Superhero Kids is nineteen true stories about twenty-one real kids who found something worth doing and did it. Meet a fourteen-year-old in Northglenn, Colorado, who gentles wild mustangs; a sixteen-year-old in Boulder who has raised $370,000 for rare-disease research one batch of cookies at a time; a teenager who built an app so deaf people would know when an alarm was going off. They range in age from twelve to seventeen. None of them is a prodigy. Every one of them is a kid with homework and chores and bad days who saw a problem close enough to touch and decided it was theirs to work on.
The cover is Leslie Lumeh’s, the Liberian artist whose pen-and-ink portraits run through the whole book, each one drawn from the young person’s own photograph. The kids you see here are real, and their stories are inside.
Superhero Kids publishes November 3, 2026, from Ardea Herodias Books, our imprint for young readers. This is a book for readers in grades 5 through 8, and for the teachers, librarians, and parents who know a kid with an idea.
Pre-orders at 25% off open today at panhandlecreek.com—$14.99 hardcover, $9.99 paperback, through launch day—along with classroom and library sets for schools. Amazon, Bookshop.org, and bookstore pre-orders open in mid-October.
Micaela Myers will be in Colorado for launch week: a morning reading at the Red Feather Lakes Community Library on Saturday, November 7, and the launch party that afternoon at Inkberry Books in Niwot, where two of the Superhero Kids will join her. Details on the events calendar.