{"id":9060,"date":"2017-11-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2017-11-14T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:27:23","slug":"her-luck-foretold-by-three-pennies-by-melanie-crowder-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9060","title":{"rendered":"Her luck foretold by Three Pennies? by Melanie Crowder (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookAsk the pennies, get the answer.
\nAlways 3 pennies, always Mom’s pocket book of I Ching<\/a><\/em>,
\nMom should be her answer, but where?<\/p>\n

So-quiet Marin has bounced around the foster care system<\/a> so long.
\nYoung owl’s injury has kept him in city, away from big trees for so long.
\nEarth beneath their city has stayed in tension for so long… too long.<\/p>\n

All children need loving homes – too much to ask?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Three Pennies \/ Melanie Crowder. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Foggy San Francisco – where any moment can bring an earthquake or the right home or a loving family – young Marin searches for her birth mother, and a wounded owl feels the faraway forest calling him…small beings trying to find their right place in the big city.<\/p>\n

From foster home to foster home, quiet 11-year-old Marin seeks answers daily from the I Ching book of changes left behind by her mother seven years ago.<\/p>\n

Silently gliding in the night sky, a young owl feels his wounded wing become stronger and soon may leave this not-forest place.<\/p>\n

How can Dr. Lucy become her parent when Marin knows she must find her birth mother?
\nWill young owl go to the giant trees of his ancestors or stay here to watch the small girl?
\nWhen will the slowly moving rocks under the city finally slide too far?<\/p>\n

Many voices – Marin, the owl, lonely Dr. Lucy, social worker Gilda, the earth beneath the city – tell this story of loss, love, and hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ask the pennies, get the answer. Always 3 pennies, always Mom’s pocket book of I Ching, Mom should be her answer, but where? So-quiet Marin has bounced around the foster care system so long. Young owl’s injury has kept him in city, away from big trees for so long. Earth beneath their city has stayed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9062,"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":[47,237,19],"tags":[90,123,272,22,7,4,105,11,5,16,18,43,49,184,15,21,35,8],"class_list":["post-9060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-adoption","tag-animals","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/three-pennies-9781481471879_hr.jpg?fit=1400%2C2119&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060","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=9060"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9066,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions\/9066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}