{"id":1968,"date":"2013-07-11T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:23:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:23:17","slug":"this-dark-endeavor-by-kenneth-oppel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2030 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/This-Dark-Endeavor.jpg\" alt=\"This Dark Endeavor\" width=\"136\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Victor Frankenstein and his twin brother, Konrad, have shared in many adventures with their cousin, Elizabeth, and their friend, Henry.\u00a0 On one such adventure, they discovered\u00a0the Dark Library \u2014 filled with ancient books about dark magic and alchemy.\u00a0 When their father found out, he forbade them from entering the library again.\u00a0 After Konrad fell ill with an unidentified malady that the doctors\u2019 treatments and medicines could not cure, nevertheless, Victor decided to seek an ancient remedy in the books of the Dark Library.\u00a0 Full of action, adventure, and mystery, this back-story to Shelley\u2019s <em>Frankenstein<\/em> is a gothic thriller that will probably even appeal to reluctant readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Frankenstein and his twin brother, Konrad, have shared in many adventures with their cousin, Elizabeth, and their friend, Henry.\u00a0 On one such adventure, they discovered\u00a0the Dark Library \u2014 filled with ancient books about dark magic and alchemy.\u00a0 When their father found out, he forbade them from entering the library again.\u00a0 After Konrad fell ill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel<\/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-1968","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\/1968","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=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}