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Steampunk Fiction
The Dark Unwinding: Sharon Cameron
YA F CAMERON Lexile Score: 890
In 1852, when Katharine is sent to her uncle's estate to prove his madness, she finds he is an inventor whose clockwork figures support
nearby families, but strange occurrences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
Etiquette & Espionage: Gail Carriger
YA F CARRIGER Lexile Score: HL780
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn,
lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
Clockwork Angel: Cassandra Clare
YA F CLARE Lexile Score: HL780
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's
dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing
Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
Airman: Eoin Colfer
YA F COLFER Lexile Score: 800
When Conor discovers a plot to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor and imprisoned where he plans a daring escape by way of a
flying machine that he must design, build, and trust to carry him to safety.
The Girl in the Steel Corset: Kady Cross
YA F CROSS
Finley, who has a beastly alter ego inside of her, joins Duke Griffin's army of misfits to help stop the Machinist, the criminal behind a series
of automaton crimes, from carrying out a plan to kill Queen Victoria during the Jubilee.
Extracted: Sherry D. Ficklin
YA F FICKLIN
The Tesla Institute is a premier academy that trains young time travelers called Rifters. Created by Nicola Tesla, the Institute seeks special
individuals who can help preserve the time stream against those who try to alter it.
Incarceron: Catherine Fisher
YA F FISHER Lexile Score: HL600
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of
its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
Clockwork Scarab: Colleen Gleason
YA F GLEASON Lexile Score: 880
In 1889 London young women are turning up dead, and Evaline Stoker, relative of Bram, and Mina Holmes, niece of Sherlock, are
summoned to investigate the clue of the not-so-ancient Egyptian scarabs--but where does a time traveler fit in?
Dearly, Departed: Lia Habel
YA F HABEL
In the year 2195 when society is technologically advanced but follows the social norms of Victorian England, orphaned Nora Dearly is left at
the mercy of her domineering, social climbing aunt, until she is nearly kidnapped by zombies.
The Iron Thorn: Caitlin Kittredge
YA F KITTREDGE
In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave
the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve her family’s mysteries.
The Friday Society: Adrienne Kress
YA F KRESS Lexile Score: HL710
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that ends with the
discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this crime without drawing undue attention to themselves.
Airborn: Kenneth Oppel
YA F OPPEL Lexile Score: 760
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence
of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
Steampunk!
YA F STEAMPUNK Lexile Score: 940
A collection of fourteen fantasy stories, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, and other marvels that never
existed.
Leviathan: Scott Westerfeld
YA F WESTERFELD Lexile Score: 790
The year is 1914 and the world is embroiled in a global war. However, this war is fought by giant airships and monstrous, walking death
machines.
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy that
is set in an era where steam is still the main source of
power. Usually it’s the 19th century and often takes place in
Victorian era England. The story features elements of
science fiction or fantasy – for example, fictional
technological inventions or it might feature real
technologies occurring earlier than it did in our time.