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Mortal engines / Philip Reeve.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reeve, Philip. Mortal engines quartet ; Publisher: New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2018]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 296 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781407189147
  • 140718914X
  • 1338303716
  • 9781338303711
  • 1338201123
  • 9781338201123
Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Smarties Gold Award.
  • Blue Peter Book of the Year.
Summary: In 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.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
YA Book YA Book Main Library YA Fiction Reeve, Philip Available 33111009161924
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The first book in the award-winning Mortal Enginesquartet.

In a dangerous future, huge motorized cities hunt, attack and fight each other for survival.

As London pursues a small town, young apprentice Tom is flung out into the wastelands, where a terrifying cyborg begins to hunt him down.

Mortal Engineslaunched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future. Mortal Engineswon the coveted Gold Smarties Award. Now a feature film of the same name, starring Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan and Hugo Weaving. Produced by Lord of the Rings director, Peter Jackson.

"Soon to be a major motion picture"--Cover.

Movies tie-in.

Includes excerpt from book 2, Predator's Gold.

In 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.

Smarties Gold Award.

Blue Peter Book of the Year.

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