A Life Invented

By Lori Alden Holuta

Gerard Liddle was one of Steamkettle Bay's most well-known inventors. The creator of My Liddle Peony, Mommy's Liddle Helper, and the Modest Liddle Bloomer-guards, to name only a few of his many inventions, is first encountered through the memories of his wife, Letitica Liddle, in "The Flight to Brassbright".

But years earlier, in 1865, Gerard was a young kid growing up in the idyllic town of Quartz Corners, and already toying around with his very first inventions. Learn more about this prolific inventor's early days through four amazing inventive adventures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lori Alden Holuta
• Release date: Dec 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005073091

Lori Alden Holuta

Lori Alden Holuta lives between the cornfields of mid-Michigan, where she grows vegetables, teas, and herbs, when she’s not playing games with a cat named Chives. She’s fond of activities from the past, including canning and preserving, crocheting, reading in the dark, and cooking.

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A Life Invented

Brassbright Kids, Book 3

Lori Alden Holuta

Edited by Ken Holuta

Cover Art by Serene Spence

Copyright 2016 Lori Alden Holuta

Published by Lori Alden Holuta

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Table of Contents

Quartz Corners

Cuckoo

Scrapheap Treasures

A Cat-Astrophe

Trebuchet

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"Where do grand inventors come from?

Why, small inventors, of course."

Quartz Corners

Quartz Corners, Industralia—Spring, 1865

Eleven-year-old Cora Addle clutched a handful of papers, as she stood primly at attention at the front of the classroom. She faced a dozen rows of desks that filled the single room of the Quartz Corners Schoolhouse, with the youngest children sitting quietly up front, while the older kids chattered and fidgeted in their seats towards the back. Cora cleared her throat loudly and stomped her foot impatiently to get her classmates attention.

Manners, Cora, murmured Missus Barnesworthy, the Schoolmarm. And you too, Alfred. Don’t think I can’t see that peashooter in your shirt pocket. One shot and you’ll be washing windows after school. Again.

Alfred slunk down in his seat as the boys around him snickered. Cora cleared her throat again—more demurely this time—and began to recite.

A History Of Quartz Corners, by Cora Addle, the fifth grader announced proudly. "The climate was generally mild in the little valley in the foothills of the Rust Mountains, where Clarence Copperbottom paused one day during his geological explorations. Looking at the river that flowed through the lush valley, and then gazing up at the mountain peaks not far off, he turned to Clarabelle, his faithful donkey, and exclaimed with gusto, ‘There’s more than enough rocks around here to keep me happy for the