{"id":677,"date":"2011-05-07T20:28:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=677"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:44:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:44:52","slug":"the-sweetness-at-the-bottom-of-the-pie-by-alan-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-679 size-full\" title=\"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/The-Sweetness-at-the-Bottom-of-the-Pie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eleven-year-old chemistry genius Flavia de Luce amuses herself by concocting potions and poisons in her laboratory.\u00a0 Flavia&#8217;s two older sisters constantly target her for taunts and pranks, and her father is too busy studying philatelic journals and catalogs to deal with his daughters or the fact that he can no longer afford their inherited English manor house.\u00a0\u00a0 When Flavia discovers a body in her cucumber patch, she&#8217;s delighted for the bit of excitement and takes it upon herself to investigate.\u00a0 She discovers that the victim was an avid stamp collector and former classmate of her father&#8217;s, leading her to wonder &#8212; could\u00a0her father be responsible?\u00a0 Flavia, with her trusty bicycle sidekick Gladys, gets to the bottom of things in this smart, fun mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven-year-old chemistry genius Flavia de Luce amuses herself by concocting potions and poisons in her laboratory.\u00a0 Flavia&#8217;s two older sisters constantly target her for taunts and pranks, and her father is too busy studying philatelic journals and catalogs to deal with his daughters or the fact that he can no longer afford their inherited English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley<\/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":[3,4,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}