{"id":1143,"date":"2016-10-05T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2016-10-26T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:39:14","slug":"ms-haigh-reads-the-nest-by-kenneth-oppel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/2016\/10\/05\/ms-haigh-reads-the-nest-by-kenneth-oppel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Haigh reads &#8211; The Nest by Kenneth Oppel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1144\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/2016\/10\/05\/ms-haigh-reads-the-nest-by-kenneth-oppel\/b2515ea5-79c8-412f-b619-004f7e75cc3fimg400\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1144\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/files\/2016\/10\/B2515EA5-79C8-412F-B619-004F7E75CC3FImg400.jpg\" alt=\"The Nest book Cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/files\/2016\/10\/B2515EA5-79C8-412F-B619-004F7E75CC3FImg400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/files\/2016\/10\/B2515EA5-79C8-412F-B619-004F7E75CC3FImg400-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nest book Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Nest<\/span> by Kenneth Oppel is a quick page turner that is both creepy and haunting.<\/p>\n<p>Steve is a young man who will do anything to help his sickly newborn baby brother. Haunted by bad dreams, Steve&#8217;s reality and his imagination start to blur throughout the story and leave him constantly worrying and full of\u00a0anxiety. Instead of relaxing for the summer, Steve spends his vacation fixated on the fact that his life feels like it\u00a0is spinning out control. \u00a0But when a mysterious stranger comes to him in a dream and offers a way to make is brother better, how can Steve say no? But this deal is full of loopholes and may have disastrous consequences that will leave Steve fighting for more than just his baby brother&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is this eerie story an enjoyable read, but it is also littered with dark and creepy illustrations by\u00a0Jon Klassen and is definitely worth\u00a0checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nest by Kenneth Oppel is a quick page turner that is both creepy and haunting. Steve is a young man who will do anything to help his sickly newborn baby brother. Haunted by bad dreams, Steve&#8217;s reality and his <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/2016\/10\/05\/ms-haigh-reads-the-nest-by-kenneth-oppel\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[40,36,26,38,39,24,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}