{"id":10121,"date":"2025-10-06T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10121"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:02:07","slug":"seeing-stars-for-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/seeing-stars-for-standoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing stars for Standoff!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What a wonderful book birthday present from School Library Journal. Not just such quotable quotes like these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;brilliantly written&#8221;<br>&#8220;sensitive portrayal of the reality facing innocent children and families in a war zone&#8221;<br>&#8220;historically accurate quotes and events interwoven&#8221;<br>&#8220;VERDICT Purchase for all middle grade shelves.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a STAR. Full review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slj.com\/story\/27-cozy-and-immersive-middle-grade-fiction-series\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\/07\/standoffauthorcopy-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/standoffauthorcopy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/standoffauthorcopy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/standoffauthorcopy-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/standoffauthorcopy.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a wonderful book birthday present from School Library Journal. Not just such quotable quotes like these: &#8220;brilliantly written&#8221;&#8220;sensitive portrayal of the reality facing innocent children and families in a war zone&#8221;&#8220;historically accurate quotes and events interwoven&#8221;&#8220;VERDICT Purchase for all middle grade shelves.&#8221; But a STAR. Full review here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[894,353,983,932,548,7],"class_list":["post-10121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-kidnapped-from-ukraie","tag-scholastic","tag-slj","tag-standoff","tag-starred-review","tag-ukrainian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121","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=10121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10122,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121\/revisions\/10122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}