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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Request for a recommendation.
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In article <vdk2tj$t76$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>I am looking for a book which will interest a 12 year old kid who is 
>>fascinated by things mechanical.
>
>A fiction book or nonfiction?
>
>When I was... younger than 12, might have been about seven... I got my
>father to buy me the Chilton's engine rebuilding annual.  I still have
>it.  I spent months poring over it.
>--scott

L. Sprague deCamp actually wrote a non-fiction book about engines.

Huh, it's actually called _Engines_:

	https://www.amazon.com/Engines-L-Sprague-Camp/dp/B0006BZMX8
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