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@_she_reads It’s Elementary ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/ 5 elisembryant is a YA author but I’m so glad she ventured out to write her first adult book ✍🏾 I 100% enjoyed the humor featured in this cozy mystery. It was so fun to read ☺️ The principal of the school her daughter, Pearl attends goes missing and Mavis is now a detective in addition to the newest DEI committee chair for the PTA 😅 she starts investigating the disappearance with the hot school psychologist, Jake(this also includes a little flirting 😏). There are a lot of fun side characters, dveloped well with their own personalities. They were funny and worrisome lololol. The antics these characters pulled!! Lmao The book had the perfect amount of mystery. I liked reading about all of clues 🕵🏾♀️ and the plot twist at the end!! I also appreciated the law and order references. I’m a school social work at two elementary schools so I can relate to certain aspects and situations in this book in regard to working with students and their parents. Exploring topics relevant today such as DEI initiatives, banning books from libraries and challenges single mothers face while trying to balance work and motherhood, this book offers a realistic view into parenting. Everyone has their own parenting style and there are no right and wrong answers! I really love the bond Mavis and her father have. He provided her with encouraging words when she was not feeling her best. I read that this is the first book in a new series 👀 I’m looking forward to reading the next one 📖 #whatimreading #currentlyreading #bookstagram #blackgirlreading #wellreadblackgirl #bookrecommendations #bookish2024 #blackauthors #bookreview #itselementary
It's Elementary - Target Exclusive Edition - by Elise Bryant (Paperback)
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A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too involved in their kids' schools, from NAACP Image Award nominee Elise Bryant.
Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha Holbrook, the long-reigning, slightly terrifying PTA president, and finds herself in charge of the school's brand-new DEI committee.
As one of the few Black parents at this California elementary school, Mavis tries to convince herself this is an opportunity for real change. But things go off the rails at the very first meeting, when the new principal's plans leave Trisha absolutely furious. Later that night, when Mavis spies Trisha in yellow rubber gloves and booties, lugging cleaning supplies and giant black trash bags to her waiting minivan, it's only natural that her mind jumps to somewhere it surely wouldn't in the light of day.
Except Principal Smith fails to show up for work the next morning, and has been MIA since the meeting. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Mavis, along with the school psychologist with the great forearms (look, it's worth noting), launches an investigation that will challenge her views on parenting, friendship, and elementary school politics.
Brilliantly written, It's Elementary is a quick-witted, escapist romp that perfectly captures just how far parents will go to give their kids the very best, all wrapped in a mystery that will leave you guessing to the very end.
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