{"id":8222,"date":"2021-02-13T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=8222"},"modified":"2024-01-02T13:17:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T18:17:38","slug":"352z-jazz-musicians-guide-boy-falsely-accused-of-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/352z-jazz-musicians-guide-boy-falsely-accused-of-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"352Z: Jazz Musicians Guide Boy Falsely Accused of Theft (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I\u2019m looking for a young adult book which I read in the late 80s\/early 90s. It\u2019s about a boy, who gets accused of stealing in school, big &nbsp;jazz elements as there are some jazz musicians who help him (and references to many jazz greats), it\u2019s about righting wrongs without having to tattle.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So : a bit more detail. He gets accused. He didn\u2019t do it but knows his wealthy classmate did it.<\/div>\n<div>In the early part of the book, he wears a t-shirt that says \u201cDon\u2019t cheer boys, the poor fellows are dying\u201d which is a quote from John Woodward Phillip and his t-shirt is met with disapproval from the principal.<\/div>\n<div>The kid is in deep trouble as everyone thinks he stole and he has to go see a judge in court, I think.<\/div>\n<div>Finally, and most importantly, there are a number of jazz musicians who provide the protagonist kid with help and guidance.<\/div>\n<div>The book is about jazz, doing the right thing and the reality of being a poor kid whom everyone assumes has stolen whereas the rich kid is not even a suspect cos why would he even need to steal?<\/div>\n<div>It\u2019s really well written but I can\u2019t remember the name or author and would love to read it again.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m looking for a young adult book which I read in the late 80s\/early 90s. It\u2019s about a boy, who gets accused of stealing in school, big &nbsp;jazz elements as there are some jazz musicians who help him (and references to many jazz greats), it\u2019s about righting wrongs without having to tattle. So : a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,13,18,5],"tags":[237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222"}],"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=8222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9813,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions\/9813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}