New Voice: Megan Jean Sovern on The Meaning of Maggie

By Cynthia Leitich Smith
for Cynsations

Megan Jean Sovern is the first-time author of The Meaning of Maggie (Chronicle, 2014). From the promotional copy:

Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield can’t stop thinking about Oreos and this is just one of her many conundrums. 

She also has two older sisters with bods that don’t stop and she has to wait to campaign for president for almost an entire quarter century.

Then in one summer, her conundrums triple when her father takes a fall at work. What happen...