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 dau
Fires of Invention
β Scribed by Savage, Scott J
- Book ID
- 109248213
- Publisher
- Shadow Mountain Publishing
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- Mysteries of Cove 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781629720920
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β¦ Synopsis
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 οΏ½inventionοΏ½ is a curse word.
Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, whose father died in an explosionοΏ½an 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 theyοΏ½ve ever seen before. They soon discover that what they are building may threaten every truth their city is founded onοΏ½and quite possibly their very lives.
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