Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve

Recommendation by Dominic Stafford
The orphan Fever Crumb grows up the only girl in the order of engineers in a London recently ravaged by riots against the tyrannical mutated humans called The Heritage. Soon Fever Crumb is submerged in weird memories that aren’t hers and pursued by people who have realised her heritage.
A really good book set in the world of Mortal Engines. 9/10

2010 Carnegie Book Award

The Carnegie Short List has arrived! Having a quick trawl through the titles, Fever Crumb is the first to go. A preliminary assessment gives The Graveyard Book our award for Best Cover and Best First Paragraph. Rowan the Strange, whilst we found the cover frightening, won for Best Blurb.