The Brainstormerz: Money Talks (A Graphic Novel)

By Cassidy Dyce

Illustrated by Rashad Doucet

On Sale: May 5, 2026
Page Count: 248 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Ink
ISBN-13: 9780316541084

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For readers of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft comes a fresh, funny kids’ graphic novel series about three problem-solving besties and their humorous money-making schemes.

Electric James, or Lex, as his friends call him, is finally turning ten, and that means one thing: he’s getting a phone! And with the hottest phone on the market—the Apollo XL—he’s sure to become the coolest kid at Roberto Clemente Elementary School. But when his parents break the news that the Apollo XL is way out of their price range, Lex is crushed.

Luckily, he has his best friends DJ and Cass. Together, they’re the Brainstormerz—and they’ve never met a problem they couldn’t solve! All they need to do now is figure out how to raise the money for the phone themselves. How hard could it be?

From the talented trio of New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander, Cassidy Dyce, and Eisner winning cartoonist Rashad Doucet, comes a hilarious and electrifying story about friendship, creativity, and the power of teamwork.

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Kwame Alexander is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over forty books, including his Newbery Medal-winning novel The Crossover; The Undefeated, winner of the Caldecott Medal and Newbery Honor; The Door of No Return; Becoming Muhammed Ali, which he co-wrote with James Patterson; and J vs K, which he co-wrote with Jerry Craft. An Emmy Award-winning Producer and the Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts at Chautauqua, he invites you to visit him at kwamealexander.com and on Instagram and X @kwamealexander.

Cassidy Dyce is an up-and-coming author and founder of Writing Black @ The House which centers and uplifts Black creatives across all artistic mediums. Cassidy lives in Charlottesville, VA. She invites you to visit her as cassidydyce.com

Rashad Doucet is from New Orleans by way of Eunice and Ville Platte, Louisiana. He's been drawing comics since his grandma gave him a pencil and some paper to keep quiet during church. Rashad is an Eisner-winning cartoonist and currently a professor of sequential art at SCAD in Savannah, Georgia, where he can often be found listening to K-pop and watching way too much anime. He's written and illustrated several graphic novels, including Art Club, which was an ALA Best Graphic Novel of 2024. He invites you to visit him at rashaddoucet.artstation.com.

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Kwame Alexander

About the Author

Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, producer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of 40 books, including An American Story, The Door of No Return, Becoming Muhammad Ali (co-authored with James Patterson), Rebound, which was shortlisted for the prestigious UK Carnegie Medal, and The Undefeated, the National Book Award nominee, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Medal-winning picture book illustrated by Kadir Nelson.

Kwame is also the Executive Producer, Showrunner, and Emmy-winning Writer of The Crossover TV series, based on his Newbery-Medal winning novel of the same name, which premiered on Disney+ in April 2023. The series was produced in partnership with LeBron James’ SpringHill Company and Big Sea Entertainment, Kwame’s production company that is dedicated to creating innovative, highly original children’s and family entertainment. Other current projects in development at Big Sea include America’s Next Great Author, the groundbreaking reality television series for writers.

A regular contributor to NPR’s Morning Edition, he regularly shares his passion for literacy, books and the craft of writing there and around the world at events like the Chautauqua Lecture Series, the Edinburgh Book Festival, Aspen Ideas, and the Global Literacy Symposium in Ghana, where he opened the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic in Ghana. Most recently he was appointed the Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts and Writer-in-Residence at the Chautauqua Institution.
His mission is to change the world, one word at a time.

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