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"Meeting Cilla felt like making a new best friend." -- Grace Lin, bestselling author of Newbery Honor book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 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 -- herself! Stories from her bestselling memoir, Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire, include:- How she dealt with being bald until she was five- How she overcame her struggles with reading- How family traditions with her Grandma and Grandpa Jenkins and her Chinese grandparents, Nai Nai and Ye Ye, are so differentDebut author Susan Tan has written a novel bursting with love and humor, as told through a bright, irresistible biracial protagonist who will win your heart and make you laugh.
About the Author
Susan Tan has worked with children's books since the age of 14, when she had her first job working in the children's room of the Concord Public Library. She went on to study children's literature while at Williams College, and got her PhD from the University of Cambridge in children's and Young Adult literature. While in graduate school, she began to write a children's book of her own which became her debut novel - Cilla Lee-Jenkins, Future Author Extraordinaire. Cilla is based on Susan's own experiences growing up in a mixed-race family. A second book in the Cilla series, titled Cilla Lee-Jenkins: This Book is A Classic is scheduled for release in 2018. Susan was the 2015 Gish Jen Emerging Writers Fellow at the Writers' Room of Boston, and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. You can follow her on Twitter (@susansmtan) , or write her a message through her website: www.susantanbooks.com
