I opened my review of Dominion , by Shane Arbuthnott, with this teaser: "Are you in need of a steampunk fantasy set in an alternate ...

The Tombs , by Deborah Schaumberg (Harper Teen, Feb 20 2018), is a tense and atmospheric story set in an alternate 19th-century New York, ...

Dominion , by Shane Arbuthnott  (Orca Book Publishers, Middle Grade/Tween, February, 2017) Are you in need of a steampunk fantasy set in...

Mysteries of Cove: Fires of Invention , by J. Scott Savage (Shadow Mountain Publishing, Sept 29, 2015, middle grade) is a great book to gi...

The Incredible Charlotte Sycamore , by Kate Maddison (Holiday House, 2013, mg/ya) is a lightly romantic steampunk mystery for tweens (whic...

Sometimes even picky readers of historical fiction (ie, me) are allowed to just enjoy the ride, especially when the ride in question is to...

The Dead Gentleman , by Matthew Cody (Knopf, 2011, mg, 288 pages) In 1901, an eleven year old New York street urchin named Tommy Learner ste...

The Bloomswell Diaries , by Louis L. Buitendag (Kane Miller, 2011, middle grade, 272 pages) Young Ben Bloomswell is used to his parents goin...

Originally I had four books in my list, now I'm up to six. It might change again.... Here I am, squeaking in under the wire with a post ...

Colleen at Chasing Ray is spearheading a week devoted to Steampunk books ! Keep checking in at her place for links to posts, and do feel fr...

Leviathan , by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse, 2009, YA, 448 pages), was that lovely sort of book which exceeds one's expectations. I kne...