{"id":2064,"date":"2013-10-17T09:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:15:40","slug":"the-raven-boys-by-maggie-stiefvater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2099 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The-Raven-Boys.jpg\" alt=\"The Raven Boys\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though the rest of her family has psychic abilities, Blue was born without the ability to do more than to amplify the powers of others.\u00a0 Because of this amplification, Blue is always expected to be present for the parade of souls on St. Mark\u2019s Eve.\u00a0 At this parade, her mother records the names of the people who are marching \u2014 because they will die sometime in the next year.\u00a0 And, though Blue has never been able to see anyone before, she both sees and hears a Raven Boy named Gansey.\u00a0 Blue has always had a policy of avoiding Raven Boys [a.k.a. students of nearby Aglionby Prep] because they usually mean trouble.\u00a0 But, she is both inexplicably drawn to Gansey and curious whether she saw him because she is his true love or the reason for his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the rest of her family has psychic abilities, Blue was born without the ability to do more than to amplify the powers of others.\u00a0 Because of this amplification, Blue is always expected to be present for the parade of souls on St. Mark\u2019s Eve.\u00a0 At this parade, her mother records the names of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater<\/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-2064","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\/2064","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=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}