Storm Thief is a 2006 dystopian science-fiction novel written by Chris Wooding and published by Scholastic Books.
It features a group of outcasts on the run, a mysterious artifact, a golem with a shadowed past, an underground resistance movement, a corrupt government, the downfall of two civilizations, and a seabird.
It falls out of the sky with exhaustion and crashes through a window, dying, where it is found by a strange golem-like creature.
Then later that day in the other side of Orokos in the ghettos, the two protagonists, Rail and Moa, are sent on a mission to steal from the hideous creatures called Mozgas.
The three proceed to discover the truth behind their unjust society.. Chris Wooding, Storm Thief, 2006, Scholastic