{"id":362,"date":"2018-01-19T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/library\/?p=362"},"modified":"2018-01-19T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:16:16","slug":"adam-gidwitz-visits-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/library\/2018\/01\/19\/adam-gidwitz-visits-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Gidwitz Visits Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we had the honour of hosting Adam Gidwitz<\/a> \"\"<\/a>in the library for a session with Middle School students.\u00a0 Adam talked about his Newbery Honored<\/a> book The Inquisitor’s Tale (<\/strong>which is also on the Sakura list this year)\"\"<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and life in Medieval Europe, culminating in a question and answer session about writing, being an author and publishing books.<\/p>\n

Adam’s books<\/a> can be checked out from the library.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday we had the honour of hosting Adam Gidwitz in the library for a session with Middle School students.\u00a0 Adam talked about his Newbery Honored book The Inquisitor’s Tale (which is also on the Sakura list this year)\u00a0and life in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":350,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/library\/2018\/01\/19\/adam-gidwitz\/","url_meta":{"origin":362,"position":0},"title":"Adam Gidwitz","author":"Ms Schumacher","date":"January 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Newbery Honored author Adam Gidwitz returned to our library yesterday for a session with 4th and 5th grades. 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