{"id":1303,"date":"2008-10-21T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2008-10-20T16:56:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T22:56:57","slug":"all-iowa-reads-2009-selection-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/all-iowa-reads-2009-selection-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"All Iowa Reads 2009 Selection Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm70883068&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1331 alignleft\" title=\"the-rope-walk\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/the-rope-walk.jpg?resize=152%2C231&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/the-rope-walk.jpg?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/the-rope-walk.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>Announced on October 17, the 2009 selection for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowacenterforthebook.org\/features\/rw\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Iowa Reads<\/a><\/strong> program was is <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm70883068&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">The Rope Walk<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Carrie Brown. Opening on Alice MacCauley&#8217;s tenth birthday, this is a luminous story of one girl&#8217;s coming-of-age during a fateful New England summer. Raised by her widower father and doting older brothers, Alice learns about how different the worlds of adults and children can be when she befriends a local artist dying of AIDS and the neighbor&#8217;s visiting mixed-race grandson. Beautifully written, this exploration of love, tolerance, racism and death told from a child&#8217;s view brings a unique perspective to the world we live in.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to watch the Davenport Library&#8217;s newsletter and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/pr\/\" target=\"_blank\">News and Events blog<\/a><\/strong> throughout the following year for information on programs and book talks exploring <em>The Rope Walk.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced on October 17, the 2009 selection for the All Iowa Reads program was is The Rope Walk by Carrie Brown. Opening on Alice MacCauley&#8217;s tenth birthday, this is a luminous story of one girl&#8217;s coming-of-age during a fateful New England summer. Raised by her widower father and doting older<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/all-iowa-reads-2009-selection-announced\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[265,266],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-websites","tag-aids","tag-coming-of-age"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-l1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}