{"id":9064,"date":"2022-06-01T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=9064"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:27:07","slug":"365n-teen-or-young-adult-book-about-a-boy-runner-in-a-fictional-foreign-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/365n-teen-or-young-adult-book-about-a-boy-runner-in-a-fictional-foreign-country\/","title":{"rendered":"365N: Teen or young adult book about a boy runner in a fictional foreign country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>I recorded this book for our local Library several years ago, but it seems to have disappeared.\u00a0 The main character is a teenage boy.\u00a0 He lives with his father who publishes an underground newspaper articles about life in this country and sends them out to his daughter who is a college student in &#8220;Freelandia&#8221; (I think that is the name assigned to what is the USA.)\u00a0 In the country where the boy lives, one route to escaping poverty is success as a runner, but first he needs shoes good enough to train.\u00a0 There is a group of runners who use a training route preparing for competition, and he is singled out from this group by an older man, apparently one who is a member of some sort of crime syndicate, who will give him money for the shoes in advance, but basically own his soul going forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boy wants to win the race in order to escape the country, which sounds a lot like Cuba or Venezuela.&nbsp; The plot involves danger, maybe murder of his family, danger to his sister, and finally he finds help from a librarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded this book for our local Library several years ago, but it seems to have disappeared.\u00a0 The main character is a teenage boy.\u00a0 He lives with his father who publishes an underground newspaper articles about life in this country and sends them out to his daughter who is a college student in &#8220;Freelandia&#8221; (I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,19,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064"}],"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=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9065,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions\/9065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}