{"id":2030,"date":"2015-12-09T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2015-12-09T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:00:18","slug":"back-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Back in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday I returned to <strong>Alexandra Park School <\/strong>for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1751\">second<\/a> session there as a <strong>Book Doctor<\/strong>. Over the course of the day I took appointments with eight students from Year 8, trying to find each one of them <strong>a book that would\u00a0exactly suit that person<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s what I &#8216;prescribed&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BookDoctoring081215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BookDoctoring081215-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"BookDoctoring081215\" width=\"510\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BookDoctoring081215-1024x571.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BookDoctoring081215-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ice Station<\/strong> by <strong>Matthew Reilly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Frozen Charlotte<\/strong> by <strong>Alex Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I Am Not A Serial Killer<\/strong> by <strong>Dan Wells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Knife of Never Letting Go <\/strong>by <strong>Patrick Ness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Maus<\/strong> by <strong>Art Spiegelman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Trouble <\/strong>by <strong>Non Pratt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TWOC <\/strong>by <strong>Graham Joyce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>True Grit<\/strong> by <strong>Charles Portis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Model Under Cover <\/strong>by <strong>Carina Axelsson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Only Forward<\/strong> by <strong>Michael Marshall Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Unwind<\/strong> by <strong>Neal Shusterman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Everything is Fine<\/strong> by <strong>Cathy Brett<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A World Between Us <\/strong>by <strong>Lydia Syson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Time<\/strong> and <strong>Flood<\/strong> by <strong>Stephen Baxter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-and, though not pictured-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Recruit<\/strong> by <strong>Robert Muchamore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Graceling <\/strong>by <strong>Kristin Cashore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks again to the staff at APS for another lovely warm welcome, and to the students I met for what were some fascinating discussions. Among these unique individuals the only pattern I could discern was that some said they&#8217;d reached a point where they&#8217;d had enough of what they&#8217;d liked before and were ready to <strong>try something new<\/strong>. I hope I helped them find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I returned to Alexandra Park School for my second session there as a Book Doctor. Over the course of the day I took appointments with eight students from Year 8, trying to find each one of them a book that would\u00a0exactly suit that person. Here&#8217;s what I &#8216;prescribed&#8217;: Ice Station by Matthew Reilly Frozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patron-of-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}