{"id":2487,"date":"2007-06-09T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:37","slug":"48-hour-book-challenge-c-get-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"48 Hour Book Challenge: C&#39;mon, Get Happy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grrr!<br \/>There&#8217;s <i>no way<\/i> Annabel is going to have a good Christmas break. First off, her so-call best friend, with whom she was meant to spend this whole break has a sudden case of oops-family-trip, and totally leaves her. Bubbe goes to Florida, and Angelina, Annabel&#8217;s mother, goes off with her new boyfriend, Harvey, and his nerdy son, Wheaties (whose real name is Alan, <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.syndetics.com\/hw7.pl?client=depup&#038;isbn=0689845499\/LC.JPG\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>but what twelve-year-old wants to be called that?). Annabel is stuck going all the way to Melbourne where everybody talks funny, lazily adds &#8216;ie&#8217; to any shortened word ending and thinks it&#8217;s cool, says everything is &#8220;graaayate&#8221; like it&#8217;s the Australian national word, and are total&#8230; Dad-stealers, to visit with her dad, Jack, and meet his new family&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=9780689845499\" target=\"_blank\"> The Steps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Cohn has a way of capturing the quickly shifting landscape of feelings anyone has to go through the first worst time of meeting a parent&#8217;s new spouse and the stepsiblings. The first time you hear someone calls the man you love &#8220;Dad&#8221; can bring up the most sickening rage. I actually got <i>pissed off<\/i> reading this book, and my parents are still married! There wasn&#8217;t a big &#8220;Yay!&#8221; all the time, but this book ends up realistically-ever-after, even though by the end more &#8220;steps&#8221; are on the way. A supportive book for anyone whose family tree looks more like a diagram than a plant with roots and branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grrr!There&#8217;s no way Annabel is going to have a good Christmas break. First off, her so-call best friend, with whom she was meant to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,44,14,21,5],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annual-48-hour-book-challenge-contest","tag-humor","tag-middle-grade","tag-realistic-fiction","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}