{"id":2947,"date":"2006-07-04T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:32","slug":"horn-book-called-it-with-vampire-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"Horn Book called it &#39;Interview with a Vampire for the Learner&#39;s Permit set.&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2058\/873\/1600\/tn_CompanionsPage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2058\/873\/320\/tn_CompanionsPage.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It was just a trip to the Laundromat. It shouldn&#8217;t have almost gotten her killed.<br \/>When 16-year-old Kerry goes to the laundry to pick up her brother&#8217;s teddybear, she stumbles onto what she thinks is a crime scene. There are adults &#8212; grown ups &#8212; beating up a kid. He&#8217;s got to be no more than a college freshman, and he&#8217;s bleeding &#8211; badly. They hold her at gunpoint, and say he&#8217;s a &#8212; vampire? Are they kidding? Kerry takes a gamble and helps him get free. It should all have ended right there&#8230; but it didn&#8217;t. And the week just goes downhill from there.<\/p>\n<p>Vivian Vande Velde&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&#038;isbn=0440219795\">Companions of the Night<\/a> really feels like it&#8217;s one long nightmare, a feat of tension and darkness that is really excellent. The pace drives you onward, and the novel is short enough for a one-sitting feast, even for teens. This novel was <em>also <\/em>listed as an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, proving that not all reluctant readers long to read the novelized tales of Jerry Springer shows. (Writers, take note!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a trip to the Laundromat. It shouldn&#8217;t have almost gotten her killed.When 16-year-old Kerry goes to the laundry to pick up&#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-2947","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\/2947","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=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}