Team Meena - Paperback

by Karla Manternach (Author), Mina Price (Illustrator)

"For Junie B. graduates" (Kirkus Reviews), the fourth and final novel in the Meena Zee series follows irrepressible Meena as she maintains a long-distance friendship with Sof? and makes new friends.

No one can take Sof?'s place. Now that her best friend lives across the country, everything reminds Meena of her. She even spends the whole week saving up things to tell Sof? in their Saturday video chats.

But when Sof? gets busy with soccer friends, Meena decides to join a team of her own. Only it turns out softball is harder than she expects. So is getting along with Lin, her bossy teammate who doesn't even like art!

It's not like Meena wants to be friends or anything. She still has Sof?, doesn't she? But can they stay close when they're so far apart, or is it time to expand Team Meena?

Author Biography

At Meena's age, Karla Manternach was a smudgy kid in tube socks. She once stopped an entire parade by running in front of a fire truck for candy. Karla liked every subject in school but always loved writing best of all. Today, she is a freelance writer who creates books for young readers. Karla lives with her family in small-town Wisconsin. Her favorite color is orange.

Mina Price is an American illustrator and designer. She has a particular affinity for character design and lifestyle illustration, or basically any project that allows her to draw interesting people in cool outfits. She enjoys finding ways to seamlessly marry traditional and digital art, going from scanner to Photoshop to printer to paint and back again. Mina graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in illustration. Now she is a freelance illustrator and designer who does everything from editorial to publishing work and all that's in between. When she is not drawing, Mina can frequently be found baking things with lots of sugar or getting way too emotional over a good book.