Epictainment

Synopsis Trenton is a kid who is good at anything to do with machines. He's also super creative, which is bad. It's bad because he lives in a city where being creative and inventing new things is considered a crime. He finds this out when he is nearly sentenced to retraining, a.k.a brainwashing, for building a new type of swing to impress a girl named Simoni. Things start getting even more bad for him when he and a mysterious girl named Kallista start finding pieces to an invention left behind by the lunatic Leo Babbage, who happens to be Kallista's father. On top of all that, he feels like his mother has betrayed him when she refuses to allow him to pursue a job as a mechanic. Negative Things There is one exclamation of "oh my g*sh" and one h*oly. Most of the characters lie frequently, but it all gets resolved when the liars have to confront the web of deception they wove to cover their tracks. The book makes a very clear lying-is-an evil stance. There is als