Mortal Engines (2001) - Philip Reeve

Mortal Engines (2001) – Philip Reeve

(Hungry City Chronicles #1)

Scholastic, 293 pages, ISBN 9781407110912

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AWARDS:

Nestle Children’s Book Prize, 2002

Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, 2002

Annotation: Philip Reeve has created an unforgettable world in which cities travel the skies and literally eat each other for world dominance. 

Booktalk: Imagine your hometown. Now imagine it loosed from the Earth, flying through the skies, looking for other towns to eat. This is the world of Mortal Engines, a world of Municipal Darwinism where only the strong survive. 

Tom, an apprentice on the traction city of London, prevents the assassination of London’s most important citizen Thaddeus Valentine. Tom’s reward for saving Valentine? To find himself banished to die in the sea of mud called the Out Country. Something strange is going on and Tom finds that the only person he can trust is the hideously scarred girl who tried to kill Valentine. And she looks like she might just kill Tom....