This is a book discussion for kids and we will have a special guest at this month’s KRU, the author of Madsi the True, S.J. Taylor!

Date: Wednesday October 9th, 4:30-5:30pm

Location: 2nd floor, Board Room

Who can sign up? Kids in Grades 4-6.  The first 12 kids to sign up AND pickup their book will get a copy to keep.***

***The book will be published on Tues. 9/17/24. We will send an email out to all who are signed up once the copies of Madsi the True are in. Books could possibly come in earlier than 9/17.

Due to high demand for this title, we ask that you pickup your book within 5 days of receiving an email that the books are in and being held at the 2nd Floor Kids Desk.

How does sign up work:

Once you’ve been emailed the books are in:  pick up your copy of the book from the 2nd Floor Kid’s Desk: Mon.-Thurs. 10-8:30 PM, Fri. & Sat. 10-5 PM.

Read the book and show up to the in person discussion and you get to keep the book!

To be fair, if you don’t show up, you have to return the book.

What is this book, Madsi the True, about?

A fantasy adventure set in 1700s Norway, a girl and her unlikely companions brave the wilds and encounter legendary creatures as they seek to rescue her sister from the Northern Lights.

Madsi has always loved the stories that her clever sister, Lisbet, told her late at night in their cabin-until Lisbet disappeared in the night, snatched away by the Northern Lights.

Madsi begs the Lights for her sister’s freedom-but a different girl falls to earth-and demands to be taken to a witch; they set off joined by a boy from the village.

Madsi has never thought of herself as brave, but as they will face wilds & monsters from tales. Will she be strong and find out the truth about her sister?

S.J. Taylor’s bio: 

S. J. Taylor writes stories steeped in folklore and magic, where young protagonists tackle big adventures and bigger questions. Although she grew up in Arizona’s desert, her heart yearns for the Nordic lands. When she’s not writing, she can often be found knitting yet another sweater (sweater weather is the best weather). She lives in Connecticut with her family.

She is the author of the short story “The Witch of Festa Falls,” part of the Being Ace anthology (Page Street, October 2023) as well as the middle grade historical fantasy Madsi the True (Atheneum, Fall 2024).