num_pages: 310
description: A sixteen-year-old governess becomes a spy in this alternative U.S. history where the British control with magic and the colonists rebel by inventing.Its 1888 and sixteen-year-old Verity Newton lands a job in New York as a governess to a wealthy leading familybut she quickly learns that the family has big secrets. Magisters have always ruled the colonies but now an underground society of mechanics and engineers are developing non-magical sources of power via steam engines that they hope will help them gain freedom from British rule. The family Verity works for is magisterbut it seems like the children's young guardian uncle is sympathetic to the rebel cause. As Verity falls for a charming rebel inventor and agrees to become a spy she also becomes more and more enmeshed in the magister familys life. She soon realizes shes uniquely positioned to advance the causebut to do so shell have to reveal her own dangerous secret.
language: English
title: Rebel Mechanics
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)