TY - BOOK AU - Westerfeld, Scott TI - Leviathan SN - 9781416971740 U1 - Fiction WES-S PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Simon Pulse KW - Fiction KW - Genetic engineering KW - Princes KW - Animals, Mythical KW - Sex role KW - Airships KW - Brothers and sisters KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Orphans N1 - It is on the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employed genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides of the war. But their paths cross most unexpectedly, taking them aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure….One that will change both their lives forever. In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn, who, disguised as a boy, to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts ER -