Middle Grade Reading for June
Summer is here, and here are some good choices for middle grade summer reading... Joy McCullough is the author of the new novel in verse Kestrel Takes Flight . When I asked her about how she created her protagonist, a girl named Kestrel, she said : " For me, character creation is about being honest to the circumstances the character is in. So I created a girl who had been raised in an extremely isolated, controlling way, and then I pulled her out of that situation and into a completely different way of life and tried to honestly portray how I thought she would react. Liv Mae Morris's new novel is called The Last Dragon House . I asked her about how she created the world in which the story is set, and she said : " A lot of it is pretty obviously inspired by the real world and real history, particularly labor rights movements in the United States and Europe. The kingdom of Aldea, though, isn’t precisely either of those places; it has its own history, which is why it’s aes...
