“Secrets don’t keep once they’re airborne.”On board the Globetrotter, a flight school for aspiring airship crews, Cog and her closest friends gear up for their third year of classes. But when a mysterious transfer student threatens to rock the boat and expose Cog’s hazy past, a global war looms over President Jimmy Carter’s historic press conference, and a jealous love triangle endangers her friendships, their school year promises to be anything but normal.The Steam War brings the steampunk genre to a school setting, in a story that mixes mystery, historical fiction, and science fiction, while also commenting on our own world.