{"id":1366,"date":"2022-01-05T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:04:41","slug":"book-reviews-small-town-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/book-reviews-small-town-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Reviews &#8211; Small Town Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Those Kids From Fawn Creek <\/strong>by Erin Entrada Kelly (Out 3\/8\/22)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"331\" height=\"499\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fawn-creek-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fawn-creek-2.jpg 331w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fawn-creek-2-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fawn-creek-2-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This book, for the middle grade age range, is about a class of twelve in a tiny Louisiana town, and their reactions when a thirteenth class member arrives in town.  Orchid comes across as mysterious and urbane as she talks about her past in Paris and New York City, and her presence has a positive effect on nearly every group of kids in the class &#8211; until she has a run in with one of the popular girls.  Will Orchid win over her enemies?  And is she really what she seems?  Find out this March!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All My Rage<\/strong> by Sabaa Tahir (Out 3\/1\/22)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"332\" height=\"499\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/All-my-rage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1370\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/All-my-rage.jpg 332w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/All-my-rage-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/All-my-rage-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All My Rage is a book for teens (though very much enjoyed by this adult) about a Pakistani family living in a small desert town.  Salahudin has a lot of problems in his life.  His mother has just died, and his father is an alcoholic who leaves his son to run the family motel.  Salahudin&#8217;s best friend, Noor, also has her problems &#8211; she wants to attend college and become a doctor, but her uncle wants her to stay behind and run his liquor store while he goes to university.  Facing certain financial ruin, Salahudin starts to sell drugs &#8211; starting with his mother&#8217;s painkillers and progressing to heroin.  Meanwhile, he has to keep his dealing from Noor as he realizes that he was mistaken in turning away her romantic advances the previous year&#8230;After a school bully sets off a series of events that leads to Salahudin being busted, both kids have hard choices to make.  This book is wonderfully paced and the characters are so vivid, I nearly cried at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those Kids From Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly (Out 3\/8\/22) This book, for the middle grade age range, is about a class of twelve in a tiny Louisiana town, and their reactions when a thirteenth class member arrives in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/book-reviews-small-town-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}