Serena Says

Award-winning author Tanita S. Davis delivers a heartwarming and humorous middle grade tale about a young Blackgirl who finds her own voice through vlogging and learns to speak out. Perfect for fans for Sharon M. Draper and Lisa Greenwald.JC shines like a 4th of July sparkler. She has the best ideas, the biggest, funniest laugh, and the party starts when she arrives. Serena St. John is proud to be known as her best friend.Everything changes when JC returns from the hospital with a new kidneyand a new best friend. Out of the spotlight of JCs friendship, suddenly things arent quite so sparkly in Serenas world.Lonely Serena works on perfecting her vlogs, hoping to earn a shot at becoming a classroom reporter. If she can be smart and funny on video, why cant she manage that in real life? If only she could always pause, edit, or delete conversations. It would be so much easier to say the right thing at the right time . . . instead of not saying what she should, or, even worse, blurting out a secret that wasnt hers to share.Life doesnt have a pause buttonbut as Serena discovers her voice through vlogging, she learns that shes not just there to reflect JCs lightshes fully capable of shining on her own.

Award-winning author Tanita S. Davis delivers a heartwarming and humorous middle grade tale about a young Blackgirl who finds her own voice through vlogging and learns to speak out. Perfect for fans for Sharon M. Draper and Lisa Greenwald.JC shines like a 4th of July sparkler. She has the best ideas, the biggest, funniest laugh, and the party starts when she arrives. Serena St. John is proud to be known as her best friend.Everything changes when JC returns from the hospital with a new kidneyand a new best friend. Out of the spotlight of JCs friendship, suddenly things arent quite so sparkly in Serenas world.Lonely Serena works on perfecting her vlogs, hoping to earn a shot at becoming a classroom reporter. If she can be smart and funny on video, why cant she manage that in real life? If only she could always pause, edit, or delete conversations. It would be so much easier to say the right thing at the right time . . . instead of not saying what she should, or, even worse, blurting out a secret that wasnt hers to share.Life doesnt have a pause buttonbut as Serena discovers her voice through vlogging, she learns that shes not just there to reflect JCs lightshes fully capable of shining on her own.