{"id":9067,"date":"2017-11-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9067"},"modified":"2023-04-01T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T14:38:09","slug":"dad-dad-i-am-right-where-you-left-me-by-calla-devlin-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9067","title":{"rendered":"Dad? Dad? I am Right Where You Left Me! by Calla Devlin (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookMissing after earthquake,
\nDad’s been kidnapped!
\nCIA says don’t interfere<\/a>…<\/p>\n

No way that photographer<\/a> Charlotte and Mom will sit on their hands and wait for Dad to be freed, some far-off day!<\/p>\n

What a crazy time to fall in love, to sidestep friends’ advice to ignore Josh, to have senior year deadlines looming while waiting and waiting to hear about her journalist father!<\/p>\n

Read the first pages here<\/a> (free, courtesy of the publisher), then ask for this Sept. 2017 release at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> – remember, Small Business Saturday<\/a> is Nov. 25th!<\/p>\n

When is it time to take matters into your own hands?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Right Where You Left Me \/ Calla Devlin. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017.\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 Charlotte’s reporter dad goes missing in Ukraine after an earthquake, she’s ready to jump on the next plane and search for him – until the CIA says he’s been kidnapped by rebels, and any interference by the San Francisco teen or her Russian-born mom will doom him.<\/p>\n

Dad’s disappearance shatters her senior year planning college together with best friend Emma and her contentment as school newspaper photographer (on staff with long-time crush Josh!), and Charlotte fears that Mom may retreat into depression that even baking and baking won’t prevent.<\/p>\n

Why can’t the ransom be paid to free Dad?
\nWill Mom ever fully recover from losing Charlotte’s big sister to crib death?
\nIs Emma right that dating Josh would harm Charlotte’s future?<\/p>\n

Love and loss continue to intertwine in Charlotte’s life, as she pushes past her own cautious nature to discover which expectations are worth leaving behind – for her happiness and her family’s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missing after earthquake, Dad’s been kidnapped! CIA says don’t interfere… No way that photographer Charlotte and Mom will sit on their hands and wait for Dad to be freed, some far-off day! What a crazy time to fall in love, to sidestep friends’ advice to ignore Josh, to have senior year deadlines looming while waiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9068,"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":[90,22,105,11,20,5,70,16,250,18,40,44,43,71,39,49,184,274,15,153,9,21,35,33,58,3,313,8],"class_list":["post-9067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-disaster","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-photography","tag-relationships","tag-russia","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-ukraine","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/right-where-you-left-me-9781481486996_hr.jpg?fit=1399%2C2114&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067","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=9067"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13744,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions\/13744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}