{"id":1317,"date":"2011-06-14T07:39:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2011-06-14T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:27:00","slug":"musical-welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Musical Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June&#8217;s off to a solid, summer-reading start with new books from <a href=\"http:\/\/kathryneskine.wordpress.com\">Kathy Erskine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ericaperl.squarespace.com\/\">Erica Perl.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Kathy, whose Mockingbird won the National Book Award last year, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Absolute-Value-Mike-Kathryn-Erskine\/dp\/0399255052\">The Absolute Value of Mike<\/a>, where a 14-year-old boy with a math learning disability learns that he has other abilities that more than make up for it. The story is played out in a Pennsylvania town where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgourmet.com\/food\/sleuth\/0998\/scrapple.html#axzz1PFluwOrz\">Scrapple<\/a> is king and the townspeople &#8212; Mike&#8217;s relatives among them &#8212; are about as quirky as they come.<\/p>\n<p>To welcome Kathy&#8217;s new book, which was released on June 9, I thought I&#8217;d play you:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AtEZMzWS68Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Erica&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/ericaperl.squarespace.com\/when-life-gives-you-oj\/\">When Life Gives You OJ, <\/a> is out TODAY, TODAY, TODAY. The book, features Zelly Fried, 11 years old and trying to fit in a strange new world in Vermont. A dog, she thinks, could make everything right. And then she meets OJ, the practice dog her grandfather gives her, which, yep, is really an orange juice container. <\/p>\n<p>To welcome this new book from the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/ericaperl.squarespace.com\/chicken-butt\/\">Chicken Butt<\/a> (I&#8217;ve always wanted to say that) I thought I&#8217;d play you the Monkees&#8217; I&#8217;m Gonna Buy Me a Dog.<br \/>\nh<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fn8RMfFlXgA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nErica&#8217;s trailer for this book is wonderful, so I thought I&#8217;d link to that as well.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dC_3625Y7c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHappy Book Birthday to Kathy and Erica! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June&#8217;s off to a solid, summer-reading start with new books from Kathy Erskine and Erica Perl. From Kathy, whose Mockingbird won the National Book Award last year, we have The Absolute Value of Mike, where a 14-year-old boy with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=1317\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}