Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
BIO
OLUGBEMISOLA RHUDAY-PERKOVICH is the award-winning author of many books for young readers, including Operation Sisterhood; It Doesn’t Take A Genius; 8th Grade Superzero; You’re Breaking My Heart; Two Naomis , co-authored with Audrey Vernick, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award; Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future; Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow ; the Makeda Makes easy reader series; and Someday Is Now. She is a member of the Brown Bookshelf, and lives with her family in New York City where she writes, makes things, and needs to get more sleep. Website: olugbemisolabooks.com.
The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class: Synclaire Fields Knows the Score
Meet the kids in Mrs. Z’s wacky and wonderful third-grade class! Synclaire Fields is proud to be the best in the class at math—until one mistake in a high-stakes situation means she’s NOT the best after all. So who is she instead?
Synclaire Fields is the Math Kid in Mrs. Z’s class, getting perfect marks on every quiz and helping her classmates master tricky concepts. She especially loves demonstrating her skills at her parents’ store after school. Then she gets TWO ANSWERS WRONG on a math test, and … How can she be the Math Kid if she isn’t good at math anymore?So Synclaire embarks on a quest to figure out what’s next. Maybe she’ll be a piano prodigy? A board-games whiz? A skating star? She likes some of these hobbies, but there’s one constant with every role: She seems to come back to math. Maybe, with the help of her friends in Mrs. Z’s class, she can still be the Math Kid after all?
Both sweetly poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, with black-and-white illustrations by Pura Belpré Honor artist Kat Fajardo, Synclaire’s from NAACP Image Award finalist Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich weaves a story that invites readers into Mrs. Z’s class where friendship and fun rule the school.
Operation Sisterhood: Stealing the Show!
The Operation Sisterhood series continues as the four sisters decide to put on a community musical! Sunday, Bo, Lee, and Lil are four sisters from a patchwork family bonded by their love of music that form a musical babysitting band business Operation Sisterhood.
Award-winning author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich delivers a heartwarming sequel to Operation Sisterhood in Stealing the Show!
Imaginative Sunday impulsively announces her next big community project—staging an original musical—everybody’s counting on her, especially her sisters, Bo and the Twins, Lil and Lee. Then, disaster: Sunday has lost her creative mojo just when she most want to impress her new neighbor, TV star Talitha Thomas. Soon there will be more drama offstage than on!
Can Bo and the Twins use what they learn about New York City communities past and present and their band babysitting business to help Sunday find her shine and her love of storytelling.
