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The Mark Of The Dragonfly was like my all time favorite book in sixth grade and was really good every time I read it after. BUT LIKE NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT IT!!! I was BLESSED to find that book on my class bookshelf, or I wouldn’t known about the world of Solace. The book is rated for like ages 9+ I think so it’s a kid’s book but not like kids’ kids’ book. All ages I guess.

It revolves around this girl Piper (13) who lives in a pretty complex world where there are meteor showers that bring items from other worlds. She lives in the metros kingdom (a big power), in a town right next to one of the many scrap fields where the meteors primarily fall, and the town makes its living on finding, fixing, and selling those items for scientists and stuff. The scrap towns are really poor and Piper dreams of one day leaving to go to the big cities. She’s a machinist, taught by her late father, and she has a knack for fixing up machines pretty dang perfectly.

One day, during a meteor storm that she is NOT supposed to be in, a caravan is wrecked in the fields and Piper has to nurse the surviving passenger, an eleven year old girl (Anna), back to consciousness. But when she wakes up, she’s a really strange person. Also, she has the mark of the dragonfly, making her a protected person from the dragonfly territories (another big power).

Someone’s after Anna who claims to be her father, but Anna’s scared of him. (also Anna doesn’t remember anything about her life). They secretly board the 401, a big old train, and have to pretend to be important people so the skeptical chief of security, a boy of about thirteen called Gee, doesn’t chuck them off the train. The train’s main workers who are in charge are Jane Steel and Trimble.

They are trying to get Anna to wherever her home could be, and Piper wants a reward, if she’ll get it, for helping her. They grow to be like sisters, and this notion slowly goes away. The characters and the story and the action and the world — all really cool!

https://www.forzabikes.co.nz/blog/696481