{"id":7301,"date":"2020-04-17T11:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=7301"},"modified":"2020-04-22T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T12:31:09","slug":"338m-ya-fiction-ruby-cross-of-acapulco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/338m-ya-fiction-ruby-cross-of-acapulco\/","title":{"rendered":"338M: YA fiction Ruby Cross of Acapulco (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I&#8217;ve been searching for this book for years. I read it in the 6th grade, twenty-one years ago. My old teacher didn&#8217;t remember it, and I don&#8217;t recall the title or author. It seems that it was an older book, possibly from the 50s or 60s. There were a couple black and white sketches in it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I remember most of the plot. A girl named Samantha lived in Boston with her mother (father deceased), who then died, leaving her an orphan. Her mother&#8217;s dying words were something to the effect of keeping the family heirloom safe. A ruby cross stolen from Acapulco.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Samantha is sent to live with her relatives in Hawaii (during the life of Princess Liliuokalani &#8211; I think she even had tea with her, or met her in the story). She has a cousin her own age and she experiences lots of new things there, but trouble turns up as men seeking the ruby cross, which she hid in a cave. She ends up kidnapped and having to show them where it is, but is rescued my a family friend, Andrew. All ends well. She ends up marrying Andrew, and they return the cross to Acapulco at the end of the book.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been searching for this book for years. I read it in the 6th grade, twenty-one years ago. My old teacher didn&#8217;t remember it, and I don&#8217;t recall the title or author. It seems that it was an older book, possibly from the 50s or 60s. There were a couple black and white sketches in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,4,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7312,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions\/7312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}