to the online home of Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, author of titles including OPERATION SISTERHOOD (Crown/Random House); IT DOESN’T TAKE A GENIUS (Six Foot Press); SAVING EARTH: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future (FSG/Macmillan); 8TH GRADE SUPERZERO (Scholastic); TWO NAOMIS and NAOMIS TOO (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins), with Audrey Vernick; SOMEDAY IS NOW: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins (Quarto Kids); and ABOVE AND BEYOND: NASA’S JOURNEY TO TOMORROW (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan).

OPERATION SISTERHOOD in the NY Times!

The lovely school and library team at Random House has created a fun and dynamic educator’s guide for OPERATION SISTERHOOD along with two beautiful book buddies! It’s available for download here.

OUT NOW: with starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal! THE SUN DOES SHINE: An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice (Young Readers Edition), with Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin. It was an incredible honour to work on the adaptation of this memoir by Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin. Mr. Hinton spoke about his message to young people on CBS THIS MORNING, and we both shared on the adaptation process with Betsy Bird at School Library Journal.

Proud member of The Brown Bookshelf.

Say my name, over at the wonderful Teaching Books.

Loved chatting with incredible book advocate and author Charnaie Gordon on Here Wee Read!

I’m a big fan of AALBC.com, and am honoured to share “The Magic of Just Being” over there — please check it out!

My middle grade novel OPERATION SISTERHOOD is starting of 2022 in style and great company as an INDIENEXT pick! Thank you so much to Mystery To Me books and all the independent booksellers working incredibly hard to share our stories with readers.

SAVING EARTH is a Junior Library Guild Selection!

MAE MAKES A WAY: The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat and History Maker, in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is out now. The NY Times called MAE ‘a fine introduction to a determined trailblazer!’

Thank you Kirkus! IT DOESN’T TAKE A GENIUS named as one of the Best of 2021!

For more about me, check out this interview with the Children’s Media Association and my page at AALBC.

Find me on Instagram and Twitter.

Literary Agent: Marietta Zacker.

TV/Film: Mary Pender, United Talent Agency (UTA)

Hope this web site finds you well. ;)

And as always, I’m wishing you much bookjoy!

Brooklyn Love!

At the 30th Annual African American Children’s Book Fair in Philadelphia