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Teen Tech Week Book List Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld YA FIC Westerfeld In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year- old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical ma- chinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genet- ically-engineered beasts. (1st in Leviathan Series) Teen Tech Find us, like us, follow us! Week Book List Malverne Public STEAMPUNK Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld Library Youth Service YA FIC Westerfeld Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a @MalvernePL whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships. (2nd in Leviathan Series) Goliath by Scott Westerfeld YA FIC Westerfeld Malverne Public Library Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on 61 St. Thomas Place February 2014 the last leg of their round-the-world quest Malverne, NY 11565 to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne (516) 599-0750 as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. Malvernelibrary.org (3rd in Leviathan Series) The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent YA FIC Trent Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend Rich and Strange Stories edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural crea- YA SS Steampunk tures in her father's museum, but as she gets A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by older, the requirement to become a lady and well-known authors, set in the age of steam find a husband is looming large over her. engines and featuring automatons, clock- Syrus Reed's Tinker family has always served works, calculating machines, and other and revered the Unnaturals from afar, but marvels that never existed. Airman by Eoin Colfer when his family is captured for refinery slaves, YA FIC Colfer he finds that his fate may be bound up with The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson In the late nineteenth century, when J FIC Sanderson Vespa's--and with the Unnaturals. As the dan- Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to As Wild Chalklings threaten the American ger grows, Vespa and Syrus find themselves in overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only de- a tightening web of deception and intrigue. imprisoned, and forced to mine for dia- fense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist monds under brutal conditions while he At stake may be the fate of New London-- students learn the magical art that he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee and the world . would do anything to practice. prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust Steampunk Poe by Edgar Allen Poe to carry him to safety. YA 818.309 Poe A collection of Poe's short stories and poems, Steampunk Frankenstein by Mary Shelley including "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the YA FIC Shelley House of Usher," and "The Raven," accompa- Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of nied by steampunk-inspired illustrations. creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruc- Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff tion to the lives of those he loves after the In the adult section FIC Kristoff creature is rejected by society. In this dystopian steampunk fantasy set against a backdrop of feudal Japan, warrior Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger Incarceron by Catherine Fisher Yukiko captures a supposedly extinct (but YA FIC Carriger YA FIC Fisher crippled) griffin for the Shogun, then learns -- In an alternate England of 1851, spirited To free herself from an upcoming arranged after meeting secretive Kin and the rebel fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Kage cabal -- of the horrifying extent of the finishing school where, she is suprised to Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison Shogun's crimes, both against her country learn, lessons include not only the fine arts with a mind of its own, decides to help a and her family. Returning to the city, Yukiko is young prisoner escape. determined to make the Shogun pay -- but of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also what can one girl and a flightless griffin do diversion, deceit, and espionage. (1st in against the might of an empire? Finishing School series) .
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