Fires of Invention: Volume 1 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781629720920)

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.

Author: J. Scott Savage
ISBN-10: 1629720925
ISBN-13: 9781629720920
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2015
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.20d

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


Review Citation(s):
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