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Storm Thief
by Chris Wooding
This book was recommended to me by a student. I am so glad for the recommendation. I had been helping her find Dystopian novels for upper elementary school levels. She in turn told me about this one. Moa and Rail are two Ghetto children in a world where there is a Protectorate (Government Police Entity) and differing levels of society down to the ghetto. Those in the ghetto aren't helped at all. They are looked upon as the lowest level of society and are forced to steal and hide to survive a harsh world. This is a world where strange storms come quickly that change the entire makeup of a person, place, or thing. Revenants (Ghosts of a sort) take over bodies of living beings. Moa and Rail have discovered an artifact. They don't understand the significance of it until they are sought after by different people. This brings them to meet Vago, a golem who seemed to be born of the strange storms. The story is a great one for those who are seeking novels that combine science fiction and a bit of steampunk.