Middle Grade Reading for September
Hi everyone. School is back in session and it's time for some middle grade reading for September! I interviewed two MG authors for my blog, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, and here's what they had to say... On the fiction side, I interviewed Tiffany D. Jackson about her new novel, Ghost in the Night . I asked her what inspired the book, and how she created her character Harmony, and she said: "During a brunch with some Scholastic folks, I mentioned how my favorite pastime is to go on ghost tours in different cities, but mentioned that I always seemed to be the only black girl on the ghost tour. My editor overheard that and said, 'Now there’s a book.' So the story was born from a casual conversation." She added, "When thinking of potential main characters, I wanted a girl who was whip smart and determined yet vulnerable in her grief. Harmony was a natural fit." Turning to nonfiction, I interviewed Kate Messner about her new book History Smashers: T...
