{"id":12690,"date":"2022-03-21T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2022-03-18T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:14:21","slug":"almost-time-for-the-april-atozchallenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12690","title":{"rendered":"Almost time for the April #AtoZchallenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"251\" data-attachment-id=\"12691\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=12691\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ATZ-badge-2022-alt.jpg?fit=251%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"251,251\" 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=\"ATZ-badge-2022-alt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ATZ-badge-2022-alt.jpg?fit=201%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ATZ-badge-2022-alt.jpg?fit=251%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ATZ-badge-2022-alt.jpg?resize=251%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"#AtoZChallenge 2022 alternative badge\" class=\"wp-image-12691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ATZ-badge-2022-alt.jpg?w=251&amp;ssl=1 251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ATZ-badge-2022-alt.jpg?resize=201%2C201&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ATZ-badge-2022-alt.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The calendar is sliding toward April, so #AtoZChallenge is just ahead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be my 11th year of participating in the blogging challenge to post alphabetically themed entries throughout April (with Sundays off).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My 2022 #AtoZChallenge theme is&#8230; books beyond bestsellers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For y&#8217;all, this means a double-handful of new recommendations of middle-grade and young adult books, plus a few surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have time to sign up your blog for this free Challenge, too &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-to-zchallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I wrap up my 12th continuous year of recommending books &#8211; without giving away the endings, please let me know which April selections go on your wishlist to find at your <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/libraries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local library<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">independent bookstore<\/a> (remember &#8211; no affiliate links here &#8211; ever!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy reading to all! <br>**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The calendar is sliding toward April, so #AtoZChallenge is just ahead! This will be my 11th year of participating in the blogging challenge to post alphabetically themed entries throughout April (with Sundays off). My 2022 #AtoZChallenge theme is&#8230; books beyond bestsellers! For y&#8217;all, this means a double-handful of new recommendations of middle-grade and young adult [&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":[19,98],"tags":[10,55,111,31,56,35,53,8,61],"class_list":["post-12690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reflective","tag-a2z","tag-books","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-reading","tag-surprises","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"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\/12690","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=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12692,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions\/12692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}