Award-Winning Eco-Adventure Series

Adventure for young readers who want to help change the future.

Chronicles of G.A.I.A. is an award-winning speculative fiction series for young readers, blending time travel, ecological mystery, future technologies, and young heroes learning to act with courage in a changing world.

For readers who love animals, secret schools, climate mysteries, friendship, and high-stakes missions with real-world meaning.

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Recognized for imaginative, future-facing environmental storytelling

NYC Big Book Award Winner · Middle Grade
PenCraft Award Winner · Grades 4–6
Literary Titan Gold Gold Book Award
Green Earth Book Award 2025 Long List · Norbu’s Secret

Hopeful climate fiction that builds agency rather than despair.

The series follows Lexa Andromeda and her friends as they uncover hidden threats, encounter future technologies, and face ecological missions that ask them to become braver, wiser, and more connected to the living world.

Written for young readers and the adults who care about them, Chronicles of G.A.I.A. turns climate concern into imagination, courage, and meaningful action.

Two books. One unfolding mission.

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Book One

Future Hack

Lexa Andromeda, a dream-traveling dog, a time-traveling cat, and a mysterious teen named Norbu uncover a sinister plot inside Thistleton Academy.

A fast-moving sci-fi adventure about friendship, grief, corporate greed, and the power of young people to protect the future.

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Book Two

Norbu’s Secret

The adventure moves deeper into the rainforest, where Lexa and friends confront vanishing jaguars, hidden dangers, and the wisdom of Amazonian youths.

A gripping sequel about ecological courage, moral choice, and the fragile future of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems.

For kids, parents, educators, and librarians

For young readers

Adventure, mystery, animals, time travel, secret schools, and friends working together to solve problems larger than themselves.

For parents

Hopeful climate fiction that takes young readers seriously, without turning ecological concern into helplessness or doom.

For educators

A storyworld for discussing ecoliteracy, anticipatory thinking, environmental stewardship, student agency, and future-facing action.

Young heroes, future technologies, and ecological missions

Lexa

The young agent

A brave, compassionate protagonist learning that grief, courage, and action can reshape the future.

Norbu

The mystery

A time-traveling teen whose secrets open portals into hidden knowledge, future danger, and ecological responsibility.

G.A.I.A.

The mission

A future-facing storyworld where young people are called to protect the Earth through imagination and collective action.

Pasha & Zara

The animal guides

A time-traveling cat and dream-traveling dog bring wit, wonder, and more-than-human companionship into the adventure.

What reviewers are saying

Publishers Weekly

“Messaging around the importance of environmental education and individual activism are heartening.”

Publishers Weekly
Kirkus Reviews

“A fast-paced and engaging introduction to SF and environmental activism.”

Kirkus Reviews
Literary Titan

“A compelling exploration of environmental conservation’s complexities, underscored by the importance of creativity and perseverance.”

Literary Titan

Story as a doorway into ecoliteracy and futures thinking

Future Hack takes place at Thistleton Academy, a former green school overtaken by a nefarious corporation. The series creates an accessible entry point for conversations about ecoliteracy, anticipatory thinking, environmental stewardship, and student agency.

  • Use the story to introduce environmental literacy and climate imagination.
  • Pair reading with discussions about technology, corporations, and responsibility.
  • Invite students to imagine themselves as future-facing change makers.

Available in stores and online

Begin with Future Hack, then continue the adventure with Norbu’s Secret. Books are available through major retailers and independent booksellers.

Start the adventure with Future Hack.

Join Lexa, Norbu, Pasha, Zara, and the young agents of G.A.I.A. in a storyworld where imagination becomes courage and courage becomes action.