Steampunk for Teens
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Steampunk! An Anthology Pewaukee Public Library of Fantascally Rich and Strange Stories DIY STEAMPUNK A collecon of fourteen sto‐ Steampunk‐Style Jewelry ries by well‐known authors by Jean Campbell set in the age of steam en‐ 745.582 gines and featuring automa‐ Campbell, J tons, clockworks, and other Steampunk marvels. Authors include Lib‐ STEAMPUNK ba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black, and M.T. This how‐to book focuses Anderson. on simple stringing, wirework, hammering, stamping, gluing, The Unnaturalists stching, and off‐loom beadwork—so that by Tiffany Trent even a beginner can create pieces in the style. FOR TEENS Cataloging the Unnatural creatures in her father's Steampunkery: Polymer Clay museum, Vespa Nix, a girl from and Mixed Media Projects by an alternate‐universe London, is Chris Friesen pressured to become a lady and YA marry before finding her fate 731.42 ed to that of Syrus Reed, whose Friesen, C family has been forced into slavery Steampunkery Steampunk look combines a Leviathan Victorian‐era sense of romance with clockwork by Sco Westerfeld mechanics. This book adapts those In an alternate 1914 Europe, Steampunk: fieen‐year‐old Austrian Prince characteriscs to polymer clay creaons and Alek, on the run from the Clank‐ offers projects that are sophiscated yet A genre set in an era or er Powers who are playful, challenging without being difficult. aempng to take over the world where steam power globe using mechanical is sll widely used but with machinery, forms an uneasy prominent elements of alliance with Deryn who, Pewaukee Public Library disguised as a boy to join the Brish Air Service, is either science ficon or learning to fly genecally‐engineered beasts. 210 Main Street fantasy, such as ficonal Pewaukee, I 53072 (262) 691‐5670 SG 8/13 technological invenons www.pewaukeelibrary.org www.facebook.com/pewaukeelibrary Join the Teens @ Pewaukee Public Library group on Goodreads.com The Legacy of the Clockwork Clockwork Angel Airborn by Kenneth Oppel Key by Krisn Bailey by Cassandra Clare Ma, a young cabin boy A orphaned sixteen‐year‐old When sixteen‐year‐old orphan Tessa aboard an airship, and Kate, a servant in Victorian England Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, wealthy young girl traveling finds love while unraveling the her search for him leads her into with her chaperone, team up secrets of a mysterious society Victorian‐era London's dangerous to search for the existence of of inventors and their most supernatural Underworld. mysterious winged creatures dangerous creaon. reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. Airman by Eoin Colfer Pastworld by Ian Beck Falsely accused of murdering the king In 2050, while vising Pastworld, Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve and sent to an island prison, royal a Victorian London theme park, Foundling Fever Crumb has bodyguard Conor starts building a flying teenaged Caleb meets seven‐ been raised as an engineer machine so that he can fly to the teen‐year‐old Eve, a Pastworld although females in the future mainland, clear his good name, and seek inhabitant who has no London are not believed revenge on the real culprit. knowledge of the modern world, capable of raonal thought, but and both become pawns in a at age fourteen she leaves her murderer's diabolical plan that The Girl in the Steel Corset sheltered world and begins to reveals disturbing truths about the teenagers' by Kady Cross learn startling truths about her origins. Finley, who has a beastly alter‐ego, past while facing danger in the present. joins Duke Griffin’s army of misfits to Equee and Espionage help stop a criminal known as the Mortal Engines by Gail Carriger Machinist, who is responsible for a by Philip Reeve In an alternate England of 1851, series of automaton crimes, from In the distant future, when spirited fourteen‐year‐old carrying out a plan to kill Queen cies move about and Sophronia is enrolled in a Victoria. consume smaller towns, a finishing school where lessons fieen‐year‐old apprence is include not only the fine arts of Incarceron by Catherine Fisher pushed out of London by the dance, dress, and equee, but To free herself from an upcoming man he most admires and also diversion, deceit, and espionage. arranged marriage, Claudia, the must seek answers in the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, perilous Out‐Country, aided by one girl and the The Dark Unwinding by a futurisc prison with a mind of its memory of another. Sharon Cameron own, decides to help a young prisoner When seventeen‐year‐old escape. The Dark Deeps Katharine is sent to her family's by Arthur Slade estate to prove that her uncle is The Friday Society Fourteen‐year‐old Modo, a insane, she finds he is an inventor by Adrienne Kress shape‐changing hunchback, and whose work creang ingenious Three very intelligent and talented Octavia take on a mission as clockwork figures supports young women all serve as assistants to secret agents for the Permanent hundreds of families, but strange occurrences powerful men. Their lives become Associaon in Victorian London, soon have her doubng her own sanity. intertwined aer a chance meeng at invesgang the cause behind a ball that ends with the discovery of a the sinking of several ships in the same place. murdered mystery man. .