What you need to know before you read:
This book is a work of young adult fiction and is rated grade 6-10 by The School Library Journal. Based on my previous experiences with YA fiction, I would rate this text as appropriate for children as young 10. This book features parental expectationn, prejudice and the division of social classes as central themes, and parents should be prepared to answer questions about these issues. There is also some romantic overtones, but they are kept well within the range of what is acceptable for a work rated 10 and up.
From the dust jacket:
Col Porpentine understands how society works: the elite families enjoy a comfortable life on the Upper Decks of the great juggernaut Worldshaker, while the Filthies toil Below. And Col himself is being groomed by his grandfather, the supreme commander of the Worldshaker, to be his successor. He has never questioned his place in the world, nor his illustrious future.
When Col meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, his world is turned on its head. All his life he has been taught that Filthies are like animals, without the ability to understand language or think for themselves. He has always known that all they are good for is serving in the Below, keeping Worldshaker running. But Riff is nothing like he ever expected. She is clever and quick, and despite the danger, Col is drawn to her. Can all Filthies be like her? If Riff is telling the truth, then everything Col has always believed is a lie. And Col may be the only person with the power to do something about it--even if it means risking his whole future.
Richard Harland's sweeping steampunk saga of romance, privilege, and social conscience will take readers on the ride of a lifetime to an enormous moving city that is at once strange and familiar.
Col Porpentine understands how society works: the elite families enjoy a comfortable life on the Upper Decks of the great juggernaut Worldshaker, while the Filthies toil Below. And Col himself is being groomed by his grandfather, the supreme commander of the Worldshaker, to be his successor. He has never questioned his place in the world, nor his illustrious future.
When Col meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, his world is turned on its head. All his life he has been taught that Filthies are like animals, without the ability to understand language or think for themselves. He has always known that all they are good for is serving in the Below, keeping Worldshaker running. But Riff is nothing like he ever expected. She is clever and quick, and despite the danger, Col is drawn to her. Can all Filthies be like her? If Riff is telling the truth, then everything Col has always believed is a lie. And Col may be the only person with the power to do something about it--even if it means risking his whole future.
Richard Harland's sweeping steampunk saga of romance, privilege, and social conscience will take readers on the ride of a lifetime to an enormous moving city that is at once strange and familiar.
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