Writer Susan Stoderl
creating stories with soul
|Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series|
SOPHIA OF THE BRIGHT RED SNEAKERS SERIES
A Middle-Grade Detective Series for Ages 8-12 Years.
Mission 1: All in a Day's Work
Being brilliant eleven-year-olds in a competitive Eighth Grade Honors Class is a minute-by-minute challenge. After a Central Park zookeeper is the victim of a suspicious hit-and-run accident, Super Sleuths Sophia MacGregor and Pedro Gonzalez investigate the zookeeper’s questionable replacement with the help of their telepathic animal friends. When they uncover a plot by Russian poachers to abduct Jack the Polar Bear, instead of battling middle school snobs and bullies, they find themselves targeted by the Russian mob!
Now in eBook, paperback, & audiobook.
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Middle-Grade Detective Series
Multicultural Books for Kids
New York City for Kids Book
Middle-Grade School Life
Middle-Grade Amateur Sleuths
Middle-Grade Mystery Series
Magical Realism
Make Your Own Family
Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors
(Expected in the Spring of 2025)
Enslaved twins Jeb and Liza, with their father Elijah Kingman, embark on a perilous journey on the Maritime Underground Railroad from Edenton, NC. They navigate the treacherous Great Dismal Swamp, facing snakes, mosquitoes, and relentless slavers. During a massive electrical storm, a rift in time and space transports them to 2022, where they land in the Central Park Zoo, surprising Sophia, Pedro, and their animal friends. The “Twins Forever Free” mission must save them from the Cru Crew’s bullying and threats of exposure when they find a slave notice with pictures of Jeb and Liza.
Middle-Grade Time Travel
TimeTravel Kids Book
Childrens Book on Salvery
Books About Fugitive Slaves
Middle-Grade Detective Series
New York City for Kids Book
Multicultural Books for Kids
New York City History for Kids
Middle-Grade School Life
Mission 3: A Different World
(Expected in the Spring of 2026)
While at a book and pizza event at the Jefferson Market Library, amateur sleuths Pedro and Sophia, joined by their new assistants, Jeb and Liza, are about to become part of a dark tale. While leaving, Pedro stumbles against a secret panel that opens into a dusty hallway. A steel door is at the end. When they force it open, they find themselves in the sweltering Lower East Side in August 1909. Immigrants, child labor, sweatshops, and looming strikes haunt the inhabitants. The hall behind them no longer exists.
Jefferson Market Library was once the notorious Jefferson Market Courthouse. The Night Court judges were bribed by the shirtwaist manufacturers against the strikers. Their corruption sent hundreds to Blackwell’s Island Prison. Tragic events culminated in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of March 25, 1911.
Amateur sleuths Sophia and Pedro, now joined by their new associates, Jeb and Liza, understand their obligation to investigate and defend what is right.
Jefferson Market,
Courthouse, and Prison
Blackwell's Prison,
Asylum. and Workhouse
Middle-Grade Time Travel
TimeTravel Kids Book
Middle-Grade Historical Fiction
Books About Fugitive Slaves
Middle-Grade Detective Series
New York City for Kids Book
Multicultural Books for Kids
New York City History for Kids
Middle-Grade School Life
Shirtwaist Factory Fire
