{"id":346,"date":"2009-09-01T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-09-01T11:05:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:05:56","slug":"losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/346","title":{"rendered":"Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/losers.jpg\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-347\" title=\"losers\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/losers.jpg?w=214\" alt=\"losers\" width=\"123\" height=\"247\" \/><\/strong><\/a><strong>Roth, Matthue.\u00a0 <em>Losers.<\/em> Scholastic Push, 2008.\u00a0 9780545068932.\u00a0 $8.99.\u00a0 Grades 8 -10.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jupiter Glazer \u00a0is a loser for too many reasons to list all of them here, but to summarize:\u00a0 he&#8217;s from another country, he has only one friend who&#8217;s a science geek, and he lives in a factory with his family in the warehouse district\u00a0of Philadelphia.\u00a0 He gets the opportunity to attend a fancy prep school, but he&#8217;s woefully lost.\u00a0\u00a0On the very first day of school, a big, scary guy named Hayes, \u00a0beats the crap out of him.\u00a0 Hayes continues to bully him right up until the day he begs Jupiter to take him downtown to meet guys he\u00a0can date.\u00a0 This short and sweet exploration of how kids who are different from the norm struggle through adolescence until they figure out who they are and how they fit into the universe.\u00a0 Jupiter&#8217;s experiences as a Russian immigrant help him to understand what his bully\/friend Hayes is going through trying to find &#8220;his people.&#8221;\u00a0 The author, Matthue Roth, \u00a0also published a memoir entitled Yom Kippur-a-go-go, which I can&#8217;t wait to read now! <em>&#8211;Arla Jones<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roth, Matthue.\u00a0 Losers. Scholastic Push, 2008.\u00a0 9780545068932.\u00a0 $8.99.\u00a0 Grades 8 -10. Jupiter Glazer \u00a0is a loser for too many reasons to list all of them here, but to summarize:\u00a0 he&#8217;s from another country, he has only one friend who&#8217;s a science geek, and he lives in a factory with his family in the warehouse district\u00a0of [&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":[147,165],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-losers","tag-matthue-roth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}