Welcome to Save the World Kids

STEM (Science – Technology – Engineering – Math) novels that inspire creativity in young adults to get involved and do great things, whether it is through science, technology, engineering, or math.

Novels for creating a passion for studying fields that make a difference.

These novels focus on current topics, issues, and technologies that young adults encounter as they start their studies and careers. Test

Coral Reefs – Purchase

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Explore the urgent reality of climate change in ‘Coral Reefs.’ Join Diane and Bronwyn on a quest to prove the dire effects of global warming as they journey through Florida’s waters and encounter experts in their mission for change.

OREOs & Milk – Purchase

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Explore the development of a high-tech underwater drone by middle school kids teamed with college students who will explore underwater caves and sunken shipwrecks in ‘OREOS & Milk.’ Join Diane, Dean, and Thomas using the autonomous underwater drone to help capture a drug ring running cocaine from the Bahamas to Florida.

Hurricane Dorian and the FEMA House – Purchase

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Join middle school kids in a thrilling adventure, first surviving Category 5 Hurricane Dorian and then teaming up with other friends and a college student to design, develop, build, and test an automatically deployable house to save lives. A house that FEMA can use throughout most areas of the world to aid people without homes after their houses have been destroyed by climate or manmade events. Dive into the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) as Diane, Bronwyn, Dean, and Thomas use what they have learned in earlier adventures to help save the world while overcoming a killer that tracks them across Puerto Rico and Florida.  

Treasure Trove! – Purchase

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Join high school kids in a thrilling adventure, first searching for a treasure ship from the 1622 Spanish Plate Fleet with a professional underwater archaeologist and then rescuing an enslaved girl. Dive into the world of STEM as Diane, Bronwyn, and Zack learn and use the devices that underwater archaeologists deploy in the search and recovery of shipwreck artifacts. See how they use what they have learned in earlier adventures to help save the world, overcoming a slaver who tracks them through the Florida Keys and across Florida.  

Radioactive! – Purchase

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Join Diane and Bronwyn, two high school kids, in a thrilling adventure to stop a ruthless group of terrorists from contaminating New York City with radiation during the New Year’s Eve celebration. Dive into the world of STEM as Diane and Bronwyn use what they have learned in earlier adventures to help save the world while overcoming hardships young adults should not have to endure

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Shipwrecked! – Purchase

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For graduate student Jolie, summer on a research cruise in the Florida Keys was supposed to be about sunshine, diving, and escaping the chaos of everyday life. But everything changes when they bring up an old ship’s battery from an uncharted shipwreck that they discover while exploring the coral reefs. What begins as a thrilling discovery alongside two ocean engineering professors from the Florida Institute of Technology quickly turns into something far more dangerous.

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Students working on an underwater crawler
Students surveying the WindJammer Wreck

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