{"id":518,"date":"2011-01-26T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:11:21","slug":"countdown-by-deborah-wiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Countdown by Deborah Wiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-531 size-full\" title=\"Countdown\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/countdown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The year is 1962, and twelve-year-old Franny lives in Washington, DC with her family. \u00a0In the days surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis, everyone around her is living in uncertainty and fear.\u00a0 In addition to dealing with air raid drills and duck-and-cover practice at school, Franny is trying to figure out the messy business of growing up.\u00a0 What makes this book special is its documentary format &#8212; it is sprinkled with actual newspaper clippings, photographs, brief vignettes about famous people, and ads from the time period. Even though this book is written for older children and young teens, adults will also enjoy it and the feeling of being sent back in a time machine to the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year is 1962, and twelve-year-old Franny lives in Washington, DC with her family. \u00a0In the days surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis, everyone around her is living in uncertainty and fear.\u00a0 In addition to dealing with air raid drills and duck-and-cover practice at school, Franny is trying to figure out the messy business of growing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Countdown by Deborah Wiles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-children","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-molly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}