Sign-In
Cart
Detroit Flow: Born to Build
Paperback
Series: City Flow, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Big dreams start quietly.
Twelve-year-old Nya Monroe doesn't think anyone's paying much attention. She listens more than she talks. She sketches more than she speaks. But everything starts to shift the day she imagines her own future on wheels-and designs it by hand.
With a growing love for cars, design, and her hometown streets, Nya begins sketching the Flowmobile-a car that blends Detroit's history with its future. Quiet afternoons become bursts of ideas. Cardboard models rise from kitchen tables. And a voice that once lived only in pencil lines starts to find the courage to be seen.
As Nya's vision grows, so does the pressure: rejection, self-doubt, and second guesses. Now she must decide: Will she keep building the dream in her head-or put it on the road for the world to see?
Detroit Flow is a story full of engines, sketches, rhythm, and soul-perfect for fans of Front Desk, Ways to Make Sunshine, and Miles Morales: Shock Waves. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Detroit, this illustrated middle grade novel celebrates the spirit of reinvention, resilience, and riding in your own lane.
Detroit Flow is the third book in a new series spotlighting kids with bold voices from cities across the country. Each book follows a different character-until their stories start to weave together in unexpected and inspiring ways.
Age Level: 9-12
Grade Level: 4-7
Perfect for: Kids who love cars, sketching, building, inventing, or stories about quiet dreams turning into loud futures.
What readers will discover:
Themes of creativity, perseverance, community pride, and confidence make Detroit Flow a meaningful read for classrooms and book clubs-or for any reader who believes powerful journeys often start with a pencil and an idea.
Also from
Lilien, Gregory E.
Also in
Chapter Books
Dragon Tales (a Friend for Dragon, Dragon Gets By, and Dragon's Fat Cat): From the Creator of Dog Man
Pilkey, Dav
Hardcover
Battle of the Super Rabbit Boys!: A Branches Book (Press Start! #18): Volume 18
Flintham, Thomas
Paperback
Rainbow Magic Rainbow Fairies #1: Ruby the Red Fairy Graphic Novel
Turner, Erika
Meadows, Daisy
Paperback
Rainbow Magic Rainbow Fairies #2: Amber the Orange Fairy Graphic Novel
Neus, Nora
Meadows, Daisy
Paperback
Magic Tree House Books 5-8 Boxed Set: Night of the Ninjas; Afternoon on the Amazon; Sunset of the Sabertooth; Midnight on the Moon
Osborne, Mary Pope
Paperback
Battle of the Super Rabbit Boys!: A Branches Book (Press Start! #18): Volume 18
Flintham, Thomas
Hardcover
Don't Eat the Birthday Boy! (the Unlikely Aventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy Book #2): An Illustrated Chapter Book
Barba Higuera, Donna
Hardcover
The Mystery of the Dinosaur Fossil (Ivy and Bearlock Holmes Book 2): 15 Puzzles for Sleuths to Solve Volume 2
Litten, Kristyna
Hardcover
The Unlikely Aventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy (the Unlikely Aventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy Book #1): An Illustrated Chapter Book
Barba Higuera, Donna
Hardcover
Team Unihorn and Woolly #4: Creatures from the Skull Cave: A Graphic Novel
Frederick-Frost, Alexis
Hardcover