{"id":10,"date":"2013-05-23T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2014-10-05T20:48:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:48:32","slug":"middle-grade-may-stargirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Middle Grade May – Stargirl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently for Children’s Book Week the entire school dressed as their favorite book characters. It was a fun day!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Of course I dressed up (um…Librarian? How could I not?) — here is a photo of my daughters and I. Can you guess who we were?<\/div>\n
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Our fourth grade teacher dressed in a flapper costume and said she was Stargirl. I loved her costume, but hadn’t read the book yet. Time to fix that!<\/div>\n
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I read it in a few hours. Loved it! Couldn’t put it down. I don’t understand why it took me so long to read it.<\/div>\n
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Stargirl makes her own name(s), dresses however she wants (and not how everyone else dresses), brings a ukulele to school with her and serenades people on their birthday, makes random cards for people and delivers them, and all other non-conformist things. She doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.<\/div>\n
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At first, the other students love her and her differences, but after a while they turn on her for being so different.<\/div>\n
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Throughout the whole book I was either like, “OMG, that is SO me!” or “OMG, I wish<\/em> that was me!” I think everyone who reads this (boy or girl) will see at least a little of themselves in Stargirl.<\/div>\n
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This is such a fantastic story about fitting in and even more importantly – not fitting in<\/strong>.<\/div>\n
If you haven’t read it, then please do! It’s the best book I’ve read so far this year. Can’t wait to read LOVE, STARGIRL.<\/div>\n
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Recently for Children’s Book Week the entire school dressed as their favorite book characters. It was a fun day! Of course I dressed up (um…Librarian? How could I not?) — here is a photo of my daughters and I. Can you guess who we were? Our fourth grade teacher dressed in a flapper costume and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}