Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
BIO
OLUGBEMISOLA RHUDAY-PERKOVICH is the award-winning author of several books, including IndieNext Top Ten Pick and BCALA Best of the Best Operation Sisterhood, Kirkus Best of the Year It Doesn’t Take a Genius, and the NAACP Image Award Nominee Two Naomis, co-authored with Audrey Vernick. She also writes picture books, easy readers, and nonfiction like School Library Journal and Bank Street Best of the Year Makeda Makes A Birthday Treat, the young adult novel You’re Breaking My Heart, a Junior Library Guild selection, Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future, a CCBC Choices book, and Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book.
Olugbemisola has written for various outlets, including PBS Parents, Read Brightly, American Baby, and some of her childhood favorite hip hop fanzines, like the iconic Right On! Magazine. She was the 2024 Writer-in-Residence at Bank Street School for Children. She was born in NYC, then spent many years as the “new kid” at a lot of schools in different places. Now, she lives with her family back in NYC where she writes, makes things, and needs to get more sleep.
When Sunday impulsively announces her next big 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 “taking up space” in NYC to help Sunday find her shine again? It’s Operation Sisterhood to the rescue!
Award-winning author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich delivers a heartwarming sequel to Operation Sisterhood. Includes a New York City map to follow along on the sisters’ journey!
