Here are some YA steampunk titles you should be reading:
The first major collection of steampunk tales for teens came out a year ago. Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, is a weighty, handsomely-bound collection of stories by noted female and male authors such as Cassandra Clare, Delia Sherman, M.T Anderson, Cory Doctorow, Garth Nix and Holly Black, among others, that feature reinterpretations of the basic accoutrements people expect to find in steampunk stories. These stories include mad inventors, child mechanics, steampunk fairies and many more, set in Ancient Rome, future Australia, alternate California, and other places â everywhere except Victorian London.
 Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances, edited by Trisha Telep
This collection of short stories by 12 female authors (including Ann Aguirre, Tessa Gratton, Caitlin Kittredge, Tiffany Trent, and Kiersten White) and one male author (Michael Scott) promises âtrue love awaits those brave enough to seek it, piece by spring-loaded, electromagnetic super-charged piece.â
 The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent
Steampunk set in Victorian-era New London where science and logic reign supreme and the citizens praise Saint Darwin and Saint Newton. Only Unnaturals have magic, but magic and witchcraft are considered heretical. Vespa is shocked to realize sheâs the last surviving witch in New London.âThe Emperorâs Manâ in the Corsets and Clockwork anthology is a prequel to this novel, and it makes more sense if you read it first.
 Innocent Darkness: The Aether Chronicles, Book 1 by Suzanne Lazear
Authorâs debut, set in an alternate 1901 California, featuring heroine Noli, whoâs sent to a reform school after taking a flying car out for a joy ride. An innocent wish results in her ending up in the Realm of Faerie, where she finds herself a pawn in this Otherworldâs survival.
 The Steampunk Chronicles series by Kady Cross
The Strange Case of Finley Jayne is the novella prequel to The Girl in the Steel Corset. In The Girl in the Steel Corset, Finley, who has a beastly alter ego inside of her, joins Duke Griffinâs army of misfits to help stop the Machinist, the criminal behind a series of automaton crimes, from carrying out a plan to kill Queen Victoria during the Jubilee.
In The Girl in the Clockwork Collar, sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne and her âstraynge band of mysfitsâ have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper, hauled off by bounty hunters. But Jasper is in the clutches of a devious former friend demanding a trade-the dangerous device Jasper stole from him ⊠for the life of the girl Jasper loves.
 Planesrunner (Everness, book 1) by Ian McDonald and Be My Enemy (Everness, book 2)
Science fiction adult author Ian McDonaldâs first YA series features 14-year-old Everett, whose father has discovered that parallel worlds exist. After his father is kidnapped, Everett searches for his father on E3, an electric steampunk parallel world with the help of the adopted daughter of a female airship captain.
Clockwork Sky, Vol. 1Â by Madeleine Rosca
This is the first volume in a manga series set in Victorian London in 1895, where robots have replaced the hired help. Sally, a mischievous 12-year-old, and Sky, a law enforcement steambot, discover that her industrial designer uncle is using live children as spare parts in their steambot production. You may know this Australian author/illustrator from her Hollow Fields series, which is also steampunk.
 The Peculiars by Maureen Doyle McQuerry
When Lena turns 18, she leaves her mother and grandmother in the city to travel by steam train to search for her father, who has disappeared into the northern wilderness called the Scree. The Scree is said to be inhabited by people called Peculiars with unusual characteristics and those with âunnatural talents.â She suspects sheâs half Peculiar because she has unusually large feet and hands with extra knuckles in each finger. She meets a wealthy man who has invented a dirigible.
 The Iron Thorn (Iron Codex series, book 1) and Nightmare Garden (Iron Codex, book 2) by Caitlin Kittredge
In an alternate, Victorian-flavored America tightly controlled by Proctors and driven by the Engine, an underground power source, a necrovirus is blamed for the cityâs epidemic of madness, the strange creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical. Aoife Graysonâs family is unique: every one of them, including her mother and her elder brother Conrad, have gone mad on their 16th birthday â and Aoifeâs 16th birthday is fast approaching.
