{"id":12008,"date":"2015-03-27T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=12008"},"modified":"2015-03-25T19:14:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T02:14:33","slug":"book-lover-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2015\/03\/book-lover-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Lover : April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is time to revel the GingerScraps book club selection for April, 2015!<\/p>\n

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Our April 2015 book is…. Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall.<\/p>\n

From Amazon the description of this book is as follows,<\/p>\n

“In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother\u2019s Mississippi home. Starla\u2019s destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is\u2014as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is what others are saying about Whistling Past the Graveyard<\/p>\n

“A coming-of-age story as well as a luminous portrait of courage and the bonds of friendship. . . Susan Crandall tells young Starla\u2019s story with pitch-perfect tone, evoking 1963 Mississippi and its struggles with a deft hand. I laughed and cried at Starla\u2019s keen observances of life and family and the sometimes blurred edges of justice. Like Harper Lee\u2019s To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i> and Kathryn Stockett\u2019s The Help<\/i>, Whistling Past the Graveyard<\/i> is destined to become a classic.\u201d (New York Times bestselling author Karen White)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cCrandall delivers big with a coming-of-age story set in Mississippi in 1963 and narrated by a precocious 9-year-old\u2026Young Starla is an endearing character whose spirited observations propel this nicely crafted story.\u201d (Kirkus)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cStarla\u2019s fiery independence makes her a likable narrator.\u201d (Publishers Weekly<\/i>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“A delightfully complex story about defying the odds to find the gifts we have tucked inside us.” (Shelf Awareness)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“This is a work of imagination in the mind of a 9-year-old child that might remind you of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i> or Kathryn Stockett’s The Help<\/i>… It’s a real winner!” (Liz Smith The Chicago Tribune<\/i>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cA luminous portrait of courage and the bonds of friendship, this coming of age story is as endearing and spirited as they come.\u201d (Shape Magazine)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThis coming-of-age story is a must for fans of Kathryn Stockett\u2019s The Help<\/i> or Harper Lee\u2019s classic To Kill a Mockingbird.\u201d<\/i> (Working Mother Magazine)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“It\u2019s not easy to keep such a young narrator convincing for more than 300 pages… Readers will take to Starla and be caught up in her story.” (Mary Ellen Quinn Booklist<\/i>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cCrandall threads historical detail throughout the book as the struggles of the civil rights movement are vividly portrayed\u2026Crandall\u2019s young narrator captures the reader\u2019s heart.\u201d (Library Journal<\/i>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope my fellow book lovers join us in the GingerScraps forum <\/a>to discuss Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall.<\/p>\n

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  It is time to revel the GingerScraps book club selection for April, 2015! Our April 2015 book is…. Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall. From Amazon the description of this book is as follows, “In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother\u2019s Mississippi home. Starla\u2019s destination is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[280],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 19:36:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12008"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12023,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions\/12023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}