Our first protagonist is young Tom Natsworthy, a teenage Apprentice Historian in the roaming city of London. London has returned to a more Victorian age in both apparel and societal expectation. The 1800’s British class system is now replaced with four major guilds. The guilds do all the necessary work to keep London running. Leadbeater, Alex (5 June 2018). "The 7 Biggest Changes Mortal Engines Makes To The Book". Screen Rant . Retrieved 29 October 2019.

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Alternatively, Jakob Wegelius' The Murderer's Ape(and its graphic novel prequel, The Legend of Sally Jones) is an original, well-told tale of an ape who, with the help of a vivid cast of characters, fights for the release of her best friend, who has been falsely accused of murder. Join in! Asia – The stronghold of the Anti-Traction League. Eastern China is evidently eradicated by the War and the Himalayas serve as the center for Anti-Tractionist civilization, where the mountains make it impossible for mobile cities to approach. A few of the people in Mortal Engines are named after places in Devon, where Reeve lives, including Chudleigh, Tamerton Foliot and the River Plym. In the quartet, Miss Plym and Chudleigh Pomeroy are both in the Guild of Historians, and Tamarton Foliot is an "Alternative" historian. Both Shrike and Smew are named after birds, and Pennyroyal is named after a flower. [5] Title [ ] Also, The Wild Robotis an unusual but brilliant book about a robot, Roz, who finds herself marooned on a desert island. For more steampunk...While I’m clearly coming down hard on the book – I didn’t hate it. I’d be hard pressed to recommend it given so many other good books out there. However, it does have a charm to it. Reeve’s prose is well done and the concepts he utilized, while ridiculous, are fun and engaging. I’ll give the book a 3/5 but even then I’m being generous. The original drafts were intended to be an adult novel but after several rejections, Scholastic said they might be interested in Mortal Engines as a children's story. In the refactoring the story was simplified, removing several characters and much content such as the city politics that Reeve thought would not be interesting to children. [9] [10] Ezard, John (28 September 2006). "Philip Reeve wins the Guardian children's fiction prize". Guardian Unlimited. London. Archived from the original on 23 January 2007 . Retrieved 21 December 2007. As always, we wanted to hear your recommendations, and toget you started, we asked School Librarian of the Year Emma Suffield for her thoughts: 'Fans of Mortal Engines' fantasy setting would also love the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman, and those wanting more steampunk could try Terror Train by Terry Deary and Show Stopper by Hayley Barker.'

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Shrike (also known in the American release of the series as Grike), an ancient Stalker who raised Hester after her parents were killed and seeks to turn her into a Stalker so she can be with him forever.

Magnus Crome, the Lord Mayor of London and the Head of the Guild of Engineers, who seeks to make London the greatest traction city in the world by using a mysterious superweapon called MEDUSA. Anna Fang, a friendly but deadly aviatrix and Anti-Tractionist agent who rescues Hester and Tom from being sold into slavery. Katherine Valentine – Thaddeus Valentine's daughter who, after uncovering her father's dark secret, attempts to stop him with help from Bevis Pod and the Guild of Historians. She is accidentally killed by Thaddeus shortly before the destruction of MEDUSA and London. This story would later be rewritten as the short story Traction City Blues in the compilation Night Flights.