{"id":7653,"date":"2016-07-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7653"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:36:43","slug":"this-is-not-a-werewolf-story-by-sandra-evans-book-review-spirit-animal-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7653","title":{"rendered":"This is Not a Werewolf Story, by Sandra Evans (book review) – spirit animal in the woods?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookFriday night escape,
\naway from boarding school,
\nback to his true form, running on four legs<\/a>…<\/p>\n

A hidden lighthouse, a sadistic gym teacher, White Deer Woods where Raul just knows Mom is waiting for him – a little further from the sadness that weighed Dad down to the floor when she was gone, out into the freedom of being his wolf-self again, wondering about the missing Fresnel lens and why the new kid Vincent is nice to him.<\/p>\n

Happy book birthday to this self-discovery story! Visit the publisher’s page here<\/a> and scroll down to read chapter one, as Raul meets the new kid and secrets begin to unfold.<\/p>\n

Have you ever felt like two beings at once?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0This Is Not a Werewolf Story \/ Sandra Evans. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: It’s okay that Dad doesn’t come over from Seattle to pick up Raul for the weekends – more time to explore White Deer Woods near the boarding school and learn more about his mom who disappeared.<\/p>\n

Tuffman, the three-time Olympian who now teaches PE at this small school for kids with individual learning needs? He’s not okay, not ever!<\/p>\n

There’s a real white deer in the woods, and magic, Raul learns. Magic that lets him become his true wolf-self (no, not a werewolf! that’s movie make-believe) and run with the beautiful wolf who must be his mother.<\/p>\n

When a cougar is sighted in the woods, Dean Swift restricts students to the main building – but how can Raul stay away?
\nThe abandoned lighthouse where his change-magic happens – where did its giant lens go?
\nMary Anne, Sparrow, new kid Vincent, even Mean Jack are on his side – but can he escape Tuffman’s torment?<\/p>\n

A white wolf, secrets that divide and bring together – Raul is a young man trying to unravel a hidden agenda at school as the secret in White Deer Woods might free him or doom him. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday night escape, away from boarding school, back to his true form, running on four legs… A hidden lighthouse, a sadistic gym teacher, White Deer Woods where Raul just knows Mom is waiting for him – a little further from the sadness that weighed Dad down to the floor when she was gone, out into […]<\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69,19,30,51,41],"tags":[90,22,7,4,11,20,70,16,18,40,44,46,43,38,49,184,85,15,9,21,35,33,8,84,273],"class_list":["post-7653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","category-legends","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-nature","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-us-author","tag-washington","tag-wolf"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653","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=7653"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12015,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions\/12015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}