{"id":436,"date":"2009-10-25T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2009-10-25T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:43:58","slug":"bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/436","title":{"rendered":"Bait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-438\" title=\"bait\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bait1.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"bait\" width=\"162\" height=\"216\" \/>Sanchez, Alex. <em>Bait. <\/em>Simon &amp; Schuster. 2009. $16.99 (9-781416-937722). Gr 7-12.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How boring it would be if books were perfect; they\u2019d leave nothing for the reader to discuss and debate. Fortunately Sanchez\u2019 latest \u2013 about a teenage boy who has been sexually abused by his stepfather &#8212; is not perfect and, accordingly, it invites a lot of discussion, not all of it positive. There are still too few books about boys who are the victims of male sexual abuse so this book deserves consideration, especially since the protagonist\u2019s probation officer turns out to be \u2013 well, read it for yourself.\u00a0 <em>\u2013 Michael Cart<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanchez, Alex. Bait. Simon &amp; Schuster. 2009. $16.99 (9-781416-937722). Gr 7-12. How boring it would be if books were perfect; they\u2019d leave nothing for the reader to discuss and debate. Fortunately Sanchez\u2019 latest \u2013 about a teenage boy who has been sexually abused by his stepfather &#8212; is not perfect and, accordingly, it invites a [&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":[16,34],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-alex-sanchez","tag-bait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}