{"id":189,"date":"2019-09-05T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maryann.norlink.net\/?post_type=books&#038;p=189"},"modified":"2025-09-08T23:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T23:32:57","slug":"where-you-belong","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/book\/where-you-belong\/","title":{"rendered":"Where You Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Originally published in 1997 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, <\/em>Where You Belong<em> was chosen by the National Book Foundation as a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People\u2019s Literature. The New York Public Library also named the book to its list of Best Books for the Teen Age.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Forbidden Friendship<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s October 11, 1963, in the Bronx, New York. Thirteen-year-old Fiona, her mother, and three siblings have just been evicted from their apartment. Now the family must move in with Aunt Maggie and her six kids. Better to go to Daddy&#8217;s place, Fiona&#8217;s brother tells her. Better to risk getting beaten than to go someplace you don&#8217;t belong.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beating does come, and Fiona runs away in terror. By the time she realizes how far she&#8217;s gone, she is in an all-black neighborhood &#8211; a place her Irish-American parents talk about with scorn. She&#8217;s alone, hungry, with no choices left.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along the way, Fiona is reunited with Yolanda Baker, an old classmate. They were never able to be real friends at school &#8211; a friendship between a black girl and a white girl was rare in the Bronx. But today is going to be different. Two girls who don&#8217;t feel they belong anywhere will find a special place to belong &#8211; with each other. Can their friendship survive? The streets of the Bronx offer a path for a powerful journey of self-discovery.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1335,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-189","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-young-adult"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}