Banana Pants! (Miranda and Maude #2)
Emma Wunsch
Jessika von Innerebner
Princess Miranda and Not-a-Princess Maude are total opposites and totally best friends! Fed up with nonstop testing, Miranda and Maude's teacher makes a surprise announcement: They are going to put on a school play! And, the class decides, it will be called Banana Pants! School is finally a joy, and the project inspires the girls to fight for more positive change. Maude decides to wage a campaign against Styrofoam lunch trays, and she thinks she has the perfect powerful ally in Miranda. But, much to Maude's frustration, Miranda would rather focus on her own good cause: love! The girls can't seem to see eye to eye, and in pursuing their good causes separately, they go way too far, resulting in the friendship's first-ever fight.
Emma Wunsch has written movie reviews for The Washington Free Press, worked in a used bookstore, taught college-level writing, and published short fiction and journalism in a variety of publications including The Best of Bellevue Literary Review. In a starred review of her YA debut, The Movie Version, Publishers Weekly called Wunsch "a writer to watch." This is her first chapter book. She lives in Lebanon, New Hampshire, with her husband and two daughters. Jessika von Innerebner is an artist who's worked with clients including Disney, Nickelodeon, Highlights Magazine, and Fisher Price. She lives in Kelowna, Canada, and enjoys dancing, long-boarding, and traveling. www.jessvoni.com