by Susan Tan
Dana Wulfekotte is a children’s book author, illustrator, and animator. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Queens with her boyfriend and two rabbits (whom she now regrets not naming Supernova and Sparkledust). You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
A (Very Important) Letter from the Author
1. Families and the Forces of Darkness
2. Babies, Baldness, and Other Struggles
3. My Brush with Destiny, or How I Became a Future Author Extraordinaire
4. Preschool Blues
5. Kindergarten and Other Tragedies
6. Kindergarten, Part II. Less of a Struggle, Plus Rocket Ships
7. Questions
8. First Grade, Reading, and Other Struggles. Also, Aliens
9. First Grade, Part II. More Aliens, and Halloween
10. Colors
11. Struggles
12. New Things
13. Surprises
14. Traditions
15. Priscilla Lee-Jenkins
Epilogue: Plot Twist
Glossary: Cilla’s Guide to Life and Literary Terms
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Copyright
Text copyright © 2017 by Susan Tan
Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Dana Wulfekotte
Published by Roaring Brook Press
Roaring Brook Press is a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010
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All rights reserved
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Tan, Susan, author.|Wulfekotte, Dana, illustrator.
Title: Cilla Lee-Jenkins: future author extraordinaire / Susan Tan; illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte.
Description: First edition.|New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2017.|Summary: “A half-Chinese, half-Caucasian girl’s ‘memoir’ about a new sibling, being biracial, and her path to literary greatness”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016009081 (print)|LCCN 2016036034 (ebook)|ISBN 9781626725515 (hardback)|ISBN 9781626725522 (Ebook)
Subjects:|CYAC: Family life—Fiction.|Friendship—Fiction.|Authorship—Fiction.|Chinese Americans—Fiction.|Racially mixed people—Fiction.|BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship.|JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories.|JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women.|JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Asian American.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.T37 Ci 2017 (print)|LCC PZ7.1.T37 (ebook)|DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016009081
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eISBN 9781626725522
First hardcover edition, 2017
eBook edition, March 2017
