Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire, Paperback

Cilla Lee-Jenkins is 50% Chinese, 50% Caucasian, and 100% destined for literary greatnessIntroducing an irresistible new character who shares stories about a new sibling, being biracial, and her destiny as a future author extraordinaire in this middle grade novel.

Priscilla ``Cilla`` Lee-Jenkins is on a tight deadline. Her baby sister is about to be born, and Cilla needs to become a bestselling author before her family forgets all about her. So she writes about what she knows best--herselfAnd Cilla has a lot to write about: How did she deal with being bald until the age of five? How did she overcome her struggles with reading? How do family traditions with Grandma and Granpa Jenkins differ from family traditions with her Chinese grandparents, Nai Nai and Ye Ye?

Written by Susan Tan and illustrated by Dana Wolfekotte, Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire is a novel bursting with love and humor, as told through a bright, irresistible biracial protagonist who will win your heart and make you laugh.

Praise for Cilla-Lee Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire

``Tan writes in a fun and spunky voice that brings to mind favorite characters such as Junie B. Jones, Ramona Quimby, and Fancy Nancy but is still all her own . . . Readers will identify with Cilla and wish they were friends with her in real life.`` --School Library Journal

``This story has everything. An irresistible voice, a cast of authentic characters, a hilarious and whip-smart heroine. Also...some spectacular baldness and TIME TRAVELCilla Lee-Jenkins is brilliant. Her struggles may seem ordinary, but they're also extraordinary, exquisite, and very very important.`` --Kate Beasley, author of Gertie's Leap to Greatness

``I challenge anyone to read this book and not fall in love with Cilla Lee-Jenkins. With the spunk of Ivy and Bean and the heart of Ramona Quimby, she's a charmer from start to finish of this laugh-out-loud-funny book.`` --I. W. Gregorio, author of None of the Above