SLIME, STEM & JOY MEET in New Graphic Novel by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Disney's Descendants, Melissa de la Cruz and Mike Johnston Get ready to mix, squish, and slime your way into a whole new world of friendship, dripping with joy, fun, and charm. Meet Daisy Sterling-Chan, an eleven-year-old with a serious slime obsession and a love of STEM. Daisy idolizes the brilliant slime scientist Miss Joon, who mysteriously disappeared ten years ago. But Daisy thinks Miss Joon is still out there, along with Sloomoo, the playful slime-based life form. Can Daisy bring back the magic? With cute, cool, quick-thinking Ren Tanaka, Daisy discovers that making slime is easy, but making friends can get messy. Sloomoo: Making Friends is the first graphic novel from the beloved, award-winning team of Melissa de la Cruz and Mike Johnston and the slime-filled universe of Sloomoo. Read it to learn about creativity and connection, and to discover the very things that make you YOU! Slime on. Friendship ahead. About Sloomoo Institute Sloomoo Institute is a real place. It’s a slime-inspired universe, oozing with #satisfying. Just imagine thousands of gallons of handmade slime. Everywhere. You can walk on slime, slingshot slime, design your own slime (over 4 million combos!), and discover never-ending textures and scents. There’s an ASMR sound bath, a squishy pit, and a huge wall where you can leave your mark with slime. There are locations throughout the country where everyone is welcome. They look like the Sloomoo Institute in the book! When you visit, be ready to make some major memories. You may just spot Sloomoo too!
Author
Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including The Au Pairs series, the Blue Bloods series, the Ashleys series, the Angels on Sunset Boulevard series and the semi-autobiographical novel Fresh off the Boat. Her books for adults include the novel Cat’s Meow, the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and the tongue-in-chic handbooks How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less and The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-inch heels and Faux-Pas. She has worked as a fashion and beauty editor and has written for many publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Allure, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney’s, Teen Vogue, CosmoGirl! and Seventeen. She has also appeared as an expert on fashion, trends and fame for CNN, E! and FoxNews. Melissa grew up in Manila and moved to San Francisco with her family, where she graduated high school salutatorian from The Convent of the Sacred Heart. She majored in art history and English at Columbia University (and minored in nightclubs and shopping!). She now divides her time between New York and Los Angeles, where she lives in the Hollywood Hills with her husband and daughter.
