This episode is sponsored by Still a Work in Progress by Joe Knowles.

In a return to middle grade fiction, master of perspectives Joe Knowles depicts a younger sibling

struggling to maintain his everyday life when his older sister is in crisis.

Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade.

The girls are confusing, the homework is boring,

and even his friends are starting to bug him.

Not to mention that his older sister Emma has been acting pretty strange even though Noah thought

she'd been doing better ever since the thing they don't talk about. The only place

Noah really feels at peace is an art class with a block of clay in his hands.

As it becomes clear through Emma's ever strict is an art class with a block of clay in his hands.

As it becomes clear through Emma's ever stricter food rules and regulations that she's not

really doing any better at all, the normal seventh grade year Noah was hoping for begins to seem

pretty unattainable. In an affecting and realistic

novel with bright spots of humor, Joe Knowles captures the complexities of

navigating middle school while feeling hopeless in the face of a family crisis.

Still a work in progress is available wherever books are sold.

All right, welcome to another special edition of Book Right interviews, our Intermittent Now series

where we really get into the weeds with people who, unlike us, Rebecca and I and our co-host

actually know something about books and how they're made and what's going on and this one's about children's books and we've got two people have written for Book Riot, two people have just published this year their debut children's books.

Rita Mead, who a lot of you know from the from Book Rite and the dear Book

Nerd podcast from Brooklyn and then Minlay, who also wrote for Book Rite too, but was written for the New York Times having to post a bunch of people as well, bigger and better things than us.

Your book is called Let Me Finish, Min, right?

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