{"id":156,"date":"2007-08-26T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T22:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-08-26T18:23:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T22:23:30","slug":"leon-and-the-spitting-image-by-allen-kurzweilgreenwillow-books-harpercollins-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/leon-and-the-spitting-image-by-allen-kurzweilgreenwillow-books-harpercollins-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon and the Spitting Image by Allen KurzweilGreenwillow Books (HarperCollins), 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the first day of school is any indication of things to come, fourth grade is not going to be a good year for Leon Zeisel. The class bully is as mean as ever, and, what&#8217;s worse, the fourth grade teacher is a scary woman with a penchant for sewing. For Leon, who&#8217;s still clumsy with his shoelaces, learning to use a needle and thread is more than daunting. But, as Coach Kasperitis, the PE teacher, wrote on Leon&#8217;s third grade report card, &#8220;Leon Zeisel is the kind of kid who could make magic.&#8221; And with a little magic, any school year can be made better. This is a fun and funny story &#038;#8212 a food-fight involving teachers is especially excellent &#8212; and if its &#8220;people and things are not always as they appear&#8221; message is predictable, it&#8217;s still a satisfying read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the first day of school is any indication of things to come, fourth grade is not going to be a good year for Leon Zeisel. The class bully is as mean as ever, and, what&#8217;s worse, the fourth grade teacher is a scary woman with a penchant for sewing. For Leon, who&#8217;s still clumsy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}