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Gr 5-8–This gripping debut novel opens with a prologue that describes how the fairies left their own land, came to England, fought a war with the humans, and lost, leading to a mechanical Age of Smoke where church bells, iron, and mechanics are used to prevent magic. In this alternative world, Bartholomew Kettle and his sister, Hettie, are changelings, also called Peculiars, children of a human mother and a faery father who has abandoned the family. They live in the faery slums of Bath and follow their mother’s rule, “Don’t get yourself n...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In an alternate-reality England, a temporary door to the faery world has led to war, and the industrial revolution has hampered the stranded faeries’ magic, resulting in a steampunk version of London and Bath with faeries as the oppressed immigrant population. Changelings -- here, the result of mixed marriages -- are called “Peculiars,” and lately several of them have turned up dead, and hollow, floating in the Thames. Changeling Bartholomew Kettle is kept mostly hidden by his mother, but when he witnesses, from his window, a bea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In an alternate-reality England, a temporary door to the faery world has led to war, and the industrial revolution has hampered the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More