{"id":1101,"date":"2013-02-13T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2013-02-27T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T14:41:21","slug":"the-summer-i-turned-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"The Summer I Turned Pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1122\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/summerpretty1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/summerpretty1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"summerpretty\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1122\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Walmart.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>Lia Horyczun \u201816<br \/>\n<em>EE <\/em>Staff Writer <\/p>\n<p>Jenny Han\u2019s book called <em>The Summer I Turned Pretty <\/em>was published by Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers in New York during 2009. Han, who has written  numerous books, is the author of <em>Shug<\/em>, <em>Fire With Fire<\/em>, and <em>Burn For Burn<\/em>. <em>The Summer I Turned Pretty <\/em>, geared towards female audiences, is currently being turned into a television series and the author will be touring USA this year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Taking place in the summer house at the beach, Belly Conklin finally turned 16. Her mother, Laura, is best friends with Susannah Fisher, and Susannah has two sons, Jeremiah and Conrad. Belly has known them since she had her first summer there, but this summer is not the same as any previous summers. Belly is changing in many ways.  Belly\u2019s love for Conrad grows stronger and her friendship with Jeremiah is binding them together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery summer up to this one, I believed it\u2019d be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was. I was.\u201d Belly\u2019s summer is full of love, friendship, and the coming of age.<\/p>\n<p>Han uses life-like characters to help the reader feel what each is going through. <em>The Summer I Turned Pretty <\/em> is also part of a series and the first book and the third book,<em> We\u2019ll Always Have Summer <\/em>are the strongest, but the second book, <em>It\u2019s Not Summer Without<\/em> <em>You <\/em>is not weak. It\u2019s just predictable. This book receives a 9 out of 10 stars because of Jenny Han ability to shows romance in The Summer trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lia Horyczun \u201816 EE Staff Writer Jenny Han\u2019s book called The Summer I Turned Pretty was published by Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers in New York during 2009. Han, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}