{"id":10394,"date":"2019-04-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10394"},"modified":"2019-04-11T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:40:40","slug":"m-matt-movies-a-short-history-of-the-girl-next-door-by-jared-reck-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10394","title":{"rendered":"M = Matt &#038; movies &#038; A SHORT HISTORY OF THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, by Jared Reck (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"10540\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=10540\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Short-History.jpg?fit=298%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"298,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Short History\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Short-History.jpg?fit=298%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Short-History.jpg?resize=199%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"book cover of A Short History of the Girl Next Door, by Jared Reck. Published by Ember | recommended on BooksYALove.com\" class=\"wp-image-10540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Short-History.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Short-History.jpg?resize=99%2C150&amp;ssl=1 99w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Short-History.jpg?w=298&amp;ssl=1 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If his life were a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writersstore.com\/how-to-write-a-screenplay-a-guide-to-scriptwriting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"movie (opens in a new tab)\">movie<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt would be a basketball standout,<br>Best friend Tabby would know that he loved her, <br>and the accident would never have happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But life isn&#8217;t scripted, and Matt has to somehow get through his junior year without redheaded, Nerds-fanatic Tabby right next door or being called up to the varsity basketball team\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you react when life goes off-script?<br> **kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>:  A Short History of the Girl Next Door \/ Jared Reck. Alfred A. Knopf Books, hardcover 2017, Ember paperback 2018. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"author site (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jaredreckbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">author site<\/a>]  [<a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/549849\/a-short-history-of-the-girl-next-door-by-jared-reck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"publisher site (opens in a new tab)\">publisher site<\/a>]  Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If his life were a movie\u2026 Matt would be a basketball standout,Best friend Tabby would know that he loved her, and the accident would never have happened. But life isn&#8217;t scripted, and Matt has to somehow get through his junior year without redheaded, Nerds-fanatic Tabby right next door or being called up to the varsity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10,90,130,75,20,5,37,18,40,44,43,39,184,9,21,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-10394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-basketball","tag-brothers","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-mothers","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10543,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions\/10543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}