Mark Rober has spent years proving that science and engineering don’t have to feel like homework. His enormously popular videos turn subjects such as physics, robotics, and mechanical engineering into spectacular challenges, ingenious pranks, and machines that kids immediately want to understand.

CrunchLabs has carried that approach into the physical world with its Build Box subscriptions. Now Rober is taking it in another direction: children’s fiction.

The first three books in the new CrunchLabs Mysteries series are Toy Store Trouble , The Arcade Thief , and The Stolen Bike . Each is a hardcover, heavily illustrated mystery starring a…

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