I’ve written a new edition of this novel with the help of Sandi Boucher.

I’m working on getting it in the hands of readers. More as it breaks!

“Julia Mary Gibson’s quiet masterpiece is an effortless alloy of magic and science …  I fell as much in love with Violet Blake’s multi-talented, multi-racial, generous, loving, crazy-flawed family as with Violet herself, teetering on the edge of childhood and maturity just as the Midwest teeters on the edge of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Violet’s world swallowed me whole.”

– Elizabeth Wein, author of Code Name Verity 

•  Kirkus starred review!  (“Fresh, subtle, daring …”)

•  A nice review!  And another!

•  Interview with one of my fave characters, Miss Nadia.

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” … filled with tension!”

– Loren, age 10