BIO: Olugbemisola
Name:Olugbemisola Amusashonubi-Perkovich
Book Title: SEVENTH GRADE SUPERZERO
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
Favorite Books: Yikes! I'll start with Till We Have Faces, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Ring of Endless Light, A Wrinkle in Time...more recently American-Born Chinese, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Maya Angelou anything. Noel Streatfeild, Lois Lenski, Elizabeth Enright, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka...I could go on...and on.
Favorite Bit of Writing Advice: From a writing teacher: "If you're going to be a perfectionist, you'll never get anything done." Also: read, read, read, and write even when you don't feel like it.
Random Info About Me: I once spent a day on Sesame Street...I carried drumsticks everywhere I went when I was 17.
SEVENTH GRADE SUPERZERO Synopsis:
Reginald Garvey McKnight created a superhero character in kindergarten; now he dreams of being a real-life leading man: The Guy who's got game and gets The Girl. Instead, he threw up on the first day of school. In front of everyone. Seventh grade has gone downhill ever since.
Now Reggie can't even look The Girl in the eye, and his former best friend is bent on shredding his already tattered reputation. In SEVENTH GRADE SUPERZERO, Reggie just wants to live between the lines and avoid graduating as only "Pukey McKnight". He'll leave the living out loud to his oldest friend Ruthie, who was probably chanting "No justice, no peace!" in the womb, crowd-pleasers like Justin Walker, the guy every girl wants and every boy wants to be, and the "Grin Reaper" Vicky Ross, who has been in relentless pursuit of the rejection-proof college application since 3rd grade. Reggie is grateful for the steady friendship of Joe C. -- though a white best friend who's obsessed with bizarre trivia can make for awkward moments.
Reggie wonders why things are so bad if God is so good; his faith at all levels is challenged by his friendships, his encounters with a homeless man, and his role as a "Big Buddy" to a kindergarten boy. When he finally decides to "be the change he wants to see", Reggie leaves his superhero fantasies behind and values the little heroic acts of daily life; he learns that sometimes winning big means living small.
Book Title: SEVENTH GRADE SUPERZERO
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
Favorite Books: Yikes! I'll start with Till We Have Faces, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Ring of Endless Light, A Wrinkle in Time...more recently American-Born Chinese, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Maya Angelou anything. Noel Streatfeild, Lois Lenski, Elizabeth Enright, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka...I could go on...and on.
Favorite Bit of Writing Advice: From a writing teacher: "If you're going to be a perfectionist, you'll never get anything done." Also: read, read, read, and write even when you don't feel like it.
Random Info About Me: I once spent a day on Sesame Street...I carried drumsticks everywhere I went when I was 17.
SEVENTH GRADE SUPERZERO Synopsis:
Reginald Garvey McKnight created a superhero character in kindergarten; now he dreams of being a real-life leading man: The Guy who's got game and gets The Girl. Instead, he threw up on the first day of school. In front of everyone. Seventh grade has gone downhill ever since.
Now Reggie can't even look The Girl in the eye, and his former best friend is bent on shredding his already tattered reputation. In SEVENTH GRADE SUPERZERO, Reggie just wants to live between the lines and avoid graduating as only "Pukey McKnight". He'll leave the living out loud to his oldest friend Ruthie, who was probably chanting "No justice, no peace!" in the womb, crowd-pleasers like Justin Walker, the guy every girl wants and every boy wants to be, and the "Grin Reaper" Vicky Ross, who has been in relentless pursuit of the rejection-proof college application since 3rd grade. Reggie is grateful for the steady friendship of Joe C. -- though a white best friend who's obsessed with bizarre trivia can make for awkward moments.
Reggie wonders why things are so bad if God is so good; his faith at all levels is challenged by his friendships, his encounters with a homeless man, and his role as a "Big Buddy" to a kindergarten boy. When he finally decides to "be the change he wants to see", Reggie leaves his superhero fantasies behind and values the little heroic acts of daily life; he learns that sometimes winning big means living small.