{"id":1062,"date":"2011-10-26T13:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:52:18","slug":"a-room-on-lorelei-street-by-mary-e-pearson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"A Room on Lorelei Street by Mary E. Pearson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1068 size-medium\" title=\"A Room on Lorelei Street\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/A-Room-on-Lorelei-Street-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/A-Room-on-Lorelei-Street-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/A-Room-on-Lorelei-Street.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zoe Beth Buckman has got more than her fair share of troubles.\u00a0 Ever since her dad died, her mom has been a wreck.\u00a0\u00a0Her parents were always drinkers, but now it is clear to Zoe that her mom is an alcoholic who is going to drink herself to death if she doesn\u2019t change her ways.\u00a0 Zoe\u2019s grandmother insists that she needs to stay and take care of her ailing mother, but Zoe is sick and tired of it all \u2014 sick of the secrets and tired of being more of a mom than a daughter.\u00a0 After things at school start to be affected by her home life, Zoe decides that she needs to get out on her own.\u00a0 She finds a room for rent on Lorelei Street, but she isn\u2019t quite sure how she will be able to make ends meet.\u00a0\u00a0All she knows is that she needs to get out before she is sucked any further into the vortex of her mother\u2019s misery, and she is willing to do almost anything to make it work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe Beth Buckman has got more than her fair share of troubles.\u00a0 Ever since her dad died, her mom has been a wreck.\u00a0\u00a0Her parents were always drinkers, but now it is clear to Zoe that her mom is an alcoholic who is going to drink herself to death if she doesn\u2019t change her ways.\u00a0 Zoe\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Room on Lorelei Street by Mary E. Pearson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}