{"id":509,"date":"2011-07-11T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/?p=509"},"modified":"2011-07-11T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T00:15:08","slug":"erins-pick-of-the-week-to-timbuktu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/2011\/07\/11\/erins-pick-of-the-week-to-timbuktu\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin&#8217;s Pick of the Week: To Timbuktu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pick of the week is becoming more of a pick of the fortnight.\u00a0 But either way, this book fits this summer&#8217;s theme of travel and world cultures perfectly!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wmars.cwmars.org\/search~S11\/?searchtype=t&amp;searcharg=To+Timbuktu&amp;searchscope=11&amp;sortdropdown=-&amp;SORT=D&amp;extended=0&amp;searchlimits=&amp;searchorigarg=tcatching+fire\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"To Timbuktu\" src=\"http:\/\/contentcafe2.btol.com\/ContentCafe\/Jacket.aspx?UserID=EBSCO2&amp;Password=CWMARS&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=L&amp;Value=9781596435278\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"521\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book tells the true story of Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg who met and fell in love while they were both studying abroad in Morocco.\u00a0 After they graduated from college, they embarked on a journey through Asia and Africa (with a brief stop in France), where they\u00a0ate the food, saw the sights, and tried to get to know the people.\u00a0 Casey writes, Steven draws, and together they share the good times and the bad of their adventures through different countries and cultures, and the adventure of trying to figure out what to do after college.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link an interview with the authors from\u00a0School Library Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slj.com\/slj\/articlereview\/890858-451\/its_two_for_the_road.html.csp\">http:\/\/www.slj.com\/slj\/articlereview\/890858-451\/its_two_for_the_road.html.csp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick of the week is becoming more of a pick of the fortnight.\u00a0 But either way, this book fits this summer&#8217;s theme of travel and world cultures perfectly! This book tells the true story of Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg who met and fell in love while they were both studying abroad in Morocco.\u00a0 After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/2011\/07\/11\/erins-pick-of-the-week-to-timbuktu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Erin&#8217;s Pick of the Week: To Timbuktu&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}