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    The Brass Giant: A Chroniker City Story
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    The Brass Giant: A Chroniker City Story

    By Brooke Johnson

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    Sometimes, even the most unlikely person can change the world

    Seventeen-year-old Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible dream for a lowly shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up and tinkers with any machine she can get her hands on, in between working and babysitting her foster siblings.

    When Emmerich Goss—handsome, privileged, and newly recruited into the Guild—needs help designing a new clockwork system for a top-secret automaton, it seems Petra has finally found the opportunity she's been waiting for. But if her involvement on the project is discovered, Emmerich will be marked for treason, and a far more dire fate will await Petra.

    Working together in secret, they build the clockwork giant, but as the deadline for its completion nears, Petra discovers a sinister conspiracy from within the Guild council…and their automaton is just the beginning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 5, 2015
    ISBN9780062387165
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    The Brass Giant: A Chroniker City Story
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    Brooke Johnson

    Brooke Johnson is a stay-at-home mom and tea-loving writer. As the jack-of-all-trades bard of the family, she journeys through life with her husband, daughter, and dog. She currently resides in Northwest Arkansas but hopes to one day live somewhere more mountainous. Follow her on Twitter.

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      Good start but Petra needs to recover the spunky spirit she demonstrates in the beginning. Her separation from the wimpy hero should help in the next .