Books with title The Boneshaker

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

A contemporary young adult novel with a chilling, historical twist Ben has moved from Manchester to Caernarfon, with his parents who have bought a pub for renovation. He is an outsider in a new place and wants to fit in. He would like to get to know a girl called Haf a bit better, but can’t figure out how. In the process of working on the building a collection of bones comes to light—a child’s bones. When Ben is given the task of disposing of them, he faces a moral dilemma. He must do as his father asks—but how can he? The story of the bones unfolds in a chilling tale.