{"id":959,"date":"2008-11-01T15:25:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T19:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=959"},"modified":"2018-06-11T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:48:34","slug":"minn-jakes-almost-terrible-summer-by-janet-s-wong-illustrated-by-genevieve-cote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/minn-jakes-almost-terrible-summer-by-janet-s-wong-illustrated-by-genevieve-cote\/","title":{"rendered":"Minn &amp; Jake\u2019s Almost Terrible Summer by Janet S. Wong, illustrated by Genevi\u00e8ve C\u00f4t\u00e9 [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Minn-and-Jakes-Almost-Terrible-Summer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-29938\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Minn-and-Jakes-Almost-Terrible-Summer.jpg\" alt=\"Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer\" width=\"393\" height=\"648\" \/><\/a>Written in sparse free verse, <a href=\"http:\/\/janetwong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Janet Wong<\/a>\u00a0perceptively captures the elliptical communication of two best friends \u2013 caught in that nebulous zone of preteen angst \u2013\u00a0whose summer starts off with too many misunderstandings.<\/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<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/minn-and-jake-almost-terrible-summer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/minn-and-jake-almost-terrible-summer.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Minn and Jake Almost Terrible Summer\" width=\"117\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12852\" \/><\/a>Written in sparse free verse, <a href=\"http:\/\/janetwong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Janet Wong<\/a>\u00a0perceptively captures the elliptical communication of two best friends \u2013 caught in that nebulous zone of preteen angst \u2013\u00a0whose summer starts off with too many misunderstandings.<\/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<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,197,38,30,94,6535,7933],"tags":[1968,6608,58,11,3589,2417,3590,145],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-hapa","category-korean-american","category-middle-grade-readers","category-poetry","category-repost","category-verse-novel","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-friendship","tag-genevieve-cote","tag-janet-s-wong","tag-minn-jakes-almost-terrible-summer","tag-mixed-race-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minn &amp; Jake\u2019s Almost Terrible Summer by Janet S. 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