds himself tumbling down the same chute and stranded in the Out-Country, a sea of mud scored by the huge caterpillar tracks of cities like the one now steaming off over the horizon. In a stunning literary debut, Philip Reeve has created an unforgettable adventure story set in a dark and utterly original world fueled by Municipal Darwinism -- and betrayal.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.R25576Hu 2003