{"id":334,"date":"2013-03-23T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2013-03-23T13:08:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:08:29","slug":"book-review-a-girl-called-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/book-review-a-girl-called-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: A Girl Called Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fict-quuirk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-335\" alt=\"A Girl Called Problem\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fict-quuirk-197x300.jpg\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fict-quuirk-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fict-quuirk.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>A GIRL CALLED PROBLEM by Katie Quirk<br \/>\nEerdmans Books, April 2013<\/p>\n<p>Exotic location and sympathetic, real characters combine to provide excellent entertainment in a book aimed at students aged 10-14.\u00a0 Grandmothers might enjoy it too, as did I.\u00a0 The place is Litongo, Tanzania, Africa, in 1970.\u00a0 Residents of this rural village speak Sukuma as well as Swahili, and the heroine is a 13-year-old girl called Shida, which means &#8220;Problem&#8221;.\u00a0 Superstitions and traditions rule their lives, but Shida has a natural ability to heal and a yearning for an education.\u00a0 A politically dictated move of the entire village to another one called Nija Panda promises opportunities for Shida, but problems follow her there and escalate.\u00a0 These problems are blamed on a curse that began with Shida&#8217;s birth.\u00a0 Her chance to go to school and to study with a nurse depend on her ability to solve the mystery of this curse and its effect on her family and village, which include sad losses and real challenges for Shida.\u00a0 History and anthropology are backgrounds here for getting to know a remarkable young woman and watching her grow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GIRL CALLED PROBLEM by Katie Quirk Eerdmans Books, April 2013 Exotic location and sympathetic, real characters combine to provide excellent entertainment in a book aimed at students aged 10-14.\u00a0 Grandmothers might enjoy it too, as did I.\u00a0 The place &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/book-review-a-girl-called-problem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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\/334"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}