{"id":4359,"date":"2014-07-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2014-07-24T16:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:22:28","slug":"since-youve-been-gone-by-morgan-matson-book-review-daring-to-do-list-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"Since You’ve Been Gone, by Morgan Matson (book review) – daring to-do list & a mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>4. Break something.
\n8. The backless dress<\/a>. And somewhere to wear it.
\n11. Hug a Jamie.<\/p>\n

If timid Emily does all 13 daring (for her) things on live-in-the-moment Sloane’s epic summer list, will her suddenly-gone BFF return? Maybe with cute Frank’s help…<\/p>\n

You’ll want to grab this summer tale at your local local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> today so you can find out if Emily completes Sloane’s list and what she discovers about herself along the way.<\/p>\n

What would you add to a gotta-do-this list for your best friend?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Since You’ve Been Gone \/ Morgan Matson. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014. \u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: The letter with no return address brings Emily her only clue about Sloane’s sudden disappearance\u00a0 – a to-do list that her vivacious best friend promises will make an epic summer.<\/p>\n

With her parents in a playwriting haze and little brother Beckett sulking about missed vacation, Emily is on her own to check off the adventures on Sloane’s list – with help from her new running partner Frank (Captain Responsible to pal Collins), while his girlfriend is away for the summer.<\/p>\n

Ride a horse!? Kiss a stranger?! Facing her fears and making new friends in their coastal Connecticut town as she works through the list will surely bring back her best friend – but where is Sloane now? And what about her runs and shared playlists with Frank when summer ends? (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4. Break something. 8. The backless dress. And somewhere to wear it. 11. Hug a Jamie. If timid Emily does all 13 daring (for her) things on live-in-the-moment Sloane’s epic summer list, will her suddenly-gone BFF return? Maybe with cute Frank’s help… You’ll want to grab this summer tale at your local local library or […]<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[90,22,75,11,223,5,16,18,40,44,46,43,39,49,15,21,35,3,143,6,8],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-connecticut","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-theater","tag-travel","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\/4359","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=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}