{"id":37587,"date":"2025-01-20T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37587"},"modified":"2024-11-29T17:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:05:22","slug":"edenville-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37587","title":{"rendered":"EDENVILLE OWLS by Robert B. Parker \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3OdCga8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z012025zview_edenvilleowls.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3OdCga8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EDENVILLE OWLS<\/a>\u00a0by Robert B. Parker<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The radio in our living room was about four feet tall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 1945.\u00a0 The war is over.\u00a0 Bobby is in eighth grade.\u00a0 No longer a kid, but not grown either.\u00a0 His best friends are Russell, Nick, Billy and Manny.\u00a0 Oh, and we can&#8217;t forget Joan.\u00a0 She&#8217;s been a best friend forever, but that relationship may be changing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The school doesn&#8217;t have a basketball team so Bobby and the boys decide to start one.\u00a0 They hope to get into the state tournament.\u00a0 That could be a problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A bigger problem is what is going on with their favorite teacher, Miss Delaney.\u00a0 She&#8217;s the pretty new teacher that is a favorite of the gang.\u00a0 Bobby saw a mean looking man arguing with her.\u00a0 Then Miss Delaney showed up with bruises on her face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bobby and the gang decide to investigate.\u00a0 What they discover keeps them from going to adults.\u00a0 It&#8217;s dangerous but Bobby and the team decide to help Miss Delaney.<\/p>\n<p>+++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m a huge Robert B. Parker fan.\u00a0 His Spencer series influenced a generation of writers.\u00a0 His Cole and Everett westerns were fun.\u00a0 So when Parker decided to write young adult fiction, I decided to go along for the ride.\u00a0 Kids should enjoy it even more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDENVILLE OWLS\u00a0by Robert B. Parker First sentence&#8230; The radio in our living room was about four feet tall. The Overview:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37847,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37587\/revisions\/37847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}