{"id":143719,"date":"2021-04-05T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143719"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T19:17:21","slug":"recommendations-from-the-middle-school-book-club-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143719","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations from the Middle School Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Witch-Boy-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Witch-Boy-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Witch-Boy.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4080036?locg=1\">The Witch Boy<\/a> &#8211; Molly Knox Ostertag <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/noble.overdrive.com\/media\/3586942\">ebook<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In thirteen-year-old Aster&#8217;s family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn&#8217;t shifted . . . and he&#8217;s still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be.When a mysterious danger threatens the other boys, Aster knows he can help &#8212; as a witch. It will take the encouragement of a new friend, the non-magical and non-conforming Charlie, to convince Aster to try practicing his skills. And it will require even more courage to save his family . . . and be truly himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The student read and recommends the other books in the series as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4200100?locg=1\">The Hidden Witch<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4363382?locg=1\">The Midwinter Witch<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Goldfinch-195x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Goldfinch-195x300.jpeg 195w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Goldfinch.jpeg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3367695?locg=1\">The Goldfinch<\/a> &#8211; Donna Tartt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don&#8217;t know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community.<\/p>\n<p>As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love &#8212; and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The student enjoyed the <a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4422987?locg=1\">movie<\/a> so much she decided to read the book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witch Boy &#8211; Molly Knox Ostertag (ebook) &#8220;In thirteen-year-old Aster&#8217;s family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn&#8217;t shifted . . . and he&#8217;s still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143720,"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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Witch-Boy.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Bo3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143719","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=143719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143723,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143719\/revisions\/143723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}