G471 E-Reading Book Review of Clever Mill Horse by Jodi Lew-Smith
Name of Book: The Clever Mill Horse Author: Jodi Lew Smith ISBN: 9780991341207 Publisher: Caspian Press Type of book: 1810, 1800s, secrets, future, treatment, fake currency, patent, travel, death, Native Americans, relationships, family, siblings, mother/daughter relationships, female and male roles, engineering Year it was published: 2014 Summary: ***Winner of the 2014 James River Writers Indie Novel Contest*** A young woman’s gift could weave together the fabric of a nation... 1810, upstate New York. 21-year-old Ella Kenyon is happiest gliding through the thick woods around her small frontier town, knife in hand, her sharp eyes tracking game. A gift for engineering is in her blood, but she would gladly trade it for more time in the forest. If only her grandfather's dying wish hadn't trapped her into a fight she never wanted: for a flax-milling machine that could rescue both her family and her struggling town. Perhaps making flax—which grows in the North...