{"id":43236,"date":"2017-12-18T11:13:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=43236"},"modified":"2017-12-12T22:08:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T03:08:24","slug":"turtles-way-john-green-school-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/turtles-way-john-green-school-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtles All the Way Down by John Green [in School Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42969\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Turtles-All-the-Way-Down-by-John-Green-on-BookDragon-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Turtles-All-the-Way-Down-by-John-Green-on-BookDragon-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Turtles-All-the-Way-Down-by-John-Green-on-BookDragon.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/>With her name, Aza&#8217;s dad bestowed her with possibility: &#8220;It spans the whole alphabet, because we wanted to let you know you can be anything.&#8221; Davis&#8217;s father &#8220;made [him] a junior. Resigned [him] to juniority.&#8221; The two teens have little in common \u2013 Davis is absurdly rich and lives in a staffed mansion, Aza is unsure how her mother will pay for college \u2013 but they share a brief past that overlapped at 11. They&#8217;ve also both lost fathers: Aza&#8217;s is dead, Davis&#8217;s is missing.<\/p>\n<p>Reunited when Aza and BFF Daisy trespass onto Davis&#8217;s compound, Daisy is the first to declare &#8220;IT IS TRUE LOVE.&#8221; Roadblocks are plenty (tidy endings are never a Green guarantee): Aza battles a debilitating fear of deadly bacteria that makes basic interactions challenging, Daisy has secrets she&#8217;s willing to sell, Davis&#8217;s brother Noah is not-so-slowly falling apart, and if the worst happens, a tuatara billionaire will become a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Narrator Kate Rudd takes Green&#8217;s twisty, turny dramas in stride, crafting individuals \u2013 nerves for Aza, resignation for Davis, bouncing energy for Daisy, neediness for Noah \u2013 to create a resonating, unforgettable ensemble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Any new Green title means instant bestseller; in preparation, libraries should acquire multiple copies in all formats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2017-12-01-9725530.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cDVDs and Audio,\u201d <em>School Library Journal<\/em>, December 1, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With her name, Aza&#8217;s dad bestowed her with possibility: &#8220;It spans the whole alphabet, because we wanted to let you know you can be anything.&#8221; Davis&#8217;s father &#8220;made [him] a junior. Resigned [him] to juniority.&#8221; The two teens have little in common \u2013 Davis is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,6,60,6535,31],"tags":[6608,75,10,11,1764,13,7292,39,6704,44,7659],"class_list":["post-43236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-fiction","category-nonethnic-specific","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bookdragon","tag-death","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-john-green","tag-love","tag-mental-illness","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-school-library-journal","tag-siblings","tag-turtles-all-the-way-down"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Turtles All the Way Down by John Green [in School Library Journal] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/turtles-way-john-green-school-library-journal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Turtles All the Way Down by John Green [in School Library Journal] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With her name, Aza&#8217;s dad bestowed her with possibility: &#8220;It spans the whole alphabet, because we wanted to let you know you can be anything.&#8221; Davis&#8217;s father &#8220;made [him] a junior. 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