Inga is no ordinary 11-year-old girl and it isn't just her crown of white blond hair that makes her different. Standing with the orphan children she stares ahead with a grim expression, waiting to be chosen for a mother's helper. In 1888, girls are expected to cook, sew, clean and scrub the laundry but Inga has other ideas. She'd rather solve problems than clean; improve machines than cook. But then she's adopted by Mr. Duffy to help his wife, the town pie maker. Lugging her carpet bag she trudges behind her new parents who, to her surprise, live in a blacksmith shop... filled with tools! Oh the things she could make! If only she didn't have to spend so much time peeling apples... or does she? Inga engineers her way through Floyd County Iowa as the Swedish girl who can fix things. But does she go too far? From the author of Emmet's Storm, winner of Best STEM Book, comes the second book in the Floyd County Chronicles, Inga's Amazing Ideas.

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This was such fun to write. I could picture my young self, trying to get machines to work, copying my adored mechanic father. Just put it back a hundred years or so. Girls were capable then, of much more that spinning a parasol. They trained horses, churned and roasted and baked in primitive homes, and still kept their pinafores white and starched. All but Inga--the tools in her pockets always dragged at her apron. When she decided to improve a wooden leg, things got dicey. And the racecar powered by a carriage wheel caused a ruckus among the local chickens. In those days STEMs held up tomatoes, but Inga was ahead of her time and had the stubborn Swedish attitude to make things work.

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