{"id":2214,"date":"2014-01-17T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T10:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:50:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:50:15","slug":"what-we-found-in-the-sofa-and-how-it-saved-the-world-by-henry-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2214","title":{"rendered":"What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World by Henry Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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River was orphaned when his parents died in a car crash, and he\u2019s also shorter than he should be because his legs\u2019 growth plates were fractured in the crash.\u00a0 He now lives with his aunt and pretty much only has two friends \u2014 Freak and Fiona.\u00a0 Freak has plenty of problems of his own, thanks to his alcoholic father.\u00a0 And Fiona is popular enough that she pretends not to know River and Freak when other people are around.\u00a0 To make matters worse, they live next to a place the local newspaper calls \u201cHellsboro\u201d \u2014 the area surrounding the old Rodmore Chemical plant where an underground coal-seam fire makes the land uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

After all of that, I can understand if you\u2019re hesitant to believe that this is a great\/often funny middle grade book, but it really is!\u00a0 My son and I actually laughed out loud fairly often as we read this story.\u00a0 How is that possible?\u00a0 Because it doesn\u2019t focus so much on the depressing stuff; that\u2019s all more of a footnote, really.\u00a0 The story centers around all the craziness that happened after they found a rare crayon in a sofa by the curb in front of the Underhill Mansion.\u00a0 If you want a funny story about cell phones, genetically modified foods, flash mobs, and brain control (presented as a nice blend of realistic and science fiction), I suggest you check this one out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

River was orphaned when his parents died in a car crash, and he\u2019s also shorter than he should be because his legs\u2019 growth plates were fractured in the crash.\u00a0 He now lives with his aunt and pretty much only has two friends \u2014 Freak and Fiona.\u00a0 Freak has plenty of problems of his own, thanks … Continue reading What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World by Henry Clark<\/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":[3,5,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-children","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","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=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}