It was a wonderful experience, and I am still very close to my host family. When I was fifteen, I spent a year in Australia as an exchange student. I saw a deer crossing sign and thought it was a picture of a goat! My mom spent time quizzing me on American money. I didn’t really know American culture or slang. I really was an outsider when I entered first grade here in the US. I remember my mother telling me New Mexico was a desert, but after three years in Saudi, I found this hard to believe everything in New Mexico seemed green in comparison. From Saudi we came back to the US, this time to New Mexico. I was born in Wisconsin and moved to Saudi Arabia when I was three (my dad was a civil engineer and helped to build an army base there). Tell us a little about yourself, where you’ve lived, and how you became a writer. From your biography it sounds like you’ve lived in some interesting places. Novel, written in beautiful and riveting verse, gives readers a strong But she'sĭetermined to find her way home again. Struggles with reading at school come back to haunt her. While fighting to survive, May's memories of her Sod house, isolated from family and neighbors, May must prepare for the Separated from her family by 15 long, unfamiliar miles. She wants to contribute, but it's hard to be
Is helping out on a neighbor's Kansas prairie homestead-just untilĬhristmas, says Pa. It's been too long to expect them to return. And Caroline did an amazing job keeping the plot really moving along. I no longer have any reservations about trying another one. This was my second book in verse and I found it very easy, enjoyable read. I read it in two days and would have finished it in one if I hadn’t started it sooner that night. Caroline had told me it was a fast read and she wasn’t kidding. Today I’m excited to interview Caroline Starr Rose whose debut book MAY B. She has a great blog and is a dedicated Middle Grade Mondayīlogger so I hope you'll go check out her blog and follow her here. This Fall, is six followers short of reaching her 50 follower goal for Michael Gettel-Gilmartin has an AGENT! Isn't that awesome? Go congratulate him on his blog here.Īlso want to mention that Jennifer Rumberger who just started blogging First I want to shout out about some exciting news for other Middle Grade Monday bloggers who are also followers.
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