{"id":8434,"date":"2021-04-27T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2021-04-27T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:28:37","slug":"356i-seeking-the-name-of-a-ya-book-from-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/356i-seeking-the-name-of-a-ya-book-from-the-80s\/","title":{"rendered":"356I: Seeking the name of a YA book from the 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So there’s this YA book I read as a kid that I’ve been trying to figure out for years. Here’s what I know\/remember about it:<\/div>\n
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*It was about a girl, age 9ish-12ish, who was an only child.<\/p>\n

*Her mom gets pregnant, which I don’t think the kid was thrilled about, but mom has a stillbirth or miscarriage.<\/p>\n

*There’s a scene where mom comes home from the hospital after losing the baby and the girl is cuddling with her and there’s a rather detailed description of what the mom’s tummy feels like now that there’s no longer a baby in it.<\/p>\n

*There’s also a scene where the girl’s aunt is babysitting her, I think while mom is in the hospital, and the aunt takes the girl to a bar for dinner where the aunt’s boyfriend’s band plays. The girl orders spaghetti and a chocolate shake. I remember this because it blew my mind at the time and sounded like the best dinner ever.<\/p>\n

*I THINK there may have been another book to the story, wherein the mom winds up having another healthy baby.<\/p>\n

*It was written in the 70s or 80s.<\/p>\n

*I read it sometime in the late 80s.<\/p>\n

*It was similar in style to a Beverly Cleary or Judy Blume, but I DON’T think it was written by either of them or by any of the other really well known children’s authors of that time.<\/p>\n

*I am NOT thinking of the Anastasia Krupnik series.<\/p>\n

That’s it. Any ideas? There’s no particular reason for me trying to remember, except that it pops into my head every once in a while and drives me bananas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there’s this YA book I read as a kid that I’ve been trying to figure out for years. Here’s what I know\/remember about it: *It was about a girl, age 9ish-12ish, who was an only child. *Her mom gets pregnant, which I don’t think the kid was thrilled about, but mom has a stillbirth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,19,5],"tags":[157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434"}],"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=8434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8435,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434\/revisions\/8435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}