Jojo vs. Middle School

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After having hilariously terrible first days of sixth grade, four girls vow to ride out the super highs and cringe-worthy lows of middle school together, no matter how awkward it gets, in this first book in the Team Awkward middle grade series.

Jojo has everything planned out for the perfect first day of middle school, down to her outfit and hairstyle. But when Mom, distracted by her new live-in boyfriend, Paul, forgets to wake Jojo up, she oversleeps and has to make do with leggings, a t-shirt, and her brothers hoodie.

The day still goes okay until Jojo realizes that she has a hole in her leggings thanks to Purrito, the kitten Paul gifted her. Because Paul isnt just Paul; hes Mr. Meow, a mega-famous cat-fluencer. Nearly everything in Jojos life is now cat-themedincluding the underwear that the hole in her leggings is now showcasing to the whole school!

Embarrassed and unable to show her face in the cafeteria, Jojo spends her lunch period in an abandoned locker room. But she isnt the only one hiding to cope with some major awkwardness. Maybe, with friends by her side, middle school wont be so bad after all.

Author Bio

Joy McCulloughwrites books and plays from her home in the Seattle area, where she lives with her husband and two children.She is the author of the middle grade novelsAcross the Pond,A Field Guide to Getting Lost,Not Starring Zadie Louise,Code Red, andBasil & Dahlia, as well as the middle grade series Team Awkward,and the picture booksHarriets Ruffled Feathers,Champ and Major: First Dogs, andThe Story of a Book. Her debut novelBlood Water Paintwas longlisted for the National Book Award and was a William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist. Visit her at JoyMcCullough.com.

Veeda Bybee is a former journalist and holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author ofLily and the Great Quake: A San Francisco Earthquake Survival Story,Li on Angel Island, andShining a Light: Celebrating 40 Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World. Veeda is also the coauthor of the Team Awkward middle grade series and part of theRural VoicesandCalling the Moonanthologies. She has a rescue golden retriever/cattle dog named Sophie (fromHowls Moving Castle) and fluffy black cat, also from an animal shelter, named Zuko (fromAvatar: The Last Airbender). Veeda lives with her family in Nevada where she reads, writes, and bakes.