This high school freshman is a lover of science who hates the sight of blood and the smell of rubbing alcohol. Despite this, you can find her volunteering at the hospital, but mostly in the nursery and gift shop—as she gets 10% off packs of Welch's Fruit Snacks. After noticing a few too many patients with the same symptoms but few commonalities, she goes on an epidemiologic adventure to figure out what is making the people in her small town sick before it spreads further at the State Fair.

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Part of an illustration from Yonka's Aquatic Adventure by the talented instagram.com/ilustracje_daniel_wlodarski!

Watching Jeffrey, watching Yonka, watching Jarvis Johnson.

Reviews like this absolutely warm my heart. I love hearing that children can see themselves in my book. Diversity in books is needed and creating inclusive literature is essential!

Photoshopped one of my favorite #illustrations by @ilustracje_daniel_wlodarski and made it my lock screen. Absolutely looooove this silly illustration of Yonka💕. Check out the surreal how it started vs. how it’s going!

When I was writing this book I was thinking about making a resource for my classroom. I never could have imagined all of the love and support that followed by publishing! Thank you thank you thank you!

✅ Girl Math— not including sushi and trips to Starbucks in my weekly budget

✅ Writing 5 Minutes a Day—It is a small start but better than nothing

✅ 𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖒 𝕱𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖘

❌ Googling a word I have spelled so insanely wrong that even spell check doesn't know what I am trying to say— Just do your best

❌ Saying "Now a silly one," when taking photos.

❌ LinkedIn

Your favorite STEM career book has activities you can do! Introducing The Scientist In Me STEM Careers From A-Z: The Activity book! Each page is jampacked with fun coloring pages, mazes, word searches, tic-tac-toe games, crossword puzzles, and sudoku! This activity book is the perfect opportunity for little ones to learn about STEM careers while embarking on a creative journey! Coming soon only on Amazon!

Illustrations for my second book have officially started! Introducing the first book in a series starring the funny, heartwarming, food loving, cat Yonka!

This book is well-written and illustrated. My kids and I love all the ideas of different science career options. I took this book to a career day for my 5th grader and loved seeing the kid's faces as they flipped through it. They can see themselves in this book since there is such a diverse representation of people who are scientists. Since I am a scientist I am so happy to finally see this being shown for all our kids to see themselves represented. Outstanding book by Jayda Abrams!

Using the last few days of the holiday season to finish off the last of my 2023 writing projects. Are you done with your 2023 writing goals/projects? Let me know in the comments below.

Part of an email I got from a colleague yesterday 💕! I hope this family loves and enjoys the book! I also hope they leave a review on ✨Amazon✨. Leaving Amazon reviews for books like The Scientist In Me is a great way to support authors while demonstrating that more people are interested in seeing women/girls of color in STEM!

Home is where you are surrounded by other critters that are about you. - Sandy Cheeks 🐿️

Years ago, as I embarked on my teaching journey, I couldn't help but notice a curious trend. It’s often easier to stumble upon a story starring an animal protagonist than one highlighting a vibrant character of color. The chances of finding a book like this become even slimmer when searching for female characters of color, in the STEM field, with intersectional and unique identities. This is just one of the reasons The Scientist In Me: STEM Careers A-Z was my first book. Am I saying I will never publish a book with an animal protagonist? No! Animals are cute, creative, and a friendly way to teach children about complicated subjects. BUUUUT it is still super important to write and create children’s literature with main characters that represent people of color. I hope that as I continue writing, I can grow to create stories from both human and non-human perspectives teaching students about the amazing world of science.

New author headshot! Got a good bit of writing done today and am excited to hit my writing goal of ✨3 books by 30✨! Getting all three published by 30 is another story… The new goal is to have the last manuscript done by the end of 2023. Illustrations for the second book start next week! 🥳

In an alternate universe, The Scientist In Me is a graphic novel that looks like this. Thoughts?

So excited to see how the illustrations turn out for my next project Yonka’s Aquatic Adventure! I’m not sure when it will be out but my hope is by Earth Day 2024. Fingers crossed! I asked #ai to generate some pictures of Yonka and Audrey and this was one of my favorites!

Check out what I am listening to as I am writing, editing, and creating.

Did you know The city in the window of the dentist's office on page 7 of The Scientist In Me is based on New York City and it was the only place I was specific about including. Simply put I ❤️ NY!