{"id":10088,"date":"2025-09-07T02:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10088"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:02:07","slug":"sheryl-azzams-red-flags-and-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/sheryl-azzams-red-flags-and-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheryl Azzam&#8217;s Red Flags and Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rfbtontable-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rfbtontable-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rfbtontable-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rfbtontable-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rfbtontable-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rfbtontable.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td colspan=\"5\">Sheryl&#8217;s book will be released on October 18, 2025. Five out of five stars from me!<br><br><em>\u201cA tender, heartfelt, and intelligent coming-of-age story that celebrates quiet strength and trusting your instincts.\u201d \u2014 Kirkus Reviews <\/em>(starred review)<br><br>Straight A student, talented artist, swim team star \u2014 tenth-grader Lexie Moore is a shoo-in for Sunridge High\u2019s prestigious fine art program, if only she can find the right words to tell her dad she wants to apply.<br><br>Lexie\u2019s dad doesn\u2019t see the point of some overpriced art school. He wants Lexie and her brother at home to help him launch his new renovation business. He says he can\u2019t do this without her, so Lexie agrees to pitch in, just for a little while. If she supports his plan, then he\u2019ll have to support hers, right? It\u2019s only fair.<br>But Lexie\u2019s dad has a very different definition of \u201cfair,\u201d and as his demands increase, his means of getting his way become more and more suffocating.<br><br>Red Flags and Butterflies is an engrossing story about a young person facing the realities of emotional abuse.<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheryl&#8217;s book will be released on October 18, 2025. Five out of five stars from me! \u201cA tender, heartfelt, and intelligent coming-of-age story that celebrates quiet strength and trusting your instincts.\u201d \u2014 Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Straight A student, talented artist, swim team star \u2014 tenth-grader Lexie Moore is a shoo-in for Sunridge High\u2019s prestigious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/sheryl-azzams-red-flags-and-butterflies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sheryl Azzam&#8217;s Red Flags and Butterflies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,262],"tags":[974,973],"class_list":["post-10088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-news-stories","tag-red-flags-and-butterflies","tag-sheryl-azzam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}