{"id":925,"date":"2008-11-01T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=925"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:01:28","slug":"slant-by-laura-e-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/slant-by-laura-e-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Slant by Laura E. Williams [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Slant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-29965\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Slant.jpg\" alt=\"Slant\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>For years, 13-year-old Korean adoptee Lauren has endured the usual racial taunts for looking so different amidst her homogeneous fellow students in suburban Connecticut. Her\u00a0popular and fearless\u00a0best friend has done a far better job speaking up for her than Lauren herself! She&#8217;s convinced that surgery to her epicanthic fold-less eyes is the only way to fix her social problems and somehow even manages to convince her hapless father to agree. \u00a0Will she or won&#8217;t she?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: \u201cTBR\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2008,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-926\" title=\"slant\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/slant.jpg\" alt=\"slant\" width=\"127\" height=\"193\" \/>For years, 13-year-old Korean adoptee Lauren has endured the usual racial taunts for looking so different amidst her homogeneous fellow students in suburban Connecticut. Her popular and fearless best friend has done a far better job speaking up for her than Lauren herself! She&#8217;s convinced that surgery to her epicanthic fold-less eyes is the only way to fix her social problems and somehow even manages to convince her hapless father to agree.  Will she or won&#8217;t she? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: \u201cTBR\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2008,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,38,30,6535,31],"tags":[82,83,1968,6608,58,11,36,51,2895,3578],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-korean-american","category-middle-grade-readers","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-adoption","tag-assimilation","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-friendship","tag-girl-power","tag-identity","tag-laura-e-williams","tag-slant"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Slant by Laura E. 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