{"id":2212,"date":"2014-01-16T09:53:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T09:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:51:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:51:29","slug":"impulse-by-steven-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2212","title":{"rendered":"Impulse by Steven Gould"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Impulse\"<\/p>\n

Cent [short for Millicent] is a 16-year-old girl who, despite being homeschooled in the remote Canadian wilderness, has seen more of the world than many people will see in a lifetime.\u00a0 She sometimes takes off at a moment\u2019s notice to go shopping or surfing halfway around the world, but her parents don\u2019t own a private jet or helicopter.\u00a0 In fact, the helipad on their property is so overgrown with weeds it\u2019s barely recognizable.\u00a0 How do they get there, then?\u00a0 They jump.\u00a0 All they have to do is concentrate on where they want to go and they can teleport themselves.\u00a0 Though unable to jump herself, Cent has always been brought along by one of her parents.\u00a0 Until one day, while snowboarding without permission, when she nearly gets caught in an avalanche and accidentally learns how to jump herself.\u00a0 Cent gets excited by all the possibilities her jumping has opened up to her\u2026 but it terrifies her parents.\u00a0 Not only do they have the usual parental worries of their daughter getting hurt in the usual ways, but they\u2019re also worried that Cent could wind up kidnapped by the scientists who once held her father captive in an attempt to discover how jumping actually works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cent [short for Millicent] is a 16-year-old girl who, despite being homeschooled in the remote Canadian wilderness, has seen more of the world than many people will see in a lifetime.\u00a0 She sometimes takes off at a moment\u2019s notice to go shopping or surfing halfway around the world, but her parents don\u2019t own a private … Continue reading Impulse by Steven Gould<\/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-2212","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\/2212","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=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}