The Thief of the Clockwork Lark

One night, in a poor neighborhood in 1830's New York City, a secret is discovered by three teenagers struggling with the weight of the world.
Eiric, a boy who has a mental disability from months in the hospital after an inexplicable incident, plays a bigger part than he would ever have imagined, fulfilling his wildest dreams of simply being a normal boy.
Shiloh, a girl who gets bullied over and over again by the villains of her seemingly wonderful world, finds a way to use her cunning skill to conquer them all.
Giuseppe, a boy whose father died back home in Italy, leaving him and his uncle to scrounge over what's left in America, discovers the power of intelligence and love, learning that knowledge is, in fact, power.
A mechanical dragon that has lied for thirty years in an underground cavern leads them on a quest of love, despair, and grief in this tale which proves it's true that you don't have to be the most powerful person on Earth to have people listen to you.
But one of the items needed to complete this quest is a menacing, evil creature that must be tamed, or it will wreak havoc on the world. So the trio must choose: Fulfill the quest, and learn the secrets to life, love, and grief, or save the lives of countless people?

The guts of this book will be written this month, November, as a NaNoWriMo challenge. If you haven't heard of it, where have you been all this time? Search it up, and be glad.