The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

If you enjoy learning and having fun at the same time, and you live in Utah, you will enjoy spending a few hours at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium. It has many sections dedicated to a different ecosystem.

There is a section for Utah Wildlife, South America, Asia, and others. A favorite for many is the clear tunnel that visitors can walk through with sea turtles, fish, and sharks swimming around and over you! Families with young children would especially enjoy visiting the Aquarium.

Mysteries of Cove: Embers of Destruction

Mysteries of Cove: Embers of Destruction by J. Scott Savage is the third and final book in the Mysteries of Cover series.

In this book, Kallista, Trenton, and their friends travel to the city of San Francisco, and discover the shocking origin of the dragons that have plagued the planet for hundreds of years. Will they be able to stop the opression of humans, or will dragons destroy or enslave all of humanity? Find out in this exciting conclusion of the Mysteries of Cover series!

Mysteries of Cove: Gears of Revolution

Mysteries of Cove: Gears of Revolution by J. Scott Savage is an exciting book in the Mysteries of Cove series. Treton and Kallista are looking for Kallista's father, Leo Babbage, following the events of the first book, in which they fought a dragon and saved the city of Cove (originally named Discovery).

Clues they find lead them to the city of Seattle, where two factions, the Order of the Beast and the Whipjacks are in a power struggle. Caught in the middle, Trenton and Kallista aren't sure who their allies are, or who their enemies are. Will they find out what happened to Leo Babbage, and why he doesn't seem to be in Seattle as they had expected? Or will their enemies get them first?

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Mysteries of Cove: Gears of Revolution

Mysteries of Cove: Gears of Revolution by J. Scott Savage is the second book in the Mysteries of Cove series. It continues the exciting adventure of Trenton Cole and his friend Kallista Babbage.

Finding clues left in the forest by Kallista's father Leo Babbage, they are directed to the city of Seattle that has clearly been attacked recently by the dragons that are infesting the world. There, they meet two conflicting groups that live in the underground city of Seattle (they can't be outside all the time, because of the dragons) The Order of the Beast, and The Whipjacks. But can Trenton and Kallista trust either groups. And what happened to Kallista's father after he came to Seattle? Read the book and find out! Gears of Revolution was published in 2016.

Hugo: Movie Review

The movie Hugo, based on the book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, is an entertaining, family friendly movie.

The main character is Hugo, a boy who is orphaned, twice, and then takes care of the clock in the train station in Paris. He makes friends with a girl, outwits the train security guard, and meets an old hero. But what about the old automaton that his dad left behind before he died, and why is it significant? Read the book, and watch the movie. Get to know Hugo Cabret! The movie came out in 2011. The book was published in 2007.

Mysteries of Cove Fires of Invention by J. Scott Savage

In Cove, a city sealed inside of a mountain to stay away from the poisonous air that technology and polution have caused, there lives a boy named Trenton Coleman. Trenton Coleman wants to be a mechanic, which is good Cove needs good mechanics. But what Cove doesn't need is curiousity, invention, and people coming up with ways to improve what they already have.

Why? Because technology, the city history books say, is why they had to go inside the mountain to begin with to escape all the pollution and destruction. So, is creativity really a bad thing? Trenton's new friend Kallista says no. And when Trenton's friend Clyde is convicted to a few days of "retraining" just because he drew a picture, Trenton really starts to think about whether or not inventiveness and creativity are really bad things. And as he and Kallista start to follow clues her dad left behind before his mysterious death, Trenton starts to realize that not only is inventing a good thing, but it may be the only thing that can save all of them. Mysteries of Cove by J. Scott Savage is a great book for middle grade readers, and anyone who enjoys dystopian and steam punk.