{"id":512,"date":"2009-10-29T22:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-10-29T22:04:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T03:04:19","slug":"blue-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/512","title":{"rendered":"Blue Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-513\" title=\"blue boy\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blue-boy.jpg?w=199\" alt=\"blue boy\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blue-boy.jpg 333w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blue-boy-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/>Satyal,  Rakesh.\u00a0 <strong><em>Blue Boy<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 2009. 276 p. Kensington, $15.00 (978-0-7582-3136-9). Gr. 9-12.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this  coming-of-age and coming out story, Kiran Sharma is a 12-year-old  Indian-American kid who likes to play with his mother\u2019s makeup, attend ballet  classes, and play with dolls.\u00a0 Awkward and beginning to sense his  orientation, he feels like an outcast with his parents and their all-Indian  world, and also with his classmates at the almost all-white Martin Van Buren  Elementary School he attends.\u00a0 When the annual talent show at the  school is announced, Kiran decides to create and perform a ballet based on the  blue-skinned Hindu deity, Krishnaji, in the hope to impress his parents and  schoolmates.\u00a0 As he prepares his costume, practices playing the  flute like Krishnaji, and creates dance moves with a Whitney Houston song as  background music, Kiran comes to believe that the reason he has trouble fitting  in with his family and peers is because he \u00a0really is  different\u2014that he is the reincarnation of Krishnaji.\u00a0 As his skin  literally turns a bluish tint, Kiran\u2019s illusions grow until the climatic talent  show and his realization that it is not necessary for everyone to be the same  and that a person\u2019s peculiarities are unique treasures.\u00a0 Funny and  tragic, Kiran is a character hard to forget.\u00a0 <em>\u2013Victor Schill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satyal, Rakesh.\u00a0 Blue Boy.\u00a0 2009. 276 p. Kensington, $15.00 (978-0-7582-3136-9). Gr. 9-12. In this coming-of-age and coming out story, Kiran Sharma is a 12-year-old Indian-American kid who likes to play with his mother\u2019s makeup, attend ballet classes, and play with dolls.\u00a0 Awkward and beginning to sense his orientation, he feels like an outcast with his [&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":[40,205],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-blue-boy","tag-rakesh-satyal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}