{"id":4725,"date":"2011-09-20T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2011-09-20T01:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T06:00:24","slug":"close-to-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/close-to-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Close to the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51VDYT2bt8L._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0803732791\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0803732791\">New Year at the Pier: A Rosh Hashanah Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by April Halprin Wayland (Author) and Stephane Jorisch (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> A boy named Izzy celebrates Jewish New Year at the water&#8217;s edge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <em>Izzy loves this changing time of year. Some days sunglasses, someday sweaters. Apples, honey, the sound of the shofar, and his favorite part of Rosh Hashanah: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tashlich!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BONUS! See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u1tgkBMiBGM\">video<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u1tgkBMiBGM]<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/517Jbfp0vZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1561455970\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1561455970\">Chasing the Nightbird<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Krista Russell (Author)<\/p>\n<p>208 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Fourteen-year-old Lucky Valera is a seasoned sailor on the crew of the whaling ship, Nightbird. But when his estranged older brother suddenly kidnaps him off the docks and forces him into servitude at the mill, his life takes a dramatic turn for the worse. The Underground Railroad looks like the answer, but plans go awry. How can Lucky find freedom?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1851<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If it were true that seagulls possessed the souls of dead sailors, Lucky Valera wondered which of his shipmates was diving at him from the June morning sky.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BONUS! See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PzGQnZBGVZ0\">video<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PzGQnZBGVZ0]<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Road Work Ahead blog tour underway!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/blogtour.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>September 19-23 Road Work Ahead blog tour<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday 9\/19<strong> &#8211; \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darcypattison.com\/picture-books\/25-year-revision\/\">Fiction Notes<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingmom.com\/blogs\/anotherthought\/7668\/\">EverythingMom<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tuesday 9\/20 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereadingtub.com\/\">The Reading Tub<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wednesday 9\/21 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greatkidbooks.blogspot.com\/\">Great Kid Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thursday 9\/22 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imaginationsoup.net\/\">Imagination Soup<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Friday 9\/23 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maclibrary.wordpress.com\/\">Check It Out<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Road-Work-Ahead\/208953819146538\">Road Work Ahead Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0for news and activities *<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Children\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/o5vYYd\">Authors Who Broke the Rules<\/a> (via New York Times)<\/p>\n<p>Banned Books Week is 9\/24 &#8211; 10\/1 &#8212; check the YouTube page for <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/6yyzw\">new videos<\/a> throughout the week! (via @harpercollins)<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><!-- Copyright  (c)2006 Site Meter --> My NEW book is here!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=ch.read.write.sports\">Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Book of the Day New Year at the Pier: A Rosh Hashanah Story by April Halprin Wayland (Author) and Stephane Jorisch (Illustrator) Booktalk: A boy named Izzy celebrates Jewish New Year at the water&#8217;s edge&#8230; Snippet: Izzy loves this changing time of year. Some days sunglasses, someday sweaters. Apples, honey, the sound of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/close-to-the-sea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Close to the Sea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-new-book","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}