{"id":11454,"date":"2023-07-17T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosterlibraries.org\/?p=11454"},"modified":"2023-07-17T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:04:42","slug":"sweet-and-sour-by-debbi-michiko-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/?p=11454","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sweet and Sour&#8221; by Debbi Michiko Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey recommends:<\/strong> Sweet and Sour by Debbi Michiko Florence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Contemporary fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reading Level:<\/strong> Middle grade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Mai is furious with her best friend Zach for his awful behavior two summers ago&#8230; only problem is, he has no idea what he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey says: <\/strong>Debbi Michiko Florence&#8217;s novels are the best if you love complex characters and nuanced relationships. Mai and Zach&#8217;s memories of the past are different, but neither is wrong for feeling the way they do. The reader might feel compelled to take a side when they&#8217;re working with limited information, just like the characters do. When the full truth is revealed, it&#8217;s surprising to learn how many bad assumptions you&#8217;ve made. As an added bonus, this story takes place in Mystic, CT. Anyone who&#8217;s been to the seaport will instantly recognize all the locations in this book!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>This book is available at Foster Public Library.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sweet-and-sour-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11455\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mai is furious with her best friend Zach for his awful behavior two summers ago&#8230; only problem is, he has no idea what he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_recurring":false,"_piecal_recurring_interval":1,"_piecal_recurring_frequency":"","_piecal_recurring_exact_position":false,"_piecal_recurring_end":"","_piecal_color":"","_piecal_text_color":"","_piecal_global_color_master":false,"_piecal_rsets":"[]","_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,32,40],"class_list":["post-11454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-recs","tag-audrey-recs","tag-middle-grade","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}