Traction City (5 page)

 

One of the greatest fantasy worlds ever created. Read them all…

 

 

 

Aboard London, lowly apprentice Tom Natsworthy longs to be part of the next attack. When he saves his chief from a mad assassin, he is suddenly flung from the speeding city with a mysterious scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wastelands, tracked by an unstoppable cyborg programmed to kill them…

 

 

 

A lone, frozen city speeds across the northern Ice Wastes. Far above, a tiny, crippled aircraft falls from the sky. Tom and Hester seek refuge from enemy gunships in ghostly Anchorage. But the silent city is full of deadly secrets…

 

 

 

The mighty engines of Anchorage are dead. Life on the static city is worlds away from the terrors of Tom and Hester's war-torn past. But their teenage daughter Wren longs for adventure. One ebellious act unleashes a lethal conflict that threatens to destroy them all…

 

 

 

The greatest predator city of them all lies in ruins. London is dead, but rumours spread that its metal corpse hides incredible secrets. Tom and Hester have been torn apart by war and treachery. And the next generation of adventurers is about to face the final battle as their world explodes around them…

 

THE PREQUELS

 

 

Thousands of years from now, a baby is abandoned in the ruins of London. Rescued by some eccentric Engineers, Fever Crumb grows up unaware that she is the keeper of an explosive secret. Are the mysterious powers she possesses the key that will save London from a new and terrible enemy?

 

 

 

In a faraway corner of a ruined world, a mysterious boy is building a flying machine. Birds help him, and so does a beautiful, brilliant engineer called Fever Crumb. Powerful enemies stalk them – either to possess their fantastic invention, or to destroy the secrets of flight forever.

 

 

 

In a future land once known as Britain, nomad tribes are preparing to fight a terrifying enemy - the first-ever traction city. In the chaotic weeks before battle begins, Fever Crumb must journey to the wastelands of the North in search of a mysterious black pyramid, whose secrets will change her world forever.

 

 

First published in the UK in 2011 by Scholastic Children's Books

This electronic edition published in 2012 by Scholastic Children's Books

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