{"id":10837,"date":"2019-07-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2019-07-03T07:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:57:35","slug":"with-her-math-journal-new-friends-shes-solving-for-m-mglit-by-jennifer-swender-illustrated-by-jennifer-naalgichar-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10837","title":{"rendered":"With her math journal & new friends, she’s SOLVING FOR M – #MGlit by Jennifer Swender, illustrated by Jennifer Naalgichar (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mom rushes to doctor appointment not on their calendar,
The fifth grade art teacher thinks drawing isn’t important,
Mika isn’t in any classes at all with her BFF!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Mr. Vann’s math class turns out to be more fun than she could imagine -“One to a customer! Bonus points! Show your work, thinkers!” Mika really likes sketching her artistic math journal entries<\/a> and makes new friends who love science puns and ballet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uh-oh\u2026that small mole on Mom’s leg<\/a> isn’t a small problem after all – how many cancer treatments until everything is okay? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why does the principal always come by Mr. Vann’s class when they’re loud and moving around to demonstrate a math problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is their school advertising for a new fifth grade math teacher?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grab this debut novel now and see Mika’s math journal as she works out problems numeric and otherwise. Read a sample chapter free here <\/a>at the publisher’s website = one of my favorite 2019 titles!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If old friends don’t equal now-friends, how do you solve for new friends?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Solving for M \/ Jennifer Swender, illustrated by Jennifer Naalgichar. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2019. [author site<\/a>] [illustrator site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mom rushes to doctor appointment not on their calendar, The fifth grade art teacher thinks drawing isn’t important, Mika isn’t in any classes at all with her BFF! But Mr. Vann’s math class turns out to be more fun than she could imagine -“One to a customer! Bonus points! Show your work, thinkers!” Mika really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[124,22,11,5,113,16,87,40,239,44,46,185,27,184,186,111,15,9,21,268,35,8],"class_list":["post-10837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-art","tag-behavior","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-dance","tag-determination","tag-divorce","tag-fathers","tag-florida","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-grandparents","tag-medical","tag-mothers","tag-new-york","tag-non-us-artist","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-stepfamily","tag-surprises","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Solving-for-M.jpg?fit=298%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10837"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10847,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions\/10847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}