Tina Wells, Author, Michael Segawa, Illustrator , illus. by Michael Segawa. HarperCollins $10.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-158308-7
With a lot of exclamation points and online shorthand (glossary included for newbies), Wells begins her saga of Mackenzie (Zee) Blue Carmichael, whose main goal is surviving junior high. Her BFF has moved “ALL THE WAY to PARIS,” her dad...
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Tina Wells with Stephanie Smith, illus. by Brittney Bond. Random House, $13.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-37829-8
To keep others happy, 11-year-old June Jackson, who is Black, tells mistruths about everything from liking collard greens to wanting to go to Howard University. Though she feels pressure to live up to her parents’ professional success, June believes
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Tina Wells, illus. by Veronica Miller Jamison. West Margin, $12.99 (168p) ISBN 978-1-5132-0960-9
In this character-driven series starter spun off from the Mackenzie Blue series, California girl Mackenzie “Zee” Blue Carmichael and her family are moving to London, and red-haired, olive-skinned Zee is headed to year nine at an English boarding...
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