{"id":48,"date":"2005-12-03T07:49:45","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T11:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-12-03T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T11:49:45","slug":"what-erika-wants-by-bruce-clementsfarrar-strous-and-giroux-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/what-erika-wants-by-bruce-clementsfarrar-strous-and-giroux-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"What Erika Wants by Bruce ClementsFarrar, Strous and Giroux, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a well-written and engrossing story of a fourteen-year-old girl whose divorced parents are in the midst of a custody battle. Erika&#8217;s been living with her dad, but her pushy mom wants this to change: when the book opens, Erika parrots hollow phrases from her mother, like, &#8220;a girl should be home with her mom.&#8221; Erika&#8217;s dad isn&#8217;t exactly a paragon of excellence and stability, either, but he&#8217;s clearly doing his best. With gentle guidance from Jean, her court-appointed lawyer, Erika learns to be truer to herself, and to start thinking about what she wants, rather than what everybody else wants. It&#8217;s nice that this book has a fairly tight focus, without being dull or preachy: we see bits of Erika&#8217;s life (her best friend, play rehearsal, lunch hour at school, home), but there&#8217;s no sense that Clements wanted to cram more things into the story than would fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a well-written and engrossing story of a fourteen-year-old girl whose divorced parents are in the midst of a custody battle. Erika&#8217;s been living with her dad, but her pushy mom wants this to change: when the book opens, Erika parrots hollow phrases from her mother, like, &#8220;a girl should be home with her [&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-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}