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Inga is no ordinary 11-year-old girl and it's not just her crownof white blond hair that makes her different. Standing withthe orphan children she stares ahead with a grim expression, waiting to be chosen for a mother's helper. In 1888, girls areexpected to cook, sew, clean and scrub the laundry but Ingahas 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 parentswho, to her surprise, live in a blacksmith shop... filled withtools! Oh the things she could make! If only she didn't have tospend so much time peeling apples... or does she?Inga engineers her way through Floyd County Iowa as theSwedish girl who can fix things. But does she go too far?From the author of Emmet's Storm, winner of Best STEMBook, comes the second book in the Floyd County Chronicles, Inga's Amazing Ideas.
