Synclaire Fields Knows the Score

Meet the kids in Mrs. Z's wacky and wonderful third-grade class! Synclaire Fields is proud to be the best in the class at math-until one mistake in a high-stakes situation means she's NOT the best after all. So who is she instead?

Synclaire Fields is the Math Kid in Mrs. Z's class, getting perfect marks on every quiz and helping her classmates master tricky concepts. She especially loves demonstrating her skills at her parents' store after school. Then she gets TWO ANSWERS WRONG on a math test, and ... How can she be the Math Kid if she isn't good at math anymore?

So Synclaire embarks on a quest to figure out what's next. Maybe she'll be a piano prodigy? A board-games whiz? A skating star? She likes some of these hobbies, but there's one constant with every role: She seems to come back to math. Maybe, with the help of her friends in Mrs. Z's class, she can still be the Math Kid after all?

Both sweetly poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, with black-and-white illustrations by Pura Belpré Honor artist Kat Fajardo, Synclaire's story invites readers into Mrs. Z's class where friendship and fun rule the school, from NAACP Image Award finalist Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich.

Perfect for!
¿ My Weirdtastic School fans
¿ Reluctant readers
¿ Classroom read-alouds
¿ Andrew Clements fans
¿ Math whiz kids
¿ Math haters
¿ Kids who haven't found their hobby yet!

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) - available for preorder now!
Ayana Ndoum Takes the Stage (#6) - available for preorder now!
Olive Little Gets Crafty (#7) - coming soon
Theo Chang: Boy or Cat (#9) - coming soon!
Thunder Nelson and the Impossumble Dream (#10) - coming soon!

*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!

About the author

by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich with an introduction from Kate Messner, illustrated by Kat Fajardo

Summary

The innovative Kids in Mrs. Z's Class chapter book series continues with Synclaire Fields-a math whiz forced to consider who she is if she's not the best-from NAACP Image Award finalist Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich.

Product details

• Authors: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola/ Fajardo Rhuday-Perkovich, Rhuday-Perkovich Olugbemisola
• Assisted by: Kat Fajardo (Illustration), Kat Fajardo (Illustration), Kate Messner (Introduction)
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 9
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9781523530328
• ISBN: 978-1-5235-3032-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > German; JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Chapter Books, JUVENILE FICTION / Mathematics, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), School stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Educational: Mathematics & numeracy, Educational: Languages other than English, Educational: Mathematics and numeracy