{"id":4782,"date":"2011-10-18T01:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T06:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2011-10-18T01:55:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T06:55:51","slug":"unexpected-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/18\/unexpected-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected&#8230;"},"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\/51ZkKwdEW6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1554535972\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=1554535972\">Binky to the Rescue<\/a> (A Binky Adventure)<\/p>\n<p>by Ashley Spires (Author, Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Binky the space cat falls out of his space station (through the bathroom window) and lands in outer space (the back yard!) in this <em>comic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>SFX: (insect sound effects) bzzzzz<\/p>\n<p>Another one got in.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the third alien today.<\/p>\n<p>But it will not escape.<\/em><\/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:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/uploadedImages\/Books\/9780810984172_s3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0810984172\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0810984172\">Shine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Lauren Myracle (Author)<\/p>\n<p>376 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> When her best guy friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover who in her small town did it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <em>Back when we were kids, Patrick and I escaped the summer heat by worming into the crawl space beneath his house, which was cool and private and, best of all, <strong>ours<\/strong>. It was our secret hideaway, and we spent countless hours down there with no one to keep tabs on us but blind and sluggish bugs. The sort of bugs that would eat us one day, we used to say for the shiver of it. Coffin bugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BONUS! See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q5gGOqO-xDg\">video<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q5gGOqO-xDg]<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arthur Goes <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/rqWTsE\">Digital<\/a>, with Creator Marc Brown (via @ShelfAwareness)<\/p>\n<p>eBook sales <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/91qu5Y97\">rose 105%<\/a> in July compared to same period last year (via @ebooknewser)<\/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, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=ch.zombie\">The Zombie Project<\/a> (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #128)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Book of the Day Binky to the Rescue (A Binky Adventure) by Ashley Spires (Author, Illustrator) Booktalk: Binky the space cat falls out of his space station (through the bathroom window) and lands in outer space (the back yard!) in this comic. Snippet: SFX: (insect sound effects) bzzzzz Another one got in. It&#8217;s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/18\/unexpected-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unexpected&#8230;<\/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":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-ebooks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782","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=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}