Philip Reeve

London is hunting The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism. Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine, from a murder attempt by the mysterious Hester Shaw -- only to find himself thrown from the city and stranded with Hester in the Out Country. As they struggle to follow the tracks of the city, the sinister plans of London's leaders begin to unfold ...

Mortal Engines

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.

New friends Sika and Shen try to beat the odds and win the Great Northern Race--in a sled pulled by a team of sixty-six pugs--in hopes of meeting the Snowfather and having him grant their wish.

Pugs of the frozen north

Dans un futur très lointain mais indéterminé, les villes sont montées sur roues et se pourchassent les unes les autres pour survivre. Londres roule à toute allure. Après dix ans de diète, la ville part en chasse. Mais dans ses murs, une jeune meurtrière rôde. Esther Verne s'apprête à tuer le célèbre chef de la Guilde des Ingénieurs quand Tom, un jeune apprenti, arrête son geste. Esther tombe par dessus-bord et dans sa chute, entraîne avec elle le jeune homme dans la Terra Incognita, l'océan de boue à travers lequel les villes se déplacent. Commence alors une Folle aventure pour tenter de rattraper Londres... Ce roman a obtenu le prestigieux prix Smarties en 2002 et a été nominé pour le Withbread Award.

Mécaniques fatales

Larklight

Mortal Engines (Tome 2) - L'or du prédateur

Night Flights

Gwyna is just a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in service to Myrddin the bard - a traveller and spinner of tales. But Myrddin transfroms her - into a lady goddess, a boy warrior, and a spy. Without Gwyna, Myrddin will not be able to work the most glorious transformation of all - and turn the leader of a raggle-taggle war-band into King Arthur, the greatest hero of all time.

Here Lies Arthur (Ian Mcque NE)

Neil Gaiman

Patrick Ness

Eoin Colfer

Richelle Mead

Holly Black

Derek Landy

Marcus Sedgwick

Malorie Blackman

Charlie Higson

Michael Scott

Alex Scarrow

Twelve bestselling authors, twelve Doctors, twelve brilliant adventures in time and space for all Doctor Who fans! This collection features all twelve original Doctor Who eshort stories, covering each of the twelve Doctors and written by a selection of wonderful children's authors.

Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories

Tom and Hester's daughter, Wren, longs to escape the peace of static Anchorage. She craves the dangerous adventures her parents once had - and a charming submarine pirate is ready to take her to sea. But the mysterious object that she steals for him ignites a conflict that will tear the whole world apart...

Mortal Engines 3. Infernal Devices

Predator's Gold

Art Mumby e i pirati dell'eternave

Freya delle lande di ghiaccio

Sarah McIntyre

Pugs of the Frozen North

Chris D'Lacey

The Table Football League

Un auteur culte porté à l'écran par les réalisateurs du "Seigneur des Anneaux".

Mortal Engines (Tome 1) - Mécaniques fatales

Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses th

A Darkling Plain

When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London, the city on wheels, is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain--and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.

The Third Book in the Fever Crumb Series

Scrivener's Moon

Margaret Simpson

Everybody's heard of Cleopatra - she's the most horribly famous of all of Egypt's queens. Everybody knows that she had a fling wit h Julius Caesar - and - Mark Antony and that she had a nasty acident with a snake. But in this book readers can discover everything they didn't know and never imagined, such as how Cleopatra married both her brothers and had her younger sister killed. Even though she's dead, Cleo's still full of surprises!

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