Middle Grade Reading for August!
Time to check out some MG books for August! Here are some excerpts from interviews I did with MG authors about their new books, for my blog, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb ... Emma Otheguy's new novel is called Adventure in the City of Stories . It's a companion to her novel Cousins in the Time of Magic . In the first book, her characters traveled to 1862; in this one, they visit 1930. I asked her how she'd compare the two time periods, and she said : "I had a lot of fun writing about 1930 because it is much more familiar. The New York City skyline looked different than it does now, of course, but major landmarks like the Empire State Building were already being built. Simply put, the world in 1862 was much more different and required much more intensive research to write about. It also helped that I was writing about New York City, where I live, for this book–it was very easy to hop over to the New York Public Library for research, and many of the places I was wri...
