{{Short description|1996 novel by Kerry Greenwood}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2015}}
{{Infobox book| <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = The Broken Wheel | image = | caption = | author = Kerry Greenwood | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | genre = Young adult, science fiction | publisher = Moonstone | pub_date = 1996 | media_type = Print (Paperback) | pages = 155 (first edition) | isbn = 978-0-7322-5621-0 | oclc = }}
'''''The Broken Wheel''''' is a 1996 young adult science fiction novel by Kerry Greenwood.
==Background== ''The Broken Wheel'' was first published in Australia in 1996 by Moonstone in paperback format.<ref name="ISFDB TBW">{{cite web | url = http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?8874 | title = Bibliography: The Broken Wheel | publisher = ISFDB | date = | accessdate = 2010-01-20}}</ref> It won in a tie situation with Hillary Bell's ''Mirror, Mirror'' the 1996 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel.<ref name="AAPYR">{{cite web | url = http://www.aurealisawards.com/downloads/history1995_2008.pdf.pdf | title = aurealis awards, previous years' results | publisher = Aurealis Awards | accessdate = 2010-01-20 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20101224172144/http://www.aurealisawards.com/downloads/history1995_2008.pdf.pdf | archivedate = 2010-12-24 }}</ref>
==Plot summary== After an apocalyptic event, the survivors have formed into groups. These include the Travellers, who trade in small goods; the medievalists in the enclave Thorngard; the Tribe, a loose gathering of nomads; and in the city the Breakers, who destroy every machine they find, blaming the machines for the disaster. Sarah, a child of the Breakers, joins with the Travellers in an attempt to save the world from destruction.
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