{"id":5199,"date":"2020-10-01T07:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:16:36","slug":"reading-recommendations-before-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5199","title":{"rendered":"Reading Recommendations Before Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ccyal.utk.edu\/book-lists\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2020\/10\/ccyalbestof.JPG\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nI love to be a part every July of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ccyal.utk.edu\/\">Center for Children&#8217;s and Young Adult Literature&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> (CCYAL) &#8220;Best of the Best&#8221; conference at the University of Tennessee, in which I gather with other librarians and book critics to discuss the most outstanding books we&#8217;ve seen in that year. Because of the pandemic, we didn&#8217;t gather this year. But after asking each of us presenters to name a few favorite books of the year, the CCYAL still created a list. If you&#8217;d like to see everyone&#8217;s recommendations (books published, generally speaking, in the latter part of 2019 and first half of 2020), the list is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ccyal.utk.edu\/book-lists\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. You can also click on the image above to be taken to the list. <\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I love to be a part every July of the Center for Children&#8217;s and Young Adult Literature&#8217;s (CCYAL) &#8220;Best of the Best&#8221; conference at the University of Tennessee, in which I gather with other librarians and book critics to discuss the most outstanding books we&#8217;ve seen in that year. Because of the pandemic, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books","category-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}