Crudrat

<p>Maura is doomed to starve. Her space station has no further use for her.<br><br><strong><em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Gail Carriger brings you a fast-paced young adult scifi adventure featuring a capable heroine her adorable pet and the alien they accidentally rescue.</strong><br><br>Abandoned<br><br>Outcast<br><br>Crudrat<br><br>With only her crud-eating murmel and a fuzzy alien stranger to help Maura must find a way to survive before they catch her and blow what's left of her life into space.<br><br>In the far future on a space-port the size of a city crudrats scrape out a meager living cleaning the great machines that generate usable power. Only children can safely traverse the cramped tunnels and the massive blades that harvest crud. But one misstep and a crudrat gets caught on a blade edge and killed. Like rats they scurry through the bulkheads duty-bound to clean the air ducts so everyone else can breathe.<br><br>But when they grow too big to be useful they become outcasts. Now one of the forgotten Maura might just be able to turn rejection into escape – if she's resourceful enough.<br><br><strong>"Of course as with much YA fiction these days the book's appeal crosses generations; Carriger's whimsical sense of humor and lightness of touch is entertaining regardless of age." ~ Tor.com (<em>Etiquette & Espionage</em>)</strong><br><br>In this classic YA adventure about finding one's place in the universe Gail Carriger brings golden age-style science fiction into the 21st century stuffs it full of heart and gives it a finely polished gleaming edge.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Also by Gail Carriger</strong><br><br>The Finishing School series (start with <em>Etiquette & Espionage</em>)<br><br>The Delightfully Deadly stories<br><br>The Parasol Protectorate series (start with <em>Soulless</em>)<br><br>The Supernatural Society stories<br><br>The Custard Protocol series (start with <em>Prudence</em>)<br><br>The Claw & Courtship stories<br><br><strong>As G L Carriger</strong><br><br><em>The 5th Gender</em> (also scifi set in the same universe)</p>