Richland Library Main
Smack Dab in the Middle of Deckle Edge: YA Mystery with Jo Watson Hackl
Saturday, March 23, 2019 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Part of the Deckle Edge Literary Festival 2019
A conversation with Jo Watson Hackl, author of Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe.
About the book:
In Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, 12-year-old Cricket and a field cricket named Charlene find adventure in an overgrown ghost town in Electric City, Mississippi. They follow a thirty-year-old clue trail left by an eccentric artist in search of a secret room that may or may not exist–all to try to win back Cricket’s run-away mother. Cricket must use her wits and just a smidgen of luck to live off the land in a Mississippi winter and put together the pieces of an increasingly baffling puzzle. As she works toward uncovering the final clues, Cricket meets the reclusive last resident of the ghost town, enlists the help of a poetry-loving dog, and takes up a touch of grave-robbing.