Mortal Engines
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Author:
Series:
Hungry city chronicles. Main series volume 1.
Published:
Scholastic Inc. 2012
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure:
990L
Status:
Checked Out
Description
The epic city-eat-city adventure is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester Shaw is a heroine for the ages. The moment we finished reading this book we knew we wanted to make it into a movie." — Producer Peter Jackson* "Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." — School Library Journal, starred reviewNow a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed.In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage — and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.Beloved storyteller Philip Reeve creates a brilliant new world in the Mortal Engines series, called "phenomenal... violent and romantic, action-packed and contemplative, funny and frightening" by the Sunday Times.
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Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
06/01/2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780545394437
ASIN:
B0080K383I
Accelerated Reader:
MG+
Level 6.6, 13 Points
Level 6.6, 13 Points
Lexile measure:
990
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APA Citation (style guide)
Philip Reeve. (2012). Mortal Engines. Scholastic Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Philip Reeve. 2012. Mortal Engines. Scholastic Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines. Scholastic Inc, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Philip Reeve. Mortal Engines. Scholastic Inc, 2012.
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Like the moving cities it depicts, Reeve's debut novel is a staggering feat of engineering, a brilliant construction that offers new wonders at every turn. In the Europe of the future, the great cities have uprooted themselves from the Earth and donned wheels; roving the Hunting Ground that was once Europe, cities literally devour one another as part of a new social construct called Municipal Darwinism. The mighty city of London, in danger of running out of "prey," looks toward the east, where an enormous wall protects the static cities of the Anti-Traction League—the "heretics" who have chosen the barbaric practice of living on the bare earth. But London's mad Lord Mayor develops a plan to get through the wall: he resurrects a vicious and ancient technology, a post–20th-century update of the nuclear bomb, all the more horrible with time and refinement, and mounts it in the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Against this wildly original backdrop plays the story of Tom Natsworthy, a young Apprentice Historian who helps mine the museum vaults of the juggernaut London. Tom becomes embroiled with his idol, the elder Historian Valentine, and also with the scarred girl Hester who owes Valentine a debt of vengeance. Reeve's prose is sweeping and cinematic, his ideas bold and effortless; he deftly weaves in social commentary on the perils of both war and consumerism, and presents the calamities that can result from poverty and extreme wealth occupying the same quarters. Ages 12-up.
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