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Author
Series
Bone season volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing. But when Paige is captured and...
2) Imprudence
Author
Series
Custard protocol volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rue and the crew of The Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue's best friend, Primrose, keeps getting engaged to the most unacceptable military types. Rue has family problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is crazy, and...
3) Prudence
Author
Series
Custard protocol volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
ON BEHALF OF QUEEN, COUNTRY...AND THE PERFECT POT OF TEA. When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) is given an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female would under similar circumstances -- names it the Spotted Custard and floats to India in pursuit of the perfect cup of tea. But India has more than just tea on offer. Rue stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife, and some awfully...
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retelling of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. When Lucy, a botanist famous for her research on ways to counter vampires, arrives at Blackwell Manor to tend to her sick cousin, she finds that mysteries abound. A restless ghost roams the hallways, and Lord Miles is clearly hiding a secret. Working together, Miles and Lucy attempt to restore peace to Blackwell Manor.
8) Competence
Author
Series
Custard protocol volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Accidentally abandoned! All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, the Spotted Custard, in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fish tail. When she uncovers rumors of a new kind of vampire, Prim and the Custard crew embark on a mission to Peru. There, they encounter airship pirates and strange atmospheric phenomena, and are mistaken for representatives of the Spanish Inquisition. Forced...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In an alternate nineteenth-century America that is still a colony of Britain's industrial empire, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees' struggle to survive is interrupted by a newcomer with no memory, bearing secrets about a terrible future.
10) A darkling plain
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.The final book in the Mortal Engines series, Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is the winner of the Guardian Children's...
11) Predator's gold
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, Tom and Hester hope that the ice city of Anchorage will reach the rumored haven of the Dead Continent--America--before the savage Huntsmen of Arkangel find them.
12) Infernal devices
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads her parents, Tom and Hester, back into battle with old enemies and new.
Author
Series
(Jeffrey Scott),Mysteries of Cove volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Trenton Colman is exceptionally creative with a knack for all things mechanical. But his talents are viewed with suspicion in Cove, a steam-powered city built inside a mountain. In Cove, creativity is a crime and 'invention' is a curse word. Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, who died in an explosion--an event the leaders of Cove point to as an example of the danger of creativity. Working together,...