{"id":5555,"date":"2005-09-08T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:55:03","slug":"pa-lias-first-day-by-michelle-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/pa-lias-first-day-by-michelle-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa Lia\u2019s First Day by Michelle Edwards [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/09\/Pa-Lias-First-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30662\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/09\/Pa-Lias-First-Day.jpg\" alt=\"Pa Lia's First Day\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Pa Lia Vang starts her first day of second grade at Jackson Magnet, quickly encounters the \u201cenemy of the second grade,\u201d makes friends with two nicer kids, gets in trouble, but finds herself exonerated for being \u201cbrave\u201d by telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/2009-09-08-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 8, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5556\" title=\"Pa Lia's First Day\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/pa-lias-first-day.jpg\" alt=\"Pa Lia's First Day\" width=\"128\" height=\"193\" \/>Pa Lia Vang starts her first day of second grade at Jackson Magnet, quickly encounters the \u201cenemy of the second grade,\u201d makes friends with two nicer kids, gets in trouble, but finds herself exonerated for being \u201cbrave\u201d by telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/2009-09-08-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 8, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30,27,6535],"tags":[3598,6608,11,3947,3948,79],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-middle-grade-readers","category-pan-asian-pacific-american","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-friendship","tag-michelle-edwards","tag-pa-lias-first-day","tag-school-challenges"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pa Lia\u2019s First Day by Michelle Edwards [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\/pa-lias-first-day-by-michelle-edwards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pa Lia\u2019s First Day by Michelle Edwards [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pa Lia Vang starts her first day of second grade at Jackson Magnet, quickly encounters the \u201cenemy of the second grade,\u201d makes friends with two nicer kids, gets in trouble, but finds herself exonerated for being \u201cbrave\u201d by telling the truth.  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