{"id":2103,"date":"2018-03-21T20:17:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/calico-joe-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:58:48","slug":"calico-joe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/calico-joe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Calico Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      FlumeAward &#8211; Calico Joe                <em><a class=\"wiki_link_ext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhu-pac.library.state.nh.us\/ipac20\/ipac.jsp?&amp;profile=nhais&amp;uri=link=3100024~!3651542~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=reserves&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=1&amp;source=~!nh_nhupac&amp;term=Calico+Joe+%2F&amp;index=ALLTITL\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Calico Joe<\/a><\/em> by John Grisham<\/p>\n<p>A novel, featuring coming-of-age, baseball, and forgiveness. This is just a nice story &#8211; enough baseball to keep teens reading and a message of the grace of forgiveness. This might be a good adult\/teen crossover selection for the list. I can certainly think of some students at my school who will enjoy this quick read. ~ Sharon Flesher, Nashua High South<\/p>\n<p>Considering it was a book primarily about baseball, I kind of enjoyed it. I thought it was nice that the main character, Paul, could just not care too much about his father after abuse and abandonment, as opposed to letting it destroy him. I found myself asking my husband if Calico Joe and Warren Tracey were real players, as I recognized other names as the story went on. Unfortunately, he dislikes baseball nearly as much as I do, so that was no help. The story of forgiveness and redemption was what held my interest. If a girl\/non-baseball fan was compelled to read it, this would be what would keep their interest. It&#8217;s not a classic Grisham law thriller, so there probably won&#8217;t be much appeal there, either. <br \/>Primarily, this will appeal to boys\/baseball fans. It is a quick read for teens\/adults.<br \/>-Kirsten Rundquist Corbett, Lane Memorial Library, Hampton      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlumeAward &#8211; Calico Joe Calico Joe by John Grisham A novel, featuring coming-of-age, baseball, and forgiveness. This is just a nice story &#8211; enough baseball to keep teens reading and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"btn btn-inverse btn-normal btn-primary \" href=\"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/calico-joe-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flume-award-titles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}