{"id":1349,"date":"2012-05-30T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2015-04-04T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:33:05","slug":"how-to-save-a-life-by-sara-zarr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mandy Kalinowski is pregnant and scared.\u00a0 She isn’t sure about much in her life, but she is sure that she wants her baby to have a better life than she can provide — so she plans to give her baby up for adoption.<\/p>\n

Jill MacSweeny has been lonely and depressed since her father’s sudden, unexpected death about a year before.\u00a0 She has driven away most of her former friends but has a mom and a boyfriend who are ready and willing to support her.\u00a0 The problem is that she doesn’t want to learn how to move on… She just wants things back the way they were.<\/p>\n

How do their lives intersect?\u00a0 Jill’s mom, Robin, is planning to adopt Mandy’s baby — without lawyers or an adoption agency.\u00a0 Jill is extremely cynical, to say the least.\u00a0 She is not happy that her mom is trying to adopt a baby, but she is more afraid that Mandy is going to decide to keep the baby and break her mom’s heart.\u00a0 Mandy knows that the Robin is better prepared to raise this baby, but she also fantasizes about running away and keeping\/raising the baby herself.\u00a0 It’s hard to imagine anything but a heart-breaking ending to this story, but I promise you will cry HAPPY tears for this one!\u00a0 An amazing story about life, love, and finding your place in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mandy Kalinowski is pregnant and scared.\u00a0 She isn’t sure about much in her life, but she is sure that she wants her baby to have a better life than she can provide — so she plans to give her baby up for adoption. Jill MacSweeny has been lonely and depressed since her father’s sudden, unexpected … Continue reading How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr<\/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-1349","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\/1349","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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}