Welcome to Heroes A²Z Previews!
Here you will meet Abigail, Andrew, and Baby Zoe, three superhero kids who fight crime before bedtime. The heroes live in Traverse City, MI (that’s on the tip of your pinky finger for you non-Michigan residents), but they travel all around the state, America, and the word battling crime wherever they are needed. These keen kids put the super in superheroes!
Heroes A²Z are chapter books for middle elementary school readers. They are most popular among 2nd – 4th graders, and are written at a 3.5 reading level. Because the books have drawings on EVERY page, younger readers can follow along and enjoy the stories. The books make great real-alouds.
#1: Alien Ice Cream
#2: Bowling Over Halloween
#3: Cherry Bomb Squad
#4: Digging For Dinos
#5: Easter Egg Haunt
#6: Fowl Mouthwash
#7: Guitar Rocket Star
#8: Holiday Holdup
#9: Ivy League All-Stars
#10: Joey Down Under
#11: Kung Fu Kitties
#12: Lost Puppy Love
#13: Monkey Monster Truck
by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this first adventure, the heroes try to keep their cool on the hottest day of the year. Soon, however, they discover that not all ice cream is created equal. Some is created by aliens who have plans to take over the world.
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, the heroes look forward to trick-or-treating on Halloween. Little to they know that the trick will be on them, and it will take more than a treat to defeat the fudge monster bowling over their town.
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, a family visit to Cherry Olde Orchard becomes a waking, walking nightmare. The trees pick up root and start laying down the lumber. If that’s not enough, their cherry bombs will flatten anythingin their path. Traverse City and the National Cherry Festival will never be the same.
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, a trip to the lake turns into anything but a day at the beach. Digging is usually for making sand castles, but our heroes have other plans. They dig so deep that they discover something terrifying and better off buried. Worse, it’s got a bone to pick with them, several hundred, actually.
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, the heroes discover more than candy in their Easter baskets. Ghosts haunt the library’s egg hunt. Chocolate bunnies bare their teeth and bite back. Talk about a few bad eggs! Saving Easter has never been such a scramble.
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, humans beware. Chicken fever is spreading fast. Robotic chickens have come home to roost, and the city of Frankenmuth has gone to the birds. It’s up to Heroes A2Z to hatch a rescue before everyone flies the coop.
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, a battle of the bands turns into a real war. It’s rock versus roll as mullets try to steal the show. One wrong note, and everything could be out of tune.
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, Christmas is in danger. Candy bandits cheat down chimneys looking to poach presents placed under the tree. If the heroes don’t wrap up the bandits tight, there won’t even be coal in their stockings on Christmas morn!
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, it’s time to play ball. The heroes batter up against the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. First it’s one up and then everybody down. The Sprouts players sprout into pinch-hitting plants. This game is going into extra innings.
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, the Land Down Under has come to Mackinac Island. Welcome to Australian Days! Meet kangaroos, koalas, and a kid named Joey who puts the boom in boomerang.
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by David Anthony and Charles David Clasman
In this adventure, things get hairy. Famous felines Chuck Morris, Moose Lee, and Lucy Mew prowl into town to promote a new kung fu dojo. But when all the milk goes missing, the heroes know that Traverse City hasn’t gone to the dogs.
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by David Anthony and Charles David
In this adventure, it’s bark vs. bite when one lost puppy finds all kinds of trouble. With a sip of his Love Potion #K9, people become pets and every dog has its day. Will the heroes be collared and sent to the doghouse?
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by David Anthony and Charles David
In this adventure, the heroes let their inner apes escape. A monster truck rally turns into a regular barrel of monkeys. Abigail, Andrew, and Baby Zoe had better peel out before everyone goes bananas.
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I am a BIG fan of your work. I sat in the front row at your last GREEN ACERS,I was the small light haired boy not the tall one next to me .I havent read them but I really want to read monkey monster truck,lost puppy love,and kung fu kittys. sincerly your friend.by
Hi, Owen! Thanks for writing. Green Acres is an awesome school! We visit so often, how could we not love it? After you read Monkey Monster Truck and the rest, let us know what you think. Real heroes read!