Ben and Joe are gobbling up the books. We beg, we borrow, we buy books, books and more books to keep up with their ferocious appetites. \u00a0I know many of you are in the same boat and it’s always nice to get a lead on a new author or book series for the kids. So here are a few that have made it into the 4 to 5 star category for Ben (age 12.5) and Joe (age 10).<\/p>\n
*\u00a05 Stars for The True Meaning of Smek Day<\/em>, by Adam Rex<\/a><\/p>\n * 5 Stars for Horns and Wrinkles<\/em>, by Joseph Helgerson<\/a><\/p>\n * 5 Stars for Superfudge<\/em>, by Judy Blume<\/a><\/p>\n * 5 Stars for Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat<\/em>, Lynne Jonell<\/a><\/p>\n * 4.5 Stars for Ravens Gate,<\/em> by Anthony Horowitz<\/a><\/p>\n * 4.5 Stars for <\/a>Evil Star<\/a><\/em>, by Anthony Horowitz<\/a><\/p>\n *\u00a04.0 Stars for Tracker<\/em>, by Gary Paulsen<\/a><\/p>\n * 4.0 Stars for <\/a>Surviving Antarctica<\/a><\/em>, by Andrea White<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ben and Joe are gobbling up the books. We beg, we borrow, we buy books, books and more books to keep up with their ferocious appetites. \u00a0I know many of you are in the same boat and it’s always nice to get a lead on a new author or book series for the kids. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}