{"id":2281,"date":"2018-03-21T20:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/jasper-jones-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:58:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:58:54","slug":"jasper-jones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/jasper-jones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasper Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      FlumeAward &#8211; Jasper Jones                <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~!3504630~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=reserves&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=1&amp;source=~!nh_nhupac&amp;term=Jasper+Jones+%3A+a+novel+%2F&amp;index=ALLTITL\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jasper Jones<\/a><\/em> by Craig Silvey<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d compare this to a modern day Australian version of To Kill A Mockingbird. Very interesting outsider characters, intricate plotting, and dark societal issues that these kids must face in their community. Beautiful writing. Great book for upper high school level kids.<\/p>\n<p>This was a good story with well developed characters. The language is a little odd at times because it is an Australian novel &#8211; for example, Jasper sleeps in his sleepout. There is a lot here on bullying, racism and a lot of teen-like thinking about people and how they act, what death is all about. I didn&#8217;t like that Jasper often refered to himself as a pansy or acting like a girl which is a bit offensive. The characters are young, between 12 and 14 but act older &#8211; beyond their maturity, they are drinking and smoking and there is some strong language here as well. Mostly, the book started to feel long to me like Silvey was juggling a lot of balls and they ended up too much. ~ Sharon Flesher, Nashua High South      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlumeAward &#8211; Jasper Jones Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey I&#8217;d compare this to a modern day Australian version of To Kill A Mockingbird. Very interesting outsider characters, intricate plotting, and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"btn btn-inverse btn-normal btn-primary \" href=\"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/jasper-jones-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-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flume-award-titles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","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=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}