A lyrical, debut middle grade novel with a touch of magical realism and LGBTQ+ themes, about first friendship, first love, and finding self-acceptance from National Book Award winning author Kacen Callender.<\/p>\r\n
12-year-old Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Child, having been born during a hurricane in the US Virgin Islands which is said to be a sign of bad luck. Caroline has certainly had her share: she\u2019s hated by her classmates and was abandoned by her mother years before. She can also see things others can\u2019t\u2014at least until the new girl Kalinda crosses her path, who can see the same ghostly figures as Caroline. In the midst of a building hurricane and while discovering a crush on her new classmate despite the local homophobia, Caroline sets out to find her mother\u2014and answers\u2014once and for all.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lyrical, debut middle grade novel with a touch of magical realism and LGBTQ+ themes, about first friendship, first love, and finding self-acceptance from National Book Award winning author Kacen Callender. 12-year-old Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Child, having been born during a hurricane in the US Virgin Islands which is said to be a […]","protected":false},"author":[131],"featured_media":1623,"parent":239,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"content_book_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[134,132,130,120,82,73,135,136],"rights_available":[122,123,124],"literary_agent":[141],"publication_year":[232],"class_list":["post-267","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-grade","tag-bullying","tag-coming-of-age","tag-diverse","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-lgbtqia","tag-literary","tag-magical-realism","rights_available-dramatic","rights_available-translation","rights_available-uk","author-kacen-callender","literary_agent-beth-phelan","publication_year-232"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/3122"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"rights_available","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rights_available?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"literary_agent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_agent?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"publication_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_year?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}