{"id":602,"date":"2009-11-08T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2009-11-08T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:47:00","slug":"crash-into-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/602","title":{"rendered":"Crash Into Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-603\" title=\"crash into me\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/crash-into-me.jpg?w=199\" alt=\"crash into me\" width=\"179\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/crash-into-me.jpg 333w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/crash-into-me-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/>Borris, Albert.\u00a0 <em>Crash into Me<\/em>.\u00a0 2009.\u00a0 257p.\u00a0 Simon Pulse, $16.99.\u00a0 (978-1-4169-7435-2).\u00a0 Gr. 10-12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four teenagers\u2014who connect on the internet\u2014take an odyssey across the United States to visit the sites of celebrity suicides before they kill themselves in Death Valley.\u00a0\u00a0 The four in the suicide pact couldn\u2019t be more different:\u00a0 isolated Owen, the narrator; lying Audrey, the only one of the four who actually didn\u2019t attempt suicide; Korean-American Jin-Ae, a scholarly lesbian; and alcoholic Frank, the driver.\u00a0 Their bonding from the closeness of the two weeks changes their self-perceptions and their need for death.\u00a0 Background is provided by past emails among them as they switch from totally depressive to finding hope in a future.\u00a0 A student assistance counselor, the author knows his characters and his audience and eloquently speaks to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borris, Albert.\u00a0 Crash into Me.\u00a0 2009.\u00a0 257p.\u00a0 Simon Pulse, $16.99.\u00a0 (978-1-4169-7435-2).\u00a0 Gr. 10-12. Four teenagers\u2014who connect on the internet\u2014take an odyssey across the United States to visit the sites of celebrity suicides before they kill themselves in Death Valley.\u00a0\u00a0 The four in the suicide pact couldn\u2019t be more different:\u00a0 isolated Owen, the narrator; lying Audrey, [&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":[15,55],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-albert-borris","tag-crash-into-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}