Take a Breath Olive Tran
Everybody’s Got Talent?
The school talent show is coming up, and Olive Tran is desperate to enter. The best act wins a party for their entire class, and Olive is determined to be the hero who brings home the pizza!
But Olive has one big problem: What exactly is her talent? The more she struggles to find it, the more anxious she becomes. How can she win the talent show with no talent? It doesn’t help that her brother Ben is a piano prodigy. If only good intentions and a sassy attitude were enough! Can Olive find a way to score the pizza party for her friends? And why does she want to win so badly anyway?
Book Two in the Olive Tran Series!
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Details
Publication Date: September 16, 2025
Reading Age: 6 - 8
Genre: BIPOC Creators, Children's Fiction, Early Chapter Book
Product Format: Paperback
Pages: 102
ISBN: 978-1-77260-427-6
Weight: 200
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About the Author
Phuong Truong
Phuong Truong grew up in Ottawa and dreamed of being a rock star, a lawyer, or an author. She happily achieved one of these goals with her picture book Everyone is Welcome and her chapter book Every Little Bit Olive Tran, the first of the Olive Tran series. She works in book publishing and lives with her family in Toronto, Ontario.
About the Illustrator
Christine Wei
Christine Wei is a Taiwanese artist living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Major in Illustration. Christine's work often draws inspiration from sentiment, life stories, and nature-inspired mark-makings. She loves creating art with a variety of mediums to convey relatable narratives in dynamic perspectives.
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