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Tonya Mezrich is co-author of the Charlie Numbers series, with the newest book: Charlie Numbers and the Woolly Mammoth hitting shelve November 2019. She attended Tufts University where she studied French Literature and Art History and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine where she studied dentistry. She later became a jewelry designer, a fashion designer and produced and cohosted the TV Show Style Boston. She recently launched a wildly successful half hour TV show on NESN called Boston’s Red Carpet with Tonya Mezrich featuring philanthropy and fashion as a follow up to her role as resident fashion expert at NBC Boston. She is co-author of Charlie Numbers and the Man in the Moon (2017), which was chosen as the required summer reading for all 6th graders in Boston Public Schools (2018), and required summer reading for all 4th graders (2019). The Charlie Numbers series is slated to be developed into a Film series with Ellen Pompeo of Gray’s Anatomy. Tonya is currently working on the 5th book in the Charlie Numbers empire as well as developing, producing and filming Boston’s Red Carpet. She and her husband Ben live in Boston with their two kids and a pug. You can follow her at @tonyamezrich.