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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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SOLVING FOR M
When life gets messy, who can you count on?
Mika has never been a math person. She's more of an artist. But ever since middle school started, she can't argue with the numbers:
293 = Number of fifth graders at Highbridge Middle School
28 = Amount of students in Mr. Vann's math class
25 = Entries in Mika's math journal
17 = Average science puns Dee Dee makes per day
1 = Total moles that mom had surgically removed from her leg
? = How many more doctors visits until Mom is better
Mika is nervous about starting middle school because her classes are all mixed up. In science, she has to write essays, and in art, she isn't allowed to draw. Most confounding is Mr. Vann, Mika's teacher who assigns each student a math journal. Who's ever heard of such a thing?
But when Mika's world gets turned upside down, her math journal becomes the perfect outlet for more than just homework. Through doodles and division, Mika strives to make sense of her her new normal. And when life fails to provide any easy answers, Mika is glad to find she has new friends, family, and one quirky teacher she can count on.
Debut middle grade author Jennifer Swender delivers poignant prose and illustrator Jennifer Naalchigar brings Mika's journal to life in this perfect equation of honesty and hope that adds up to a heartwarming coming-of-age story.
Veteran elementary school teacher Jennifer Swender burst on the picture book scene as one half of the husband/wife team that wrote New York City favorite My Subway Ride (Gibbs, Smith, 2006; Finalist of 2004 Foreword Magazine Children's Book of the Year) and followed it up with My Taxi Ride (Gibbs Smith, 2007). Her other picture books include Children's Songbag (Gibbs Smith, 2005), Putting on a Play (Gibbs Smith, 2005), Nascar ABC's (Gibbs Smith, 2007), Nascar 1, 2, 3's (Gibbs Smith, 2009), Fire Drill (Henry Holt, 2010), and Count on the Subway (Knopf, 2014). She is also the co-author of the chapter book series Animal Inn (Simon & Schuster, 2016) about a pet spa and hotel where the fun-and fur- flies!
Mika has never been a math person. She's more of an artist. But ever since middle school started, she can't argue with the numbers:
293 = Number of fifth graders at Highbridge Middle School
28 = Amount of students in Mr. Vann's math class
25 = Entries in Mika's math journal
17 = Average science puns Dee Dee makes per day
1 = Total moles that mom had surgically removed from her leg
? = How many more doctors visits until Mom is better
Mika is nervous about starting middle school because her classes are all mixed up. In science, she has to write essays, and in art, she isn't allowed to draw. Most confounding is Mr. Vann, Mika's teacher who assigns each student a math journal. Who's ever heard of such a thing?
But when Mika's world gets turned upside down, her math journal becomes the perfect outlet for more than just homework. Through doodles and division, Mika strives to make sense of her her new normal. And when life fails to provide any easy answers, Mika is glad to find she has new friends, family, and one quirky teacher she can count on.
Debut middle grade author Jennifer Swender delivers poignant prose and illustrator Jennifer Naalchigar brings Mika's journal to life in this perfect equation of honesty and hope that adds up to a heartwarming coming-of-age story.
Veteran elementary school teacher Jennifer Swender burst on the picture book scene as one half of the husband/wife team that wrote New York City favorite My Subway Ride (Gibbs, Smith, 2006; Finalist of 2004 Foreword Magazine Children's Book of the Year) and followed it up with My Taxi Ride (Gibbs Smith, 2007). Her other picture books include Children's Songbag (Gibbs Smith, 2005), Putting on a Play (Gibbs Smith, 2005), Nascar ABC's (Gibbs Smith, 2007), Nascar 1, 2, 3's (Gibbs Smith, 2009), Fire Drill (Henry Holt, 2010), and Count on the Subway (Knopf, 2014). She is also the co-author of the chapter book series Animal Inn (Simon & Schuster, 2016) about a pet spa and hotel where the fun-and fur- flies!
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Published 2019-05-01 by Crown Books For Young Readers |