{"id":278,"date":"2009-07-16T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-07-16T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:30:54","slug":"boy-minus-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/278","title":{"rendered":"Boy Minus Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;\"><span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;\"><span lang=\"EN\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boy_minus_girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-297\" title=\"boy_minus_girl\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boy_minus_girl.jpg?w=198\" alt=\"boy_minus_girl\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boy_minus_girl.jpg 212w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boy_minus_girl-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><strong>Uhlig, Richard.<span> <\/span><em>Boy Minus Girl<\/em>.<span> <\/span>2008 (December).<span> <\/span>246p.<span> <\/span>Knopf, $15.99.<span> <\/span>(978-0-375-83968-9).<span> <\/span>Gr. 8-10.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong> <\/strong><span> <\/span>Fourteen-year-old Lester\u2019s sole goal in  life is to be successful with girls, but even the tips he reads in <em>The Seductive Man<\/em> can\u2019t help him with  his friend Charity, who\u00a0reveals that she is a lesbian, and Regina, who uses  him to get her boyfriend back.<span> <\/span>The  mix of characters\u2014seemingly strait-laced parents, swinger Uncle Ray, Ray\u2019s  pregnant stripper girlfriend, and the town bully\u2014adds to the rich setting of a  conservative South during the 1980s.<span> <\/span>With Lester, the reader learns that nothing is as it seems, as everyone  grapples, sometimes unsuccessfully, with their own issues.<span> <\/span>Charity\u2019s acceptance of her lesbianism  is refreshing, and the protagonist gives this book a wide readership. \u00a0 <em>-Nel  Ward<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uhlig, Richard. Boy Minus Girl. 2008 (December). 246p. Knopf, $15.99. (978-0-375-83968-9). Gr. 8-10. Fourteen-year-old Lester\u2019s sole goal in life is to be successful with girls, but even the tips he reads in The Seductive Man can\u2019t help him with his friend Charity, who\u00a0reveals that she is a lesbian, and Regina, who uses him to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,207],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-boy-minus-girl","tag-richard-uhlig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}