{"id":46,"date":"2009-01-30T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T03:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-01-30T22:00:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T03:00:59","slug":"46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/46","title":{"rendered":"Girl, Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47\" title=\"Girl, Hero cover art\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/girl-hero.jpg\" alt=\"Girl, Hero cover art\" width=\"170\" height=\"250\" \/><strong>Jones, Carrie.\u00a0 <em>Girl, Hero<\/em>.\u00a0 2008.\u00a0 305p.\u00a0 Flux, $16.95. (978-0-7387-1051-8). Gr. 7-12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finding your way in high school can be scary, but with a secret friend like dead\u00a0 silver screen hero John Wayne at her side, high school freshman Lily is able to choose between trying out for cheerleader or the school musical. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lily&#8217;s decision is made when she lands a big part in the play, but now her best friend is jealous.\u00a0 Lily writes to John Wayne each day in an effort to make sense of the struggles her family is having&#8211;her divorced mother has started a relationship with a sleazy family friend, her brother-in-law is battering her sister, and a boy she thinks is cute tells her that everyone in town thinks her father is gay.&#8211;<em>Arla Jones<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jones, Carrie.\u00a0 Girl, Hero.\u00a0 2008.\u00a0 305p.\u00a0 Flux, $16.95. (978-0-7387-1051-8). Gr. 7-12 Finding your way in high school can be scary, but with a secret friend like dead\u00a0 silver screen hero John Wayne at her side, high school freshman Lily is able to choose between trying out for cheerleader or the school musical. Lily&#8217;s decision is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}