{"id":2767,"date":"2006-11-13T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:51","slug":"unalienable-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"Unalienable Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This book is a 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/dadtalk.typepad.com\/cybils\/2006\/10\/young_adult_nov.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cybil Award<\/a> Nominee for YA Fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spending the worst summer of her life dressing up as an 18th century farm girl at the <img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taraaltebrando.com\/images\/finalpursuit.gif\" align=\"left\" \/>Morrisville Historic Village is actually kind of a relief to Betsy Odell. At least at work, she can forget about her mother&#8217;s death, her brother&#8217;s pain, her history professor father&#8217;s indifference, and the fact that she&#8217;s lost her best  friend, Mary, her boyfriend, Brandon, and any sense that anything is ever going to be right, ever again. This was <i>supposed<\/i> to be a great summer. Betsy has had a real boyfriend for six months, and this was supposed to be the magical summer when everything went right. Instead, it&#8217;s anything but. When everything fall apart, the friends she thought were true are nowhere to be found. Betsy decides it&#8217;s time to ditch everything familiar and assert her right to happiness. Even if it means alienating all of her old crowd and trying to find her place in a new history with James and Liza, her friends from Morrisville, Betsy wants to make her own way. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=1416513280\" target=\"_blank\">The Pursuit of Happiness<\/a> is a funny, poignant and memorable look at a life filled with losses, and the possibility that we can take what is lost, and find not replacements, but space in our hearts for something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a 2006 Cybil Award Nominee for YA Fiction. Spending the worst summer of her life dressing up as an 18th century&#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":[5],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","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=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}