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Violence
Some
WWI combat in an alternate history setting; airship and walker battles; deaths of secondary characters
Language
Barely any
Clean language appropriate for younger readers
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content; the heroine disguises herself as a boy for most of the book
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of carrying a secret identity in a world at war
What this book is about
In an alternate WWI Europe, the Allied Darwinists engineer living war machines while the Central Powers build mechanical ones. Prince Alek of Austria-Hungary flees his father's assassination in a Walker, while Deryn Sharp disguises herself as a boy to serve aboard the living airship Leviathan. Scott Westerfeld's steampunk YA delivers inventive world-building and a clever adventure.
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