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  • The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class: Olive Little Gets Crafty

The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class: Olive Little Gets Crafty

Author
Illustrator
Kat Fajardo
Publication Date
July 08, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class: Olive Little Gets Crafty

Description

Meet the kids in Mrs. Z's wacky and wonderful third-grade class! Olive Little thinks a crafting club would be the perfect way to connect with her classmates--but when her club plans keep falling short, can she still find a way to make a place for herself in Mrs. Z's class?

Olive Little loves making things ... but she's still working out how to make friends. After she spies some other kids checking out crafting books from the school library, Olive gets a brilliant idea: She'll start a crafting club!

With a super-extraordinarily crafty invitation, everyone will surely want to join Olive's new club. And she knows just the invitation to make. All she needs is a perfect poem, some colorful confetti, a dozen eggshells, and some crafty know-how. Easy peasy!

Until Olive discovers a local skunk has made its home in her family's backyard henhouse! Can she craft a solution to the stinky situation in time to save her club?

Both sweetly poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, with black-and-white illustrations by Pura Belpré Honor artist Kat Fajardo, Olive's story invites readers into Mrs. Z's class where friendship and fun rule the school, from acclaimed author Linda Urban.

Perfect for!
★ My Weirdtastic School fans
★ Reluctant readers
★ Classroom read-alouds
★ Andrew Clements fans
★ Young artists
★ Crafting enthusiasts

Read them all! The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class have plenty of stories to share!
Emma McKenna, Full out (#1)
Rohan Murthy Has a Plan (#2)
Poppy Song Bakes a Way (#3)
The Legend of Memo Castillo (#4)
Wyatt Hill Brings a Lizard to School (#5)
Ayana Ndoum Takes the Stage (#6)
Synclaire Fields Knows the Score (#8)
Theo Chang is Not a Cat (#9) -- available for preorder now!
Thunder Nelson Does the Impossumble (#10) -- available for preorder now!
Sebastian Metzger Solves a Sticky Situation (#11) -- available for preorder now!
Fia Hosein Finds Her Beat (#12) -- available for preorder now!

*The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class is an innovative series where every book is written by a different all-star author and features a different kid in the same third-grade class. They can be read in any order!

Publication date
July 08, 2025
Genre
Fiction
Page Count
128
ISBN-13
9781523530366
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Series
The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV003000 - Juvenile Fiction | Art & Architecture
JUV035000 - Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
JUV039140 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
JUV045000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Chapter Books
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
Schools
Clubs
Handicraft
School fiction
Linda Urban
Linda Urban is the author of the picture book Mouse Was Mad, an International Reading Association Children's Choice, and the middle-grade novels A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Hound Dog True, and The Center of Everything. A former bookseller, she lives in Vermont with her family.

Madeline Valentine is the author-illustrator of The Bad Birthday Idea. Painting and drawing have been her favorite activities since she was smaller than Little Red Henry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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