Brian Smith

"Get ready to roll with these unlikely friends! Like all peas, Pea loves to roll. So when a no-good strawberry dares him to roll all the way off the farm, he swears he can do it--eazy me-zee! But along the way, a powerful thunderstorm strikes and bounces Pea off course...and right into two unlikely new buds: a bee named Bee who thinks she knows it all, and a bird named Jay who can't figure out how to fly. On their own they may not look like much,...

"Dog Man meets SpongeBob in ... a fast-paced and funny middle grade graphic novel series about the crimefighting duo Clawsome, a lobster, and his partner Stariana, a starfish, as they fight such denizens of the deep as the Catfishburglar, Chowderhead, and the Brain Sturgeon ... Crime doesn't pay in Caper Cove with Officer Clawsome and his partner, Stariana, on the case. Just ask the notorious Catburglarfish--she'll confirm. But when the beloved bakery...

"After Jay is bullied by Pumpkin, three besties Pea, Bee and Jay band together to prove that being big doesn't mean you get to push others around and, discovering Pumpkin has some extra-large issues of her own, must get to the root of the problem"--

"When Pea, Bee, & Jay hear stories of Gramp's youth, they find each yarn to be wilder than the last. He once had a pet dog, was a professional wrestling champ, and even led a jailbreak out of a can of peas...But when Gramps goes missing, it's up to the trio to bring him home."--

"Join four musical instruments in their first year at Band Camp! Pranks and food fights aren't all that is in store for this group of unlikely friends in this new, laugh-out-loud, graphic chapter book series. Cordelia the accordion, Trey the triangle, Kaylee the ukulele, and Zook the kazoo meet when they're assigned to Bunk J--nicknamed "Junk Bunk" by the other instruments. Despite their differences, they'll have to become fast friends as they explore...

Our heroes' hunt for the Surrogate brings them to the usually quiet town of Plumstead, but a rival trio of mages have beaten them to it, and are tearing the place apart! Aren't these jerks supposed to be part of the same team? Their mission is to protect humans from the Surrogate, not terrorize them! It's up to Charris, Trinh, and Ursa to shut their rogue guildmates down!

The three apprentices have arrived at the village they were supposed to rescue, only to find it abandoned! Gripped by madness, the entire town has left for the Silver, a bizarre outpost in the desert where they plan to rebuild the Surrogate's robot army, under the sway of a culty Priestess. Now Trinh, Ursa and Charris are on a stealth mission to track a cultist, deep into Surrogate territory and straight towards the danger! How can they thwart the...

Charris, Trinh, and Ursa have managed to work together long enough to defeat the evil Priestess and her hive-mind robot army, the Surrogate. They journey back to the village of Clifton to reunite with their guild, but once there, they discover that the Priestess may not be defeated after all, and a much larger threat may be looming. A secret from Ursa's past threatens to break the fragile trust between the three mages, but they must overcome their...

Charris, Trinh and Ursa are apprentice mages on their first mission--to venture out of their guild through desolate forests, and respond to the cry for help of a healer from a nearby town. The robotic Surrogate isn't the only danger this forest holds--they also have to contend with marauding magical beasts! But these three are always getting on each other's nerves or in each other's way. How will they ever learn to fight as a team?

This issues finds our mages searching for Ike's lost map--a much-needed edge in the upcoming Surrogate confrontation--while trying to learn to work together as a team. Rosalba has taught Trinh valuable new skills, but Ursa and Charris still can't seem to trust each other. However, when the group runs afoul of a powerful loner deep in the wastelands, they'll have bigger problems on their hands.