In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, authors M.M. Downing and S.J. Waugh discuss their new middle grade series, The Adventures of the Flash Gang. This series centers around an eleven-year-old boy named Lewis Carter who is orphaned and left to fend for himself during the Great Depression in 1930’s Pittsburgh. But Lewis, unlike other orphans, has some physical challenges that make it difficult for him to pull off the same stunts as the others. So, Lewis resorts to science to help him in his plight. He becomes so successful that people assume there is an entire gang at work. Pretty soon, Lewis becomes the most notorious food thief in all of Pittsburgh. By the way, he foils a Nazi plot as well. Episode One: Exploding Experiment and Episode Two: Treasonous Tycoon are available now. In this episode, I’ll chat with Melanie and Sandra about their writing journey, how their initial research for this book led them to decide on Pittsburgh as their setting, and why it was important for them to write this series for the middle grade audience.
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