{"id":3120,"date":"2015-03-05T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2015-03-30T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T22:00:36","slug":"once-was-lost-by-sara-zarr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3120","title":{"rendered":"Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s always fun to escape real life in the pages of a book, and I find it somehow more satisfying to read a book about a sweltering summer heat wave when\u00a0I’m living through\u00a0a snow-filled winter storm. \u00a0Add that to the fact that all of\u00a0Sara Zarr’s books<\/a> are pretty darn amazing, and you have\u00a0a fantastic reason to read this book right now!<\/em><\/p>\n

Sam is having a really rough summer. \u00a0Not only is\u00a0her mom in rehab (after hiding her alcoholism for years), but her father seems more concerned with fixing\u00a0the problems facing his\u00a0church’s congregation\u00a0than the problems facing his own family. \u00a0When one of Sam’s friends, Jody Shaw, goes missing, Sam’s life falls even apart even further… and she’s left feeling extremely guilty for even\u00a0thinking about her own problems when she could be\u00a0putting all of her time and energy into the search for\u00a0Jody. \u00a0Despite Sam’s mounting depression, the story doesn’t drag. \u00a0And although Zarr addresses Sam’s crisis of faith, she provides some seriously amazing insights without being didactic or\u00a0preachy. \u00a0This may very well be tied (with How to Save a Life<\/a>)\u00a0as my favorite Sara Zarr story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always fun to escape real life in the pages of a book, and I find it somehow more satisfying to read a book about a sweltering summer heat wave when\u00a0I’m living through\u00a0a snow-filled winter storm. \u00a0Add that to the fact that all of\u00a0Sara Zarr’s books are pretty darn amazing, and you have\u00a0a fantastic reason … Continue reading Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr<\/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-3120","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\/3120","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=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}