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by Chanté Timothy (Author)
A Booklist Top 10 Debut Graphic Novel for Youth 2025
Winner of a Good Housekeeping 2025 Kids' Book Award
Venture into Nova's secret underground lab-- and witness a gum monster come to life! A full-color, action-packed graphic novel about a young Black girl with a love for science and enough determination and confidence to fix the world.
Nova is horrified when she learns about the world's plastic problem and the trash islands floating in the ocean. Good thing she has a super-secret lab in her basement. No problem is too big for SUPA NOVA or for SCIENCE! But things go spectacularly awry when she creates a plastic-eating monster who won't stop eating and GROWING! Will Supa Nova be able to save the day--and the planet?
Author Biography
Chanté Timothy is an illustrator who loves experimenting with movement, vibrant colour, character design and storytelling. Drawing for as long as she can remember, she's always been the kid who asked for paper and pen to entertain herself instead of playing with toys. Chanté is a Pathways into Children's Publishing 2019 - 2021 Alumni. She is the illustrator of a number of non-fiction books and has previously published picture books with Tola Okogwu for Simon & Schuster Children's Books. Chanté featured in Dapo Adeola's Hey You! which won Children's Illustrated Book of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards.
