Super Boba Café #2: Home Sea Home

Aria and Nainai are back in this sweet and magical middle-grade, full-color graphic novel about a mysterious ancient monster and the quest to set it free

Aria thought her life would go back to normal when she left her nainai's boba shop--and the monster living below it--behind in San Francisco.

But while Aria and Nainai may have stopped the Big One, the aftershocks from her summer adventure are far from over. Each night, the monster visits Aria's dreams, calling her back to the caves below the city. Stranger still, Aria's discovered a newfound ability to manipulate water . . . but her powers aren't quite under her control.

So Aria convinces her parents she needs another visit with Nainai, and she packs her bags and heads back to San Francisco.

Beneath the boba shop, Aria and Nainai learn the monster's secret--he needs their help to return home. Can Aria learn how to harness her new powers (and a whole lot of boba) to bring the monster back to the sea, or will it be trapped under the city forever?

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Super Boba Cafe

Author: Nidhi Chanani
Publisher: Abrams Fanfare
Published: 09/23/2025
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.98w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781419759598
ISBN10: 1419759590
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Fantasy
- Juvenile Fiction | Asian American & Pacific Islander
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Grandparents

About the Author
Nidhi Chanani is a freelance illustrator, cartoonist, and writer. Born in Calcutta and raised in California, she creates because it makes her happy--with the hope that it can make others happy too. Her debut graphic novel, Pashmina, received starred reviews from School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, was a JLG Selection, a YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for Teens, and was reviewed in the New York Times, among other honors. She has a number of other comics and picture books out in the world, including Binny's Diwali, Jukebox, and What Will My Story Be? Chanani draws and dreams every day with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.