{"id":7388,"date":"2016-07-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:39:51","slug":"this-is-the-story-of-you-by-beth-kephart-book-review-super-storm-life-not-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7388","title":{"rendered":"This is the Story of You, by Beth Kephart (book review) – super storm, life not as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookFinally, the tourists are gone.
\nAt last, slurpees, school, and shore time for best friends.
\nBut the storm<\/a> ignores the weather predictions…<\/p>\n

Ask for this lyrical April 2016 title at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> to see how Mira and her friends and her island home make it through the hurricane.<\/p>\n

A beautifully-written story of family, destruction, loss, and redemption – don’t miss it!<\/p>\n

**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: This is the Story of You \/ Beth Kephart. Chronicle Books, 2016.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: When a giant hurricane ravages their island off New Jersey, Mira and her high school friends must find ways to survive, share, and get through great tragedy.<\/p>\n

With her mom and chronically ill brother at their weekly hospital visit on the mainland, it’s just Mira in the island house that her aunt gave them when the hurricane changes course and smashes into Haven, tearing apart their lives as year-rounders.<\/p>\n

Who’s the new guy, wedging himself into their school class of 14?
\nIs Jasper Lee okay at the hospital?
\nWhy do Mom and her sister never talk to each other?<\/p>\n

The sudden appearance of new kitten Sterling, the way that loner Old Carmen pulls together the community after the storm breaks Haven in half, those sandy footsteps in Mira’s attic bedroom after the storm… Mira would trade all that she’s survived to have her mom and Jasper Lee there with her.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, the tourists are gone. At last, slurpees, school, and shore time for best friends. But the storm ignores the weather predictions… Ask for this lyrical April 2016 title at your local library or independent bookstore to see how Mira and her friends and her island home make it through the hurricane. A beautifully-written story […]<\/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":[19,51],"tags":[90,22,7,4,75,11,5,37,16,18,44,43,27,49,213,256,15,9,21,57,35,33,3,8,263],"class_list":["post-7388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mystery","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-new-jersey","tag-ocean","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-weather"],"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\/7388","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=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7572,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions\/7572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}