Shoals and small islands, home to colonies of mussels and sand dollars that stood on end in soldier-like rows, were revealed. When the tide was out, the beach was mud, pocked with pickleweed and eelgrass. He watched seals tumble in the water and fished for perch and small halibut. Phil would row his small boat out and read comic books until his nose was sunburned and his empty stomach growled. There was swimming and surfing, and children went without shoes from June until September, and their feet grew calloused and summer wide. The warm bay water lapped at the sand when the tide was in. Tell us about how this book came to be.įor more than fifty years, I heard my husband’s stories about growing up on the bay side of San Diego’s Mission Beach, long before it was dredged and turned into a popular resort. Today Karen will talk to us about her newest book, War and Millie McGonigle (Knopf, 2021).Ĭongratulations on the release of War and Millie McGonigle. She is the author of Newbery Medal winner The Midwife’s Apprentice (Clarion, 1995), the Newbery Honor book Catherine Called Birdy (Clarion, 1994) among many other prize-winning historical fiction novels. Today we welcome Karen Cushman to Cynsations.
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