Book One: Bending Time, The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder

When ten-year-old genius Emery Jones accidentally sends school bully Chippy Payne 190 years back in time, he’s not sure he can reverse the process — or even if he wants to. Chippy, his crew of bullies, their teacher, and even Emery’s folks don’t seem to understand Emery’s genius. Will Emery Jones and his best friend Gabby Sykes risk travelling to the Triassic Period to rescue a bully like Chippy? With a kindly professor and a rapping robot on their team, you never know what might happen…

isbn 978-1633981003, 93 pages, $14

About the Emery Jones series:

National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson teams up with his daughter, multimedia artist and poet Elisheba Johnson, to entertain and inspire young people of color interested in STEM/STEAM fields with The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder. Young Emery Jones is a misfit genius whose curiosity and creativity get him into all kinds of unpredictable misadventures, each one hinging on a fundamental principle of science. Readers follow Emery and his best friend Gabby through time, and through the wild ride of adolescence, and along the way learn about evolution, time travel, ingenuity, empathy, and the unparalleled power of friendship. A series of groundbreaking stories that will decrease the bullying of young people of color interested in these subjects as two new heroes, Emery Jones and Gabby, blaze a trail into a life in science, technology, engineering, art, or math.