Fires of Invention: Volume 1 -- J. Scott Savage, Paperback

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
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Published: 08/02/2016
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781629721569
Audience: Ages 9-12

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

About the Author
J. Scott Savage is the author of the Farworld middle-grade fantasy series and the Case File 13 middle-grade monster series. He has published more than seventeen novels, visited more than 1,400 schools, and taught dozens of writing classes. He has four children, five grandchildren, and lives with his wife, Jennifer, in a windy valley of the Rocky Mountains.