Ten books.
One mission.
Two youth series and one field manual — stories and systems for becoming. Written for the students living it, and for anyone refusing to die small.
Written from experience
Not theory. Every book comes from lived experience and years of working directly with young people — in schools, in groups, in the real moments that matter.
Built for students
Plain language. Stories that pull you in. Ideas a young person can actually use the same day they read them.
Part of the system
The books go deeper on the same work as the curriculum and MoodCheck — one connected path to becoming.
The Super-Self Codes
Refusing to Die Small
At sixteen, Cornelius Mosby stood at a bus stop on the South Side of Chicago facing five men who wanted to hurt him. In two seconds, he made a choice that would define the next twenty years of his life.
This book is built on that moment and thirteen others like it.
Read the full overview
The Super-Self Codes is a field manual for emotional survival, written by a man who lived it. Part memoir. Part nervous system education. Part practical system you can use in real time when life gets hard.
Cornelius draws from real moments including his brother's schizophrenia, his father's eight years in prison, friends lost to violence, and kids standing at their own forks in the road. He translates those experiences into fourteen codes that work as both philosophy and tool.
You will learn how to:
- Find the space between trigger and reaction
- Process emotions instead of suppressing them
- Read your emotional data like a system, not like weather
- Break the silence that grows trauma in the dark
- Build daily systems that outrun willpower
- Refuse to die small in a world that rewards a smaller version of you
This is not motivation. Not generic inspiration. Not another book of quotes you forget by Friday.
This is a system for emotional mastery, built in real classrooms with real kids, refined across two decades of falling and getting back up, and now placed in your hands.
If you have been carrying things you have never put down.
If you are tired of reacting instead of choosing.
If you are ready to stop dying small.
Run the Codes.
Five stories about young people facing hard things — and finding the courage to get through them.
The Missing Children of Southern City, Illinois
Four strangers brought together by chance, work together to rid their city of crime. In a city where drugs, guns, and violence is prevalent, little justice is known in the place called Southern City. Meet Southern City's teenage crime fighters! Judah, James, Isabella, and Attarah works together to solve crimes in one of the most corrupt cities in the world. Chance brought them together- will serving justice keep them together?
Brittany
Brittany loses both her parents and is sent to a youth home — confused and not knowing how to move on. There she meets other girls just as alone as she is, and she must find the courage to overcome her pain and keep going.
The Coconut Tree
Iyana and Chikelu break curfew every night to meet at a special old coconut tree and talk about their dreams. Their island's strict rules make those dreams impossible — until the arrival of strangers forces them to choose between following the rules and following their hearts.
Escape House
A young boy watches his brother beat his mother every night — until he finally takes a stand. Taken to the escape house, he meets three boys facing the same struggle, and each one discovers that courage is their superpower.
Juvenile
Longing for a sense of brotherhood that he has never experienced, Brian would do just about anything to be accepted. When he finally finds what he's been looking for, it seems better than he ever dreamed. But down the line, he finds out that his new friends require him to make a sacrifice that could cost him—and his family—everything.
Four stories about choosing kindness — even when it's the harder choice.
The List
Due to an unhealthy home environment, young Joey takes his frustration and anger out on himself and other students at his high school. But one day, he meets an unlikely ally in the school dean, Mrs. Stone. With her help, Joey turns around his entire perspective on himself and his future potential. Mrs. Stone inspires him to stop inflicting his own toxic emotions on others and to replace them with kindness—even if that means being vulnerable to the enemies he's made in the past.
Narcotics Anonymous
One day Nia finds herself in an odd situation among some very odd people—by a big coincidence. The unusual encounter pushes her to reflect on the harmful decisions she has been making in her life lately. As her grandpa would say, courageous kindness is what she owes herself and the people around her. However, the consequences of her decisions are catching up with Nia, and hers is not the only life at stake.
Ol' School
Ol' School has been around for years, watching the young'uns learn and grow in Teeker's Park. He has made it his job to ensure the safety of everyone who enters the park by spreading love and kindness and showing them what it means to "play it cool." The values that he puts out into the park has made it a safe haven for the people dealing with outside conflict, violence, and drugs in the Southern City community. But one day, an incident occurs inside Teeker's Park that challenges everything Ol' School has done to keep it a safe place for his neighbors. He will do anything and everything he can to ensure that Teeker's Park doesn't loses its reputation. Will he succeed?
Lessons in the Dorm Room
Jessica grew up in a very hostile environment. Ongoing bullying and verbal and physical abuse formed her into a toughened, bitter individual whose last instinct it would be to show kindness to others. That is, until she moves away to college and meets an intriguing person who has a lot to teach her about rising above it all.
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