{"id":5097,"date":"2005-01-06T20:54:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T00:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:56:08","slug":"3-doors-choose-wisely-by-kiane-simeon-and-rochelle-simeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/3-doors-choose-wisely-by-kiane-simeon-and-rochelle-simeon\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Doors: Choose Wisely by Kiane Simeon and Rochelle Simeon [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/01\/3-Doors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31104\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/01\/3-Doors.jpg\" alt=\"3 Doors\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>A young adult tale about a unique bookstore where a mysterious host urges a motley group of neighborhood kids to choose the adventure behind one of three doors. While the premise is somewhat promising (<em>Narnia <\/em>comes to mind), the Simeon sisters\u2019 writing is overly clever and self-conscious, with a cast of characters who quickly become plain annoying. Maybe it\u2019s an age thing \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2005-01-06-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, January 6, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4278\" title=\"3 Doors\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/3-doors.jpg\" alt=\"3 Doors\" width=\"128\" height=\"110\" \/>A young adult tale about a unique bookstore where a mysterious host urges a motley group of neighborhood kids to choose the adventure behind one of three doors. While the premise is somewhat promising (<em>Narnia <\/em>comes to mind), the Simeon sisters\u2019 writing is overly clever and self-conscious, with a cast of characters who quickly become plain annoying. Maybe it\u2019s an age thing \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2005-01-06-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, January 6, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30,60,6535,31],"tags":[3640,32,3598,6608,11,3641,3642,35],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-middle-grade-readers","category-nonethnic-specific","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-3-doors","tag-adventure","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-friendship","tag-kiane-simeon","tag-rochelle-simeon","tag-speculative-fantasy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>3 Doors: Choose Wisely by Kiane Simeon and Rochelle Simeon [in AsianWeek] - 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\/3-doors-choose-wisely-by-kiane-simeon-and-rochelle-simeon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 Doors: Choose Wisely by Kiane Simeon and Rochelle Simeon [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A young adult tale about a unique bookstore where a mysterious host urges a motley group of neighborhood kids to choose the adventure behind one of three doors. 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