Philip Reeve
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
"With the great Traction City of London completely destroyed, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw travel across the world, trading with other airships and adventuring on the exciting and exotic routes of the Bird Roads. When their little scrapyard aircraft, the Jenny Haniver, is pursued by rocket-firing gunships, the ice city of Anchorage offers them sanctuary. But as Tom and Hester soon discover, it is no safe refuge. Devastated by plague in recent years...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
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.
3) A web of air
Author
Series
Fever Crumb volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
London is a radioactive ruin. But 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 the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.The final book in the Mortal Engines series, Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is the winner of the Guardian Children's...
5) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Fever Crumb volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Myrtle and Art, living with their father in an old Victorian house that floats in Earth's orbit, are called upon to save themselves and the universe in a wide-ranging adventure that begins with their escape from an invasion of elephant-sized white spiders and their rescue by notorious space pirate Jack Havock.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorized cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang -- pilot, adventurer, spy -- isn't afraid. These three stories show gripping, moving, exciting moments in Anna Fang's life: her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, a showdown against a robotic Stalker that is terrifyingly out of control, and her free life as an intelligence agent for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads her parents, Tom and Hester, back into battle with old enemies and new.
10) Scrivener's moon
Author
Series
Fever Crumb volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Here lies Arthur
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur.
13) Station Zero
Author
Series
Railhead volume 3
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
After receiving a mysterious coded message, Zen Starling abandons his life of luxury and, with the help of sentient trains, goes in search of android Nova, who plans to reawaken the Railmaker.
14) Cakes in space
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"When ten-year-old Astra and her family move to a new planet, she must save the spaceship and its crew from man-eating cakes, aliens, and more"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling Books, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Get ready for mischievous monkeys, moving islands, and a splashy adventure with illustrations on almost every page. When Oliver's explorer parents go missing, he sets sail to find them with some new friends. There is a grumpy albatross, a nearsighted mermaid . . . even a living island, but the high seas are more exciting and strange than Oliver could have imagined. Can he and his crew spar with sarcastic seaweed, outrun an army of sea monkeys, win...
16) Goblins
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Young Skarper has always been a different sort of goblin, more interested in knowledge and information than eating and throwing rocks, and it gets him into trouble--but it may also be the key to saving Clovenstone from a dark sorcerer.
Author
Series
Railhead volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Zen Starling, a small-time thief, and Nova, an android girl come from the Network Empire, whose stations are scattered across the galaxy and linked by the K-gates and the sentient trains travel at light speed between them--but the gate through which theyjust passed was a new one, and they have no way of knowing into what danger it might have led them.
Author
Series
Not-so-impossible tales volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"When Oliver's explorer parents go missing, he sets sail on the rescue mission with some new, unexpected friends"--
19) Incredible Incas
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know. Why llamas wore earrings and drank beer? How a bucket of stewed pee can make you beautiful? Why servants ate the emperor's hair? Discover all the foul facts about the Incredible Incas - all the gore and more!
20) Mortal engines
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of years after our civilization was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the fight to stop London, now a giant predator city on wheels, from devouring everything its path.