{"id":2771,"date":"2015-03-03T16:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T21:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla2.com\/wordpress\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2016-04-18T03:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T03:03:43","slug":"to-be-considered-a-blockbuster-female-author-how-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/to-be-considered-a-blockbuster-female-author-how-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"To be considered a Blockbuster Female Author! How nice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slj.com\/2015\/03\/collection-development\/jlg-booktalks\/heartrending-ya-novels-by-blockbuster-female-authors#_\">this<\/a> School Library Journal Teen column!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-65 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DanceOfTheBanished_HR_RGB1-103x150.jpg\" alt=\"DanceOfTheBanished_HR_RGB1\" width=\"103\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DanceOfTheBanished_HR_RGB1-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DanceOfTheBanished_HR_RGB1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DanceOfTheBanished_HR_RGB1-705x1024.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DanceOfTheBanished_HR_RGB1-1200x1744.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DanceOfTheBanished_HR_RGB1.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 103px) 85vw, 103px\" \/><strong>SKRYPUCH<\/strong>, Marsha Forchuk.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/juniorlibraryguild.com\/books\/view.dT\/9781927485651&amp;?utm_campaign=SLJNewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=SLJTeen\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Dance of the Banished<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. 288p. Pajama Press. ISBN 9781927485651. JLG Level: PBH : Paperbacks High (Grades 10 &amp; Up).<\/p>\n<p>Ali leaves his village in Anatolia so that he can earn enough money to bring his fianc\u00e9, Zeynep, to Canada. Shortly after his departure, the Young Turk revolutionary forces turn on Zeynep\u2019s Armenian Christian neighbors. While she struggles with trying to save the lives of her friends, Ali is captured and sent to an internment camp. Can they survive the war and reunite from an ocean apart?<\/p>\n<p>For readers without prior knowledge of the Armenian genocide and Canadian internment camps from 1914, a visit to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livebinders.com\/play\/play\/1610671?tabid=e377742d-77ea-a282-80d9-dff3cfdcb624\" target=\"_blank\">ArmenianGenocide.org<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>provides background, while the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livebinders.com\/play\/play\/1610671?tabid=54a73bde-84ae-a73c-6848-acf298acd17c\" target=\"_blank\">Kapuskasing Internment Camp website<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>sheds light on Canadian immigration fears. Fans may read the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla2.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">author\u2019s blog<\/a>. How do you pronounce her name? TeachingBooks.net has an<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingbooks.net\/pronounce.cgi?aid=7172&amp;a=1\" target=\"_blank\">audio file<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this School Library Journal Teen column! SKRYPUCH, Marsha Forchuk.\u00a0Dance of the Banished. 288p. Pajama Press. ISBN 9781927485651. JLG Level: PBH : Paperbacks High (Grades 10 &amp; Up). Ali leaves his village in Anatolia so that he can earn enough money to bring his fianc\u00e9, Zeynep, to Canada. Shortly after his departure, the Young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/to-be-considered-a-blockbuster-female-author-how-nice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To be considered a Blockbuster Female Author! How nice!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","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=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}