The Curious Clevers

by Kelley Coleman


The Curious Clevers takes Pilot Clever on a fantastical journey to find his place in the world in light of the overwhelming realization that he is not in fact the chosen one. He's the other one. 


BOOK 1 follows Pilot, his family, and his unlikely friends on their adventure into The Above. Pilot begins to question his family's peculiar life, and eventually learns that he is not in fact the special one - all along, it has been his brother Wynn. And there is nothing Pilot can do to prevent the heartbreaking and inevitable course of events linked to Wynn's destiny.


BOOK 2 follows Pilot's determined search across worlds to find his lost brother, even though no one is certain if Wynn can ever be found. 


BOOK 3 reunites the Clever family, who must finally stand in their truth: that Wynn is not like everyone else, that their family is like no other, and that their destiny cannot be outrun. There are worlds to save and demons to battle, all while navigating the world as a family uncertain how to exist in a world (worlds) where they must learn how to belong. 



Book 1


Pilot Clever, nearly 13, has convinced himself that his family’s constant moving, their lack of interaction with other children, and his disproportionate interest in aerial cartography are perfectly normal. He proudly looks out for his younger brother Wynn and never questions: 


     1) The Clever family’s string of 19 remote, ramshackle houses.
     2) His father’s enigmatic employment.
     3) His mother’s peculiar preoccupation with entomology.


Yet, when the Clever brothers awaken one too-sunny morning to find their parents missing and cavernous holes gaping throughout the house, everything comes into question.


The search for their parents leads the Clever brothers into a world of fantastical creatures and landscapes – and the dark truths their parents have been outrunning. Accompanied by stowaway sisters – thieving Millicent and nonverbal, wheelchair-bound Holliday – the children confront a Darkness that threatens to overtake their world and all the worlds beyond. 


But, before they can defeat the Darkness, the Clever brothers must first face the heartbreaking truth of a legend that Pilot had previously dismissed as fiction. A legend that calls into question everything Pilot had ever believed about his world, his family, and ultimately himself.


The Curious Clevers is not the story of the chosen one.


It’s the story of the other one.


And of digging deep to find your unique purpose, path, and and place in this world and beyond.