{"id":954,"date":"2008-11-01T15:11:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T19:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=954"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:01:07","slug":"alvin-ho-allergic-to-girls-school-and-other-scary-things-by-lenore-look-illustrated-by-leuyen-pham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/alvin-ho-allergic-to-girls-school-and-other-scary-things-by-lenore-look-illustrated-by-leuyen-pham\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look, illustrated by LeUyen Pham [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Alvin-Ho-Allergic-to-Girls-School-....jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29945\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Alvin-Ho-Allergic-to-Girls-School-....jpg\" alt=\"Alvin Ho Allergic to Girls, School ...\" width=\"340\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>When Alvin Ho gets scared, he can\u2019t seem to talk &#8230; especially at school. Unfortunately, he&#8217;s frightened of just about everything, which is really not a good thing when you&#8217;re supposed to be a big second-grader! But family and friends \u2013 including an eye-patch-wearing feisty little girl named Flea \u00a0\u2013 help him find his voice, Shakespeare curses and all! Delightful, laugh-out-loud-fun indeed!<\/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>Tidbit<\/strong>: This just in March 30, 2010 &#8230; egads! <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/afuse8production\/2010\/03\/30\/growl-audio-book-cover-discussion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Whitewashing 21st-century style in the Midwest<\/a>??!! Can this BE more egregious? Scroll down to see the offensive audio version cover!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/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-956\" title=\"alvin-ho-allergic-to-girls1\" alt=\"alvin-ho-allergic-to-girls1\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/alvin-ho-allergic-to-girls1.jpg\" width=\"127\" height=\"192\" \/>When Alvin Ho gets scared, he can\u2019t seem to talk &#8230; especially at school. Unfortunately, he&#8217;s frightened of just about everything, which is really not a good thing when you&#8217;re supposed to be a big second-grader! But family and friends \u2013 including an eye-patch-wearing feisty little girl named Flea \u00a0\u2013 help him find his voice, Shakespeare curses and all! Delightful, laugh-out-loud-fun indeed!<\/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>Tidbit<\/strong>: This just in March 30, 2010 &#8230; egads! <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/afuse8production\/2010\/03\/30\/growl-audio-book-cover-discussion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whitewashing 21st-century style in the Midwest<\/a>??!! Can this BE more egregious? Scroll down to see the offensive audio version cover!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,30,6535],"tags":[3588,1968,6608,10,11,397,547,102,39,42,630],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-middle-grade-readers","category-repost","tag-alvin-ho-allergic-to-girls-school-and-other-scary-things","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-humor","tag-lenore-look","tag-leuyen-pham","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-series","tag-series-alvin-ho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look, illustrated by LeUyen Pham [in Bloomsbury Review] - 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\/alvin-ho-allergic-to-girls-school-and-other-scary-things-by-lenore-look-illustrated-by-leuyen-pham\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look, illustrated by LeUyen Pham [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When Alvin Ho gets scared, he can\u2019t seem to talk ... especially at school. 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