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Fires of Invention

by J. Scott Savage · 2015

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Trenton Colman is a creative thirteen-year-old boy with a knack for all things mechanical. But his talents are viewed with suspicion in Cove, a steam-powered city built inside a mountain. In Cove, creativity is a crime and "invention" is a curse word.

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Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, whose father died in an explosion—an event the leaders of Cove point to as an example of the danger of creativity.

Working together, Trenton and Kallista learn that Leo Babbage was developing a secret project before he perished. Following clues he left behind, they begin to assemble a strange machine that is unlike anything they've ever seen before. They soon discover that what they are building may threaten every truth their city is founded on—and quite possibly their very lives.

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dragonsdragonsMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thissteampunksteampunkMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thisdystopiadystopiaMore like thisLess of this
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Audience
middle gradechildrensyoung adult
Length
medium · 312 pages

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