{"id":496,"date":"2011-06-20T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T23:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/?p=496"},"modified":"2011-06-20T19:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T23:30:57","slug":"anyas-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/2011\/06\/20\/anyas-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin’s Pick of the Week (or so): Anya’s Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How would you like to have your own ghost? A secret invisible friend, who could do things for you like helping you find out the answers on a tough test, or finding out where that cute boy or girl will be between classes, or\u00a0scaring your little brother… Sounds good, right? Um, maybe not.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Russian American teen Anya, things are not going so well.\u00a0 She feels fat, she’s bored at school, and she doesn’t really have any friends.\u00a0 When an accident puts her face to face with the ghost of Emily Reilly, things get a bit more interesting.\u00a0 But what is this ghost really after? Anya is\u00a0about to find out.<\/p>\n

Drawn in a black and white style that is reminsicent of Persepolis, the visuals of this comic book convey a lot of action and expression.\u00a0 Anya’s moods show clearly on her face, school scenes look realistic, and more supernatural\u00a0scenes take on a life of their own.\u00a0 Over the course of a straightforward story, Anya faces fears, finds friends, and makes a bit of peace with her imperfections.\u00a0 A quick, fun, read for anybody who likes stories where strange things happen to average teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How would you like to have your own ghost? A secret invisible friend, who could do things for you like helping you find out the answers on a tough test, or finding out where that cute boy or girl will be between classes, or\u00a0scaring your little brother… Sounds good, right? Um, maybe not.\u00a0\u00a0 For Russian … Continue reading “Erin’s Pick of the Week (or so): Anya’s Ghost”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}