Zaila Avant-garde
@ZailaAvantgarde
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🐝🏆 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee CHAMPION 🤯. 📖 NYT Bestselling Author. #WorldRecordholder. Voted #Top40JugglersOf2021, 🌏 — 3rd place 🎉.
Joined September 2015
Had a really fun time talking with Stacey Abrams at the @BookmarksNC Festival. [📸: MJS Live Productions]
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#SummerVibes. I had a great summer working at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute in the Axel Lab. Beyond thankful to Daniella Garcia-Rosales, @TessaMontague, Richard Axel, Connor Gibbons, Eva Castagna, and everyone in the lab who welcomed me with open arms.
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Now 16, the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee champ Zaila Avant-garde has added author to her accomplishments, publishing the picture book “Words of Wonder From Z to A” and the memoir “It’s Not Bragging if It’s True: How to Be Awesome at Life.” https://t.co/9SoJsr5b0V
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🐝🏆 #Anniversary. July 8th, 2021. 🥳👋💞
Three Guinness World Records and now the national spelling bee champ! Congrats, Zaila—your hard work is paying off. We’re all proud of you.
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🐝🏆 #Anniversary. July 8th, 2021. 🥳👋💞
Brava, brava @Basketballasart! You make us all P-R-O-U-D! 👏🏾👏🏾
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Ran into @WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert tonight, 👀🏀💞. Thanks for the invite @WashMystics‼️ALWAYS a fun time!
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Spelling bee champ @ZailaAvantgarde adds picture-book author to her ever growing list of accomplishments. Illustrated by @kekkerz, WORDS OF WONDER FROM Z TO A is "in a word: Wonderful." Read our starred review. @randomhousekids
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A spelling-bee champ welcomes readers to the zesty, awesome world of wording wizardry.
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Just ONE WEEK away from the release of my new book, “Words of Wonder from Z to A” 🥳📖🎉! https://t.co/vj4XeP2lef
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Introduce students to her books and download free activities to accompany these great reads.
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Introduce students to her books and download free activities to accompany these great reads.
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Just realized Zaila the hooping spelling bee champ is the one dribbling in the YouTube TV commercial
the new Coolest Person In The World is 13-year old Zaila Avant-Garde, who is currently one of the final two spellers in the Spelling Bee and also holds the Guinness World Record for most basketballs simultaneously dribbled (6)
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Dev!!!‼️🏆🎉🎉🐝🎉🥳🥹🐝
UnBEElievable! #Speller36 Dev Shah representing the SNSB Region One Bee in Largo, Florida is the Champion of the 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee. His winning word? Psammophile. 🐝 #spellingbee
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💞👀⛹🏾♀️⛹🏾♀️⛹🏾♀️⛹🏾♀️...
More is better whether you’re dribbling basketballs like @ZailaAvantgarde or watching the @NBA Finals with YouTube TV: https://t.co/hsw7MsTq9U
#NBAFinals
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I got to hang out with the Boys and Girls Club of Hudson County last week! 💞💞
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🤯🥳🎉, New York Times Bestselling Author‼️Thank you to everyone for everything!!
Congratulations are in order! Congrats to—not one, not two, but THREE—authors with instant @nytimes bestsellers! @ZailaAvantgarde for her middle grade memoir, IT'S NOT BRAGGING IF IT'S TRUE, and dynamic duo @JazmynSimon and @DuleHill for their picture book, REPEAT AFTER ME. 🙌
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🥳 Just ONE more week❗️My first book releases on Tuesday, May 2nd. Thanks EVERYONE for always believing in me, 🙌. https://t.co/vj4XeP2lef
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