{"id":143523,"date":"2021-02-19T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143523"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:42:32","slug":"student-recommendation-planet-earth-is-blue-nicole-panteleakos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143523","title":{"rendered":"Student Recommendation: Planet Earth is Blue &#8211; Nicole Panteleakos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Planet-Earth-is-Blue-201x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Planet-Earth-is-Blue-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Planet-Earth-is-Blue.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>Kaila enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4342386?locg=11\"><strong>Planet Earth is Blue<\/strong><\/a>, and thought fans of books like <a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3175293?locg=11\"><em>Wonder<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3593502?locg=11\"><em>The War that Saved My Life<\/em><\/a> might like it, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger&#8211;it&#8217;s the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home.<\/p>\n<p>While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can&#8217;t express. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova&#8217;s new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. But every day, she&#8217;s counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she&#8217;ll see Bridget again. Because as Bridget said, &#8220;No matter what, I&#8217;ll be there. I promise.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaila enjoyed Planet Earth is Blue, and thought fans of books like Wonder and The War that Saved My Life might like it, too. &#8220;Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger&#8211;it&#8217;s the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-grade-fiction","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Planet-Earth-is-Blue.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BkT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143525,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143523\/revisions\/143525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}