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Trenton Colman is a creative thirteen-year-old boy with a knack for all things mechanical. But his talents are viewed with suspicion in Cove, a steam-powered city built inside a mountain. In Cove, creativity is a crime and invention" is a curse word. Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, whose father died in an explosion-an event the leaders of Cove point to as an example of the danger of creativity. Working...

"Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double...

Forget the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland you know. Because in Umberland, the only way out is into the madness. Gwen, Pete, and the others have escaped from Everland. But the safe haven they hoped to find at Alnwick Castle doesn't exist. With the Queen of England on her deathbed, Duchess Alyssa has stepped in, but things have gotten worse as the cure Doc created for the Horologia virus has mutated, accelerating the disease. The only possible...

For Tycho Hashoone and his family, space privateering on their ship Shadow Comet is a way of life--that just got a lot more complicated. Earth is mounting an arms race, and has started recruiting privateers of their own. Meanwhile, the Ice Wolves of Saturn are on the offensive, using ruthless tactics reminscent of pirates of old. The Jovian Union, trapped between the two, asks the Hashoones for help, and the stage is set for a showdown on the Cybele...

Intercepting a thief escaping from Lady Harleston's townhouse, Edward is swept up in a terrible scheme that threatens Mars, pits him against thugs, and forces him to question who he can trust.

It was only a few weeks ago that the Biedermann twins, Tess and Theo, along with their friend Jaime Cruz, followed the secrets of the Morningstarrs' cipher further than anyone had in its century-and-a-half history -- and destroyed their beloved home in the process. But the Old York Cipher still isn't solved. The demolition of 354 W. 73rd Street only revealed the next clue in the greatest mystery of the modern world, and if Tess, Theo, and Jaime want...

"Scarlett Hart, orphaned daughter of two legendary monster hunters, is determined to carry on in her parents' footsteps--even if the Royal Academy for the Pursuit and Eradication of Zoological Eccentricities says she's too young. Whether it's creepy mummies or a horrid hound, Scarlett won't back down, and with the help of her loyal butler and a lot of monster-mashing gadgets, she's on the case. But with her parents' archrival, Count Stankovic, taking...

Blue is an orphan who disguises herself as a newsboy at the only paper in town that tells the truth during the war, but she struggles with her secret and befriends Crow, a boy who is also not what he seems.