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Friendship Over (The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine)<\/a> Booktalk:<\/strong> When ten-year-old Celie\u2019s father gives her a journal and a punching bag for her birthday, he tells her they\u2019ll help her work through her feelings, and wow\u2014does she have feelings to work through. Her best friend Lula isn\u2019t speaking to her, her sister Jo locks her out of their room to hang out with her new, cooler friend, and her Granny is suddenly behaving in the most perplexing manner.<\/p>\n Snippet:<\/strong> It was terrible.<\/p>\n I should have fake-fainted, so I wouldn’t have had to go.<\/p>\n It was so awkward<\/strong>, there in Miss Wilde’s dark office. Lulu sat as far from me as she possibly could on the leather couch. Plus I don’t think she looked at me once.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2015 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. Friendship Over (The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine) by Julie Sternberg (Author) and Johanna Wright (Illustrator) Booktalk: When ten-year-old Celie\u2019s father gives her a journal and a punching bag for her birthday, he tells her they\u2019ll help her work through her feelings, and wow\u2014does she have feelings to work through. Her best friend Lula isn\u2019t … Continue reading Friendship Over (The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine)<\/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":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-chapter-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","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=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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