Arabella of Mars

Born on Mars, sixteen-year-old Arabella Ashby enjoys many more freedoms than most girls her age, tramping around the desert with her older brother. But that liberty is not to last. Finding Mars much too unladylike for her daughters, Arabella's mother takes the girls back to London, where they're sure to find suitable husbands among the ton.

Weighed down by Earth's gravity-and her own unhappiness-Arabella dearly misses her father and their shared passion for automata. When she learns of his d...