Currently Reading:
Fog Magic
By Julia L. Sauer...
Since I write for children, I also read children's middle grade and young adult novels.
I looked for information about Julia Sauer on the internet, and found these pages:
Remembering Julia
Julia Sauer
Little River (Little Valley's Prototype)
I've read Sauer's other Newbery Honor Book:
Light at Tern Rock
It is a great book to read to the kids just before Christmas! If you're not used to reading middle grade novels out loud to the kids - this is a good one to start with because it is shorter than most.
So is Fog Magic - I would guess about 25000 words. It was first published in 1943. The first line is "From the time she was a baby in her cradle, Greta had loved the fog." Now there's a good example of a sentence that would probably never be published these days. The "had" would be cut in an editorial hot flash. Novel writing is so much more competitive these days. It is imperative to know the rules of the road... and those have changed a lot since 1940.
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