{"id":13908,"date":"2024-11-08T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosterlibraries.org\/?p=13908"},"modified":"2024-11-08T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T19:54:08","slug":"the-best-at-it-by-maulik-pancholy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/?p=13908","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Best at It&#8221; by Maulik Pancholy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey recommends:<\/strong> The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Realistic 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> Rahul enters seventh grade with one mission: to find one activity that he can be the BEST at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey says:<\/strong> This quick read was packed with more heart and character than I thought possible. Rahul, a gay Indian-American with OCD, has a lot of reasons he feels like he&#8217;ll never fit in, and he believes the only way to overcome these &#8220;shortcomings&#8221; is to achieve some kind of wild success. Luckily, Rahul has a fun-loving grandfather and a loyal best friend, who both advocate for Rahul when he would rather erase himself. Readers with perfectionist leanings will see themselves in Rahul&#8217;s absurd, accomplishment-based logic, and learn to give themselves the grace that a friend would extend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-25-678x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13909\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul enters seventh grade with one mission: to find one activity that he can be the BEST at. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13909,"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":[16,23,32],"class_list":["post-13908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-recs","tag-audrey-recs","tag-fiction","tag-middle-grade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908","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=13908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}