Book Two: The Hard Problem, The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder

It’s the first day of middle school and nothing’s going right for poet Gabby Sykes. She’s in a bad mood, her hearing aid is missing, she’s not allowed to eat cheese anymore for the rest of her life, and her best friend, scientific whiz kid Emery Jones, is already showing off. But things go from bad to worse when Emery’s crush on a new student distracts him from dual threats to the entire world—self-replicating robots with minds of their own, and aliens intent on enslaving humankind. It’s up to Gabby to snap Emery out of it, and fast. Together they team up with friendly robot Cal and former bully Chippy Payne to harness the powers of science—But will they be able to save Redd Foxx Middle School, and all of humanity, from destruction?

isbn 978-1633981027, 103 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.