Recommended Reading: “Dragonfly Song” by Wendy Orr

Sometimes you read a book that bowls you over — for me, Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr (author of Nim’s Island among many other titles) is definitely one of those books.

Dragonfly Songis Junior fiction and what I would describe as “legendary history”, i.e. it draws on what we know of real history, but also invokes the stuff of legends, in this case those of Bronze Age Greece/Crete, and includes at least a hint of magic.

The book tells the story of Aissa, the daughter of a priestess-queen who is...