Podcaster Sandi Klein interviews mother-daughter writing team, Liz and Lucy Lareau about their graphic novel series: The Geeky F@b Five!

Family businesses are nothing new, but the GEEKY FAB FIVE STEM is not your ordinary mom and pop partnership. Actually, it’s a mom and daughter venture. 13 year old Lucy Lareau and her mom Liz are the co-creators of this graphic novel series based on Lucy’s elementary school experiences, where students learn to make a difference. Their goal is to inspire girls to reach their potential and work together for a better world. We guarantee our conversation with this creative duo will inspire you!

You can hear the entire interview here.

Liz Lareau and her daughter Lucy, 12, talking through some of the scenes and characters in their Geeky Fab 5 book series at home in Moline, Ill.Credit…Lauren Justice for The New York Times

Writer Jon Hurdle, from the New York Times, featured GF5 co-authors Lucy and Liz in this story about kids in business  …

Lucy Lareau is excited about the publication of her latest book, this one on monarch butterflies. Conceiving, writing, editing and promoting it required hard work — all while she was finishing the seventh grade.

With her mother and co-author, Liz Lareau, 12-year-old Lucy has a contract with the publisher, Papercutz, to produce 10 graphic novels about girls who use their skills in science, engineering, technology and math to solve real-world problems while becoming capable young women.

You can read the entire story here.

Lucy and Liz Lareau discuss their second book “Mystery of the Missing Monarchs” with WUSA-TV’s Markette Sheppard in advance of the “Hooray For Books” expo in Alexandria, VA on June 22, 2019.

Lucy and Liz Lareau talk with host Angie Sharp about their series of graphic novels for tweens, The Geeky F@b 5 on GOOD MORNING QUAD CITIES, on WQAD-TV.