| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
373 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Hungry city chronicles |
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Reeve, Philip.
Hungry city chronicles.
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| Note |
2007 Teen Nutmeg Book Award (nominee). |
| Contents |
Part 1: The hunting ground -- Valentine -- The waste chute -- The out-country -- The Lord Mayor -- Speedwell -- High London -- The trading center -- The Jenny Haniver -- The 13th Floor Elevator -- Airhaven -- The gasbag and gondola -- The resurrected man -- The guildhall -- The Rustwater Marshes -- The turd tanks -- The pirate suburb -- Bevis -- The Sea of Khazak -- The Black Island -- In the engineerium -- Grike -- MEDUSA -- Part 2: An agent of the league -- The historians -- Batmunkh Gompa -- Dr. Arkengarth remembers -- A stranger in the mountains of heaven -- Going home -- A hero's welcome -- The eavesdropper -- Chudleigh Pomeroy sees it through -- Wine and nibbles and the dawn of a new era -- Idea for a fireworks display -- The cathedral -- The shadow of bones -- The bird roads. |
| 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. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 6.6 13.0 74320. |
| Awards |
Nestlé Smarties book prize Gold Award. |
|
Whitbread Children's book award shortlist. |
| Subject |
Science fiction.
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| ISBN |
0060082097 paperback $6.99 |
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