An Early Middle Grade Informational Fiction / Mystery Graphic Novel Series with STEAM Themes
Illustrated by Sarah E Steinberg
Armed with curious minds and a magnifying glass, sibling sleuths Nicki and Ricky Goddard investigate the natural mysteries that populate their suburban world - mysteries only they can solve!
Thanks to a successful Crowdfundr campaign, our Baffling Birds! trilogy and Nicki and Ricky Science Workbook are now available to order as e-books, paperbacks, and in hardcover!
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And be sure to stay tuned for:
The Adventures of Nicki and Ricky, Vol. 2: Mysterious Monsters!
The Adventures of Nicki and Ricky, Vol. 3: Living Fossils!
A Nature Story Picture Book with STEAM Themes
Full Manuscript!
On a sunny Spring weekend, seven-year-old Aster and her father set out to hunt the rare Lady Slipper Orchid. As they hike through forest and meadow, marsh and beach, Aster sketches the flowers they find while her father takes photographs. But tracking a rare wild orchid takes more than sharp eyes.
Inspired by a real event, this story features an easy-to-emulate approach to scientific observation: the shared family activity of a no-picking wildflower hunt!
Wildflower Hunt
A Middle Grade Fantasy Graphic Novel / Cookbook, Stuffed with Real Recipes!
Full Manuscript!
Eleven-year-old Acelyn “Ace” Baxter yearns to lead her team, the ABC Bakers, to baking fame and glory! But when her drive to be the best of the best prompts her to make a deal with a mischievous Pooka, Ace finds she’s bitten off more than she can chew!
Character Drawings and Sample Art by Young Huer
Special Note: To celebrate National Bake Cookies Day (December 18), the Kids Comics Unite Anthology team is featuring one of my original recipes from this story:
Ace Baxter’s Cherry Chocolate Chunk Cookies!
Enjoy! :)
The ABC Bakers: Pooka Mischief!
A Middle Grade Fantasy Graphic Novel / Cookbook, Stuffed with Real Recipes!
Robbyn “Bobbi” Baxter longs to shed her shy image before seventh grade, but when her best efforts fizzle and splat, she turns to Elwood the Pooka for help, drawing herself and her baking team into an Otherworldly adventure they may not be able to escape!
Character Drawings by Young Huer
The ABC Bakers: Bakers in Annwn!
A Middle Grade Fantasy Graphic Novel / Cookbook, Stuffed with Real Recipes!
Sick of always being the ‘responsible’ kid in her family, Catrina “Cat” Zoet yearns to strike out on her own, until her friend Elwood the Pooka returns to Earth with a Faerie mentor whose malicious magic threatens to split the ABC Bakers up for good!
Character Drawings by Young Huer
The ABC Bakers: Going Viral!
A Middle Grade Novel - Contemporary Fantasy, Coming of Age, Family
Twelve-year-old math prodigy Mina Myers feels her foster mother is prepping and packaging her for a future she doesn’t want. Convinced she’ll die young from a hereditary illness, Mina dodges all attachments - until she discovers her new foster brother is actually a genie in disguise! Can clever Mina con the secretive genie into granting her perfect wish?
Inspired by my prize-winning short story, JUST A WISH is a contemporary fantasy with roots in deeper magic about a bright loner with a rich imagination who’d rather live in her head than connect with the real people all around her.
Just A Wish
A Middle Grade Graphic Novel Biography
In early twentieth-century Manhattan, young Harpo Marx must join his gifted brothers on stage to help support his family. In his search to find a voice uniquely his own, he’ll have to harness his imagination, perseverance and fortitude in this harp-tastic celebration of sound and soul.
Harpo’s Voice
A YA Memoir / Comedy / Slice of Life Graphic Novel. Neurodiversity Content, Own Voices
Andrea Natalie Rhae has passed through high school like a ghost. Now in her senior year, autistic Andi wants only to finish her schoolwork and move on to college. Instead, her social cluelessness will lead to a host of unexpected challenges as teachers and fellow students strive to get oblivious Andi involved in a side of school life she never knew was there.
A lightly fictionalized comedy of misunderstandings based on my own misadventures as an autistic high school student.
Memoirs of a High School Ghost
A Middle Grade Novel and/or Graphic Novel - Mystery, Science Fiction, Contemporary Fantasy
With the help of mysterious teen sleuth Amalthea Jones, ten-year-old Mary O’Reilly discovers the ‘ghost’ haunting her family’s summer home is a living child, ensnared in the Boundary between two worlds.
Amalthea Jones and the Haunting of Mary O’Reilly
A YA Slice of Life / Coming of Age / STEM Graphic Novel. Neurodiversity Content, Own Voices.
While developing her science project on the polar ice caps, an autistic teen leans into her passion for figure skating to overcome a profound crisis of confidence and identity.
Ice Girl
A YA Fantasy / Coming of Age Graphic Novel. Neurodiversity Content, Own Voices. Solarpunk / Steampunk / Hopepunk Aesthetic.
Since transforming into a ‘real boy,’ Pinocchio has been gratefully living his ‘happily ever after’: tending to his aging father Geppetto, keeping Geppetto’s struggling shop open, and working odd jobs to help his neighbors. But Geppetto always wanted more for his beloved son. Eager to fulfill his father’s dreams, Pinocchio cuts all strings with his old life and sets out to climb the cruel Ladder to Success. But will his honest naïveté set him up for a shattering fall? A coming-of-age story illustrating the challenges of finding and following your own path, inspired by Carlo Collodi’s 1883 classic, The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Heartstrings
A YA Graphic Novel. Neurodiversity Content, Own Voices.
A present-day adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 classic Far from the Madding Crowd reimagined in a high school setting with a neurodiverse central character.
Boldwood
An Upper Middle Grade Novel and/or Graphic Novel. Neurodiversity Content, Own Voices.
Lukas Rozzi, a shy twelve-year-old on the autistic spectrum, has a tough time processing transitions and sudden change. But, when he discovers a local witch legend is not only true, but deadly, Lukas will brave his deepest fears to set the timeline right – even if it means betraying his best friend.
Spanning the present, the future, and parallel worlds, THE STAIRWAY sets autistic Lukas on his own hero’s journey as he learns to accept and appreciate the inevitability of change: both the good and the bad.
NOTE: This story is extra-twisty with lots of layers to peel away and climb around in. Following the premise that magic is science that hasn’t been explained yet, the ‘witches’ in the colonial legend are not actually witches, and any ‘magic’ in this story has roots in real physics!
The Stairway
Short Comics and Other Experiments!
Ghosts of the Sea
A 6-page comic, to appear in the upcoming Kids Comics Studio Anthology
Illustrated by Jade Vaughan
A strange desert encounter whisks a girl and her dog back in time to tour the Precambrian Sea.
A 9-page comic plus an Original Recipe, published in the anthology Comics From The Kitchen!
Illustrated by Sarah E Steinberg
Melony always wished for a real, home baked birthday cake, but her birthday’s in the middle of summer! Forbidden to heat up the house with the oven and dreading another impersonal ice cream cake, Melony vows this year she’ll create the no-bake layer cake of her dreams!
Features my original recipe for No-Bake Cannoli-Cream Layer Cake, loaded with fresh fruit!
