Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

8thGradeSuper

Make room for a Naomi in your life…or TWO!

TWO NAOMIS, out NOW. Available at your favourite bookshop, online, and loves to be enjoyed with cake.

Welcome to the online home of Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, author of 8TH GRADE SUPERZERO (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic) and TWO NAOMIS (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins), with Audrey Vernick. More on my work here.

Looking for some of my other work? A bit of my writing on literacy, parenting, crafting, and more can be found online.

For information about appearances, school and library visits: read on.

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Woot! Many thanks to The Undefeated for including the Naomis on this great list. Just finished and LOVED Swing Time, reading Jeff Chang's We Gon' Be Alright now; so much more to add to my shelves!

TWO NAOMIS got a Nerdie!!!!! So many thanks to the amazing Nerdy Book Club team for the honour -- it means so much. I'm a great admirer of their exemplary work sharing literature and book joy with us all, so this is extra sweet. Woohoo!!!! We got a Nerdie!!!!!

WHOA! TWO NAOMIS is an NAACP Image award nominee!!! I am THRILLED and SO, SO GRATEFUL!
Hooray! I took so much joy in perusing these flyers as a kid...now 8th Grade Superzero is a part of the Scholastic Reading Club/We Need Diverse Books winter flyer, and I'm seriously happydancing!
I am proud to be a member of The Brown Bookshelf. Please join us in our Open Declaration in Support of Children
TWO NAOMIS, out NOW. Grateful for starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist!
"A compassionate, necessary tale about the real-life act of building a blended family." Thrilled by these kind words about TWO NAOMIS from Hope Wabuke at The Root!
"Two Naomis is quiet, it’s smart, it’s full of real people dealing with real—and messy—feelings. It’s the sort of book that makes my cold heart feel all warm and fuzzy; it’s the sort of book that I hope inspires companion novels because all of the side characters—even the ones that we never actually meet!—are so immediately interesting and unique and again, real; it’s the sort of book that I just want to thrust at people and say, “HERE! READ THIS!” So, so grateful for this lovely post by Leila Roy over at Kirkus, and LOVE the Reading Challenge idea!
"Warm, upbeat, and satisfying" -- thank you, Publshers Weekly!
A starred review! "A smart, endearing story about two girls who are blending families, growing up, and building a friendship." Thank you, Kirkus!
TWO NAOMIS is a Junior Library Guild Selection! Woot!
Many thanks to Sam Bloom for this lovely Throwback Thursday review of 8th Grade Superzero!

Had a blast with my co-author, Audrey Vernick, talking TWO NAOMIS with Phil Bildner. Out in September. Pre-order today!
Thank you to The Root for recommending TWO NAOMIS!
What a beautiful and powerful day at the 2016 Kweli Journal Children's Book Writers' Conference!
Looking for other work? Some of my writing on literacy, parenting, crafting, and more can be found online.

Justice On The Lesson Plan, my post on literature and social justice over at The Brown Bookshelf.
Especially grateful for this generous review from author and teacher Megan Morrison!

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

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