3 KIDS &
1 ALIEN
Four minds. One way forward.
For young readers AND adults who heard "just focus" a lot growing up
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For young readers AND adults who heard "just focus" a lot growing up
Buy on AmazonImagine a world where every thought must be a straight line.
Meet Nuro. On his home planet, everyone thinks in straight lines. A to B to C. But Nuro's thoughts go everywhere at once—connecting things nobody else sees, jumping before he finishes, noticing patterns that don't seem to exist. They call it "tangled." They want to fix it. So Nuro does the only thing that makes sense: he steals a shuttle and crash-lands in someone's tomato garden.
On the planet Lineara, Nuro faces the "Straightening Program"—a procedure that erases the tangled connections in his mind. People come out quieter. They smile, but not at the same things. Some forget they ever loved music.
It's not help. It's erasure.
So Nuro runs. He finds Earth—listed in old records as "chaotic but functional"—and crash-lands in the backyard of three kids on Maple Street.
One sees the big picture. One makes the plans. One catches the details. And Nuro? He connects it all.
Four minds.
One way forward.
An alien with a "thought-patch" on his forehead that glows and swirls with every connection his brain makes. On Lineara, anything other than a neat straight line is a malfunction. What would it be like on Earth?
Tangled thinker. Pattern-spotter. Runaway.
The first kid to find Nuro in the crater. Guitar phase. Robotics phase. Astronomy phase. His closet is a museum of abandoned hobbies. But he's the first person to look at Nuro's swirling thoughts and say: "Cool. What does it do?"
Curious. Enthusiastic. Unafraid of weird.
Kai's neighbor. Color-coded notebooks. Numbered lists. She likes things to make sense—and Nuro doesn't make sense. Not yet, anyway.
Organized. Skeptical.
Maya's younger brother. Quiet. Careful. Carries a graph-paper notebook everywhere and draws what he sees. Notices things other people walk right past.
Observer. Detail-catcher.
What if the things that make you "difficult"
could also make you brilliant?
This isn't a book that tells kids their brain is a superpower. It's a book that shows them it's okay to think differently—and that maybe, just maybe, different brains working together can do things no single brain can do alone.
This book won't fix anything. It won't provide strategies or techniques or worksheets.
What it will do is show them a character whose brain works like theirs—and who finds friends who learn to work with that brain instead of against it.
Sometimes, that's more valuable than any intervention: knowing you're not alone, and that your way of thinking has a place in the world.
"On Lineara, tangled thoughts were considered a malfunction. Dangerous, even. Something to be corrected before it spread. But watching his thought-patch light up in the evening air, Nuro wondered: what if tangled wasn't wrong? What if it was just... different?"
3 Kids & 1 Alien is the first book in the NURO series—middle-grade adventures exploring how different kinds of minds can work together.
Built on the same philosophy as ADHD Assets: understanding how your brain actually works, not how everyone says it should.
No superpowers. No magic cures. Just honest stories about thinking differently—and finding your people.