{"id":4570,"date":"2014-08-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T16:18:23","slug":"looking-back-at-crazy-school-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4570","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at crazy school days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you read every BooksYALove recommendation this summer? No?<\/p>\n<p>Well, be sure to check out these two very different books about school that you might have missed (click on the title link to open its page in a new tab\/window):<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cleopatra-in-Space1-201x300.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4571\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=4571\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cleopatra-in-Space1-201x300.jpg?fit=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"201,300\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cleopatra-in-Space1-201x300.jpg?fit=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4571\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cleopatra-in-Space1-201x300.jpg?resize=181%2C270\" alt=\"book cover of Target Practice: Cleopatra in Space by Mike Maihack published by Graphix\" width=\"181\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vigilante-Poets.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3802\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=3802\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vigilante-Poets.jpg?fit=300%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,450\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vigilante-Poets.jpg?fit=300%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3802\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vigilante-Poets-200x300.jpg?resize=181%2C272\" alt=\"book cover of Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer published by Knopf Books for Young Readers\" width=\"181\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vigilante-Poets.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vigilante-Poets.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Target Practice, by Mike Maihack (book review) \u2013 Cleopatra in Space! Talking cats! Alien war!\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3781\">Target Practice<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0 by Mike Maihack &#8211; Great combo in this graphic novel with talking cats, aliens, and the Queen of the Nile as a curious teen.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Hattemer&#8217;s <a title=\"Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy, by Kate Hattemer (book review) \u2013 reality TV + high school = yikes!\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3710\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy<\/em><\/a> pits those who think &#8220;For Art&#8217;s Sake&#8221; reality show is their path to success against the kids who think it&#8217;s ruining their school.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that you still have time to enter the free giveaway for an autographed copy of <a title=\"Green Teen Cookbook \u2013 book review &amp; giveaway!\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4476\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Green Teen Cookbook<\/em><\/a> from Zest Books. Go to my original recommendation <a title=\"Green Teen Cookbook \u2013 book review &amp; giveaway!\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4476\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and comment by\u00a011:59 pm Central Daylight Time on Sunday, 31 August 2014 to be entered. I&#8217;ll toss all the comments into Randomizer when I get back from #IASL2014 in Moscow, and we&#8217;ll see who the lucky winner is!<\/p>\n<p>p.s. Do either of these schools resemble yours?<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you read every BooksYALove recommendation this summer? No? Well, be sure to check out these two very different books about school that you might have missed (click on the title link to open its page in a new tab\/window): Target Practice,\u00a0 by Mike Maihack &#8211; Great combo in this graphic novel with talking cats, [&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":[89,19,80,51],"tags":[124,22,4,11,45,20,5,16,46,86,67,15,9,35,3,6,53,8],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternate-history","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","category-mystery","tag-art","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-funny","tag-music","tag-outer-space","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-artist","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\/4570","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=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}