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I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her
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Finished the teaching week with a 2-hour workshop/ seminar for our new team-taught MA module 'World'. The session asks 'Who writes the world' and includes Ovid, Met Books 1 and 15, a smattering of Lucretius, a discussion of Wheatley's Niobe, @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social 's 2022 Ovid #OvidAlert
Show PostHmm, my first book, The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle started with an elderly lady, but it's only a couple of years younger than Rooftoppers. The Bletchley Riddle? Starts with a riddle featuring an adult before characters are introduced?
Show PostFrances Hardinge does this quite a lot. I had a look at her latest, and yes, Traitor's Nest opens with an adult and you don't meet the main character until chapter two. But I don't know if you'd call her middle grade. (Some of hers are pitched younger than others and I haven't read them all.)
Show PostWould The Wild Robot count? Like Rooftoppers it opens with a shipwreck. Then chapter 2 is from the point of view of some otters. (Adult otters, but very ottery otters.) You don't meet Roz until chapter 3. www.amazon.com/Wild-Robot-P...
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