Fires of Invention: Volume 1

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.

Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, who 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Published: 09/29/2015
ISBN: 9781629720920
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/22/2015
School Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 91
Booklist 08/01/2015 pg. 67
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/02/2015 pg. 66

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 177827 / Fires of Invention
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 13