{"id":8654,"date":"2017-05-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2017-05-17T09:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:23:31","slug":"asteroid-approaching-learning-to-swear-in-america-by-katie-kennedy-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8654","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid approaching?! Learning to Swear in America, by Katie Kennedy (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookJust ‘on loan’ from Moscow University,
\ntill JPL<\/a> can divert the asteroid…
\nis ‘forever’ a reasonable loan length?<\/p>\n

Russian physics prodigy Yuri is intent on winning the Nobel Prize, but working with NASA to prevent an asteroid from wiping out the Pacific Rim will keep him busy in California for a few weeks – not his last weeks on earth, he hopes! And then he meets Dovie…<\/p>\n

Find this funny and fierce July 2016 hardback release at your local library<\/a> or pre-order the July 2017 paperback from your favorite independent bookstore<\/a> (no affiliate links here – indie booksellers deserve all our business).<\/p>\n

If the end of our world was approaching, what would you do?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Learning to Swear in America \/ Katie Kennedy. Bloomsbury USA Childrens,’s Books 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Yuri will just return to Russia to continue his antimatter research after helping NASA prevent an asteroid from obliterating the US West Coast, but when the 17 year old physics prodigy discovers that they might not let him leave California…<\/p>\n

Eighteen days to impact – Yuri meets the asteroid team he will work with…and a lovely mysterious girl.<\/p>\n

Yes, he will take Dovie to her prom (such a strange American high school custom) and visit her odd hippie family (more strange customs) and find a way to stop the asteroid (if only his team would listen to him).<\/p>\n

No, the young PhD won’t let anyone at Moscow University steal his research toward the Nobel Prize or be forced to stay in California against his will!<\/p>\n

Counting down the days to impact – the math, the physics, the public doesn’t know true danger… as Yuri falls in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just ‘on loan’ from Moscow University, till JPL can divert the asteroid… is ‘forever’ a reasonable loan length? Russian physics prodigy Yuri is intent on winning the Nobel Prize, but working with NASA to prevent an asteroid from wiping out the Pacific Rim will keep him busy in California for a few weeks – not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8655,"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],"tags":[90,22,7,105,11,20,5,37,16,196,250,18,44,46,43,71,39,194,184,67,15,153,91,21,35,33,58,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-disability","tag-disaster","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-military","tag-mothers","tag-outer-space","tag-relationships","tag-russia","tag-science","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Learning-to-Swear-in-America.jpg?fit=420%2C634&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","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=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}