BJ
Careful, thoughtful, adventurous, secretly hopeful. Asks 'but why?' Breaks things, then fixes them.
Favorite thing to build: Anything with a spring in it
Meet BJ →
"Make Your Own Adventures"
An Adventure Isn't Something you Watch. It's Something you Decide to Create. Let the Inventure Kids be Your Guide
MEET THE INVENTURE KIDS
Brook
Curious, imaginative, and always watching closely. Spots possibilities other people walk right past.
Favorite thing to build: Anything she can take apart, change, and make better
Meet Brook →
Tyson
Bold, athletic, and just a little reckless. If someone says it can't be done, he wants to be the first one to try it.
Favorite thing to build: Anything he can ride, race, or test
Meet Tyson →
Hash
Quiet, observant, endlessly resourceful. Sees useful machines hiding inside things everyone else calls junk.
Favorite thing to build: Something from sticks, wire, and whatever is lying around
Meet Hash →WHAT IS AN INVENTURE?
An Inventure starts when you look at something ordinary and ask:
"What could I make out of this?"
INVENT+ADVENTURE=INVENTURE
- 1
FIND SOMETHING
A busted fan. A crate. A pile of wire nobody wants.
- 2
IMAGINE SOMETHING
Ask the only question that matters: what could this be?
- 3
BUILD SOMETHING
Make the first bad version. Then make the second one.
- 4
GO DO SOMETHING
Take it outside. Use it. Break it. Fix it.
THE BIG INVENTURE
Every invention, friendship and skill in the series is building toward one thing.
STOP 1 OF 3
BOOK ONE
The Adventure Begins
Thirteen-year-old BJ loses his San Diego home to a wildfire. His family retreats to his grandfather's desert farm in Cedar Wash, in the Four Corners country of red rock, irrigation ditches, hay barns and one hardware store. BJ sees a barn full of junk. Grandpa shows him a barn full of parts. With three new friends, BJ starts inventing — and starts belonging.
STOP 2 OF 3
BOOK TWO
The Adventure Gets Bigger
The builds leave the barn. Longer distances, bigger machines, harder failures. The kids explore canyons, ranches and back roads, learn from neighbors and elders, and discover that the hardest part of an invention is usually the second try.
STOP 3 OF 3
BOOK THREE
The Inventure Carnival
Everything the kids have built, learned and repaired comes together at the Cedar Wash Inventure Carnival on Grandpa's farm. The whole community turns out, including neighboring Navajo families. Every ride, game and attraction is something the kids built themselves.
THE CEDAR WASH INVENTURE CARNIVAL
It happens on Grandpa's farm. The whole community comes, including neighboring Navajo families. Every ride, game and attraction is something the kids built themselves.
WHAT ARE WE BUILDING TODAY?
SEE POSSIBILITY
Potential where others see junk — in materials and in people.
LEARN FROM SOMEONE
Grandpa → Dad → BJ. Skills travel down the line.
MAKE YOUR OWN FUN
Freedom, paired with responsibility.
EARN FRIENDSHIP
Friendships get built the same way inventions do.
EXPLORE
The landscapes, history and cultures of the Southwest.
USE WHAT YOU HAVE
Frugality is a superpower with a bad reputation.
TAKE CARE OF THE PLACE
Leave the land and the town better than you found it.
KEEP TRYING
"Too many hares, not enough turtles." — Grandpa
THE WORLD IS FULL OF THINGS TO DISCOVER.
You don't have to wait for an adventure to find you.