Olive Little Gets Crafty
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Chapter Book · Ages 6–9 · 2025

Olive Little Gets Crafty

Written by Linda Urban · Illustrated by Kat Fajardo

Part of the The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class series

A crafting club plan goes awry. Can she fix it and find friendship?

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128 pages· ~620L
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Olive Little dreams of making friends by starting a crafting club. But when her plans are thwarted by a skunk in her backyard, she must find a creative solution. Can Olive overcome this stinky obstacle and unite her classmates? Join Olive in Mrs. Z's lively third-grade class, where friendship and fun are always in session.

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Meet the kids in Mrs. Z’s wacky and wonderful third-grade class! Olive Little thinks a crafting club would be the perfect way to connect with her classmates–but when her club plans keep falling short, can she still find a way to make a place for herself in Mrs. Z’s class?   Olive Little loves making things … but she’s still working out how to make friends. After she spies some other kids checking out crafting books from the school library, Olive gets a brilliant idea: She’ll start a crafting club! With a super-extraordinarily crafty invitation, everyone will surely want to join Olive’s new club. And she knows just the invitation to make. All she needs is a perfect poem, some colorful confetti, a dozen eggshells, and some crafty know-how. Easy peasy! Until Olive discovers a local skunk has made its home in her family’s backyard henhouse! Can she craft a solution to the stinky situation in time to save her club? Both sweetly poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, with black-and-white illustrations by Pura Belpré Honor artist Kat Fajardo, Olive’s story invites readers into Mrs. Z’s class where friendship and fun rule the school, from acclaimed author Linda Urban.   Perfect for! ★ My Weirdtastic School fans ★ Reluctant readers ★ Classroom read-alouds ★ Andrew Clements fans ★ Young artists ★ Crafting enthusiasts   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) Ayana Ndoum Takes the Stage (#6) Olive Little Gets Crafty (#7) Synclaire Fields Knows the Score (#8) Theo Chang is Not a Cat (#9) – available for preorder now! Thunder Nelson Does the Impossumble (#10) – available for preorder now! Sebastian Metzger Solves a Sticky Situation (#11) – available for preorder now! Fia Hosein Finds Her Beat (#12) – available for preorder now! *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!

At a glance
Format
Pages
128
Reading age
6–9
Audience
Transitional Reader
Lexile
~620L
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The fine print

Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
~4
F&P level
~O
Publication
Published
July 8, 2025
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781523530366

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