{"id":291,"date":"2009-07-26T21:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2009-07-26T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T02:26:12","slug":"king-of-the-screwups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/291","title":{"rendered":"King of the Screwups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kotsu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-292\" title=\"kotsu\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kotsu.jpg?w=212\" alt=\"kotsu\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kotsu.jpg 655w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kotsu-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Going, K.L.\u00a0 <em>King of the Screwups<\/em>.\u00a0 Harcourt, 2009.\u00a0 978-0-15-206258-3.\u00a0 $17.00.\u00a0 Grades 8 to 12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>K.L. Going&#8217;s latest novel is a study in stereotypes, and how they really don&#8217;t necessarily apply\u00a0 to\u00a0 everyone.\u00a0 Liam is an extremely popular high school senior with a extremely successful executive dad and former\u00a0 supermodel for a mom.\u00a0 Liam is more like his mom&#8211;good taste in clothing exquisite social skills, and straight. \u00a0\u00a0 Liam screws up one too many times, so after\u00a0 a night of binge drinking with a pretty girl,\u00a0 he is exiled to living in a trailer with his uncle in a tiny town in upstate New York.\u00a0 Fortunately for Liam, and the reader, things are not what they seem.\u00a0\u00a0 Liam&#8217;s\u00a0 gay uncle is an aging glam rocker who is messy and has no fashion sense, but he does have\u00a0 a heart of gold. \u00a0 His uncle&#8217;s friends and the cute girl living next door help Liam find himself and learn to deal with his over-bearing\u00a0 father.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll find yourself cheering for Liam to work things out with his family and to realize that he&#8217;s not a screw-up, just trying to be something he&#8217;s not, which is to be like his dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going, K.L.\u00a0 King of the Screwups.\u00a0 Harcourt, 2009.\u00a0 978-0-15-206258-3.\u00a0 $17.00.\u00a0 Grades 8 to 12. K.L. Going&#8217;s latest novel is a study in stereotypes, and how they really don&#8217;t necessarily apply\u00a0 to\u00a0 everyone.\u00a0 Liam is an extremely popular high school senior with a extremely successful executive dad and former\u00a0 supermodel for a mom.\u00a0 Liam is more [&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":[129,135],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-k-l-going","tag-king-of-the-screwups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}