{"id":7922,"date":"2016-09-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2016-09-30T07:35:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:35:23","slug":"littlest-bigfoot-by-jennifer-weiner-book-review-being-themselves-little-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7922","title":{"rendered":"Littlest Bigfoot, by Jennifer Weiner (book review) &#8211; being themselves, little &#038; big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7937\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=7937\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Littlest-Bigfoot.jpg?fit=1399%2C2114&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1399,2114\" 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=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Littlest-Bigfoot.jpg?fit=678%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7937\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Littlest-Bigfoot-199x300.jpg?resize=201%2C304\" alt=\"book cover of The Littlest Bigfoot by Jennifer Weiner published by Aladdin | recommended on BooksYALove.com\" width=\"201\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Littlest-Bigfoot.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Littlest-Bigfoot.jpg?resize=678%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 678w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Littlest-Bigfoot.jpg?w=1399&amp;ssl=1 1399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>Millie is too loud,<br \/>\nAlice is too strong,<br \/>\nIf their families only understood them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The woods outside Standish hide the Yare beings from no-fur humans, until an experiential school moves in just across the lake, close enough that Millie can hear young teen voices, ones that the tiniest <a href=\"http:\/\/bfro.net\/gdb\/\">Bigfoot<\/a> would love to meet and sing with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read an excerpt from <em>The Littlest Bigfoot<\/em> at <em>USA Today<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/books\/2016\/03\/24\/jennifer-weiner-the-littlest-bigfoot-excerpt-cover-reveal\/82117500\/\">here<\/a> to see why Alice is sure that her eighth school in 8 years will be not-so-good &#8211; of course, she doesn&#8217;t know that she&#8217;ll meet Millie soon!<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to visit the book&#8217;s wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/believeinbigfoot.com\/\">website<\/a> to explore the world that Millie, Alice, and Bigfoot-hunting Jeremy share.<\/p>\n<p>Share your unexpected friendship in the comments, please!<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>: The\u00a0Littlest Bigfoot (Littlest Bigfoot, book 1) \/ Jennifer Weiner. Aladdin, 2016. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferweiner.com\/thinklittle\">author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Littlest-Bigfoot\/Jennifer-Weiner\/The-Littlest-Bigfoot\/9781481470742\">publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eR79qQSNrfM\">book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My book talk<\/strong>: Sent away to untraditional school, Alice just wants to make a friend, but the 13 year old New Yorker never imagined that she&#8217;d meet petite Millie, a little Bigfoot with a big singing voice, or be chased by Bigfoot-hunting Jeremy from the nearby middle school, or find a way to stand up to bullying once and for all.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"714\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eR79qQSNrfM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(One of 6,000 books recommended on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abookandahug.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 1200px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 1198px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millie is too loud, Alice is too strong, If their families only understood them&#8230; The woods outside Standish hide the Yare beings from no-fur humans, until an experiential school moves in just across the lake, close enough that Millie can hear young teen voices, ones that the tiniest Bigfoot would love to meet and sing [&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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[19,30],"tags":[22,4,11,20,5,16,18,44,46,43,86,186,15,9,21,35,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-7922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-legends","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"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\/7922","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=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7962,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions\/7962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}