{"id":3105,"date":"2015-02-12T21:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:15:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:15:50","slug":"croak-by-gina-damico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3105","title":{"rendered":"Croak by Gina Damico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3130 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Croak.jpg\" alt=\"Croak\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lex had always been a reasonably good kid, but she suddenly started to get in trouble all the time. \u00a0And not just the cutting class and hanging out with the wrong people kind of trouble, but the knocking people\u2019s teeth out for no apparent reason kind of trouble.\u00a0 When her parents reached their breaking point, Lex\u2019s Uncle Mort offered to take her for the summer.\u00a0 He said that Lex would help him with work on his farm, but he wasn\u2019t exactly telling the truth.\u00a0 In reality, Uncle Mort was planning to train Lex to be a Grim.\u00a0 As in \u201cgrim reaper.\u201d\u00a0 For real!\u00a0 Though there were a few unsettling descriptions of death scenes, I thought this book was pretty hilarious overall.\u00a0 Plenty of snark and immature humor to feed my inner 16-year-old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lex had always been a reasonably good kid, but she suddenly started to get in trouble all the time. \u00a0And not just the cutting class and hanging out with the wrong people kind of trouble, but the knocking people\u2019s teeth out for no apparent reason kind of trouble.\u00a0 When her parents reached their breaking point, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Croak by Gina Damico<\/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-3105","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\/3105","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=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}