{"id":429,"date":"2009-10-24T17:59:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2009-10-24T17:59:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:59:47","slug":"almost-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/429","title":{"rendered":"Almost Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-431\" title=\"almostperfect\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/almostperfect1.jpg?w=196\" alt=\"almostperfect\" width=\"157\" height=\"240\" \/>Katcher, Brian. <em>Almost Perfect<\/em>. 2009. 360 p. Delacorte. $17.99 (9780385736640) Gr. 10-12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>When outgoing and cute Sage moves to his small Missouri town, high school senior Logan is intrigued and surprised.\u00a0 Still reeling from the end of his three-year relationship, he finds himself attracted to Sage even as he becomes troubled and curious about her secret home life.\u00a0 Unable to date like her younger sister, Sage offers Logan friendship, but the two are unable to stop it from deepening.\u00a0 When Logan learns that Sage is transgendered, he embarks on an emotional roller coaster of fear, anger, empathy, and finally acceptance.\u00a0 Unfolding entirely from Logan&#8217;s point of view, the story is frequently humorous and almost always heart-wrenching.\u00a0 The writing is clear and engaging, and Logan&#8217;s voice is believable and authentic.<em> \u2013John Andrews <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katcher, Brian. Almost Perfect. 2009. 360 p. Delacorte. $17.99 (9780385736640) Gr. 10-12 When outgoing and cute Sage moves to his small Missouri town, high school senior Logan is intrigued and surprised.\u00a0 Still reeling from the end of his three-year relationship, he finds himself attracted to Sage even as he becomes troubled and curious about her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,44],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-almost-perfect","tag-brian-katcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}