The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class: Synclaire Fields Knows the Score

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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 Belpre Honor artist Kat Fajardo, Synclaire's story invites readers into Mrs. Z's class where friendship and fun rule the school, from NAACP Image Award finalist Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich.

Perfect for!

My Weirdtastic School fans

Reluctant readers

Classroom read-alouds

Andrew Clements fans

Math whiz kids

Math haters

Kids who haven't found their hobby yet!

Read them all! The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class have plenty of stories to share!

Emma McKenna, Full out (#1)

Rohan Murthy Has a Plan (#2)

Poppy Song Bakes a Way (#3)

The Legend of Memo Castillo (#4)

Wyatt Hill Brings a Lizard to School (#5) - available for preorder now!

Ayana Ndoum Takes the Stage (#6) - available for preorder now!

Olive Little Gets Crafty (#7) - coming soon

Theo Chang: Boy or Cat (#9) - coming soon!

Thunder Nelson and the Impossumble Dream (#10) - coming soon!

*The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class is an innovative series where every book is written by a different all-star author and features a different kid in the same third-grade class. They can be read in any order!

Author Bio

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the author of many novels for young readers, including Operation Sisterhood; It Doesn't Take A Genius; 8th Grade Superzero; 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; and the picture books Someday Is Now and Mae Makes A Way. She is a member of the Brown Bookshelf, and editor of the We Need Diverse Books anthology The Hero Next Door. Olugbemisola lives with her family in New York City where she writes, makes things, and needs to get more sleep. She invites you to visit her on Instagram @olugbemisolarhudayperkovich and at her website olugbemisolabooks.com.Kat Fajardo (they/she) received a Pura Belpre Honor for Illustration for their first graphic novel, Miss Quinces (published in Spanish as Srta. Quinces). Born and raised in New York City, Kat now lives in Austin, Texas, with their pubs, Mac and Roni. They invite you to visit them at katfajardo.com.