{"id":199,"date":"2013-06-22T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2013-06-17T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:10:03","slug":"the-strictest-school-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/the-strictest-school-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Strictest School in the World\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nominated by sixteen year old Susan Z, Howard Whitehouse\u2019s <em>The Strictest School in the World <\/em>\u00a0is a Victorian science-fantasy\u00a0 novel. It\u2019s not old \u2013 2006 \u2013 but it\u2019s written in a tradition of brave youngsters (Emmaline, the fourteen year old pioneer of aviation and Rubberbones, her \u2018indesruckible\u2019 test pilot). When Emmaline is sent to St. Grimelda\u2019s, a savagely cruel school for girls, she works to escape as her outside friends attempt to help. A prison break novel about an 1890s boarding school, this hilarious romp is the first in a series known as the \u2018Madcap Misadventures\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidscanpress.com\/US\/The-Strictest-School-in-the-World-P2983.aspx\">Kids Can Press.<\/a>website offers a chance to read a sample chapter and to look at the other two books in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominated by sixteen year old Susan Z, Howard Whitehouse\u2019s The Strictest School in the World \u00a0is a Victorian science-fantasy\u00a0 novel. It\u2019s not old \u2013 2006 \u2013 but it\u2019s written in a tradition of brave youngsters (Emmaline, the fourteen year old pioneer of aviation and Rubberbones, her \u2018indesruckible\u2019 test pilot). When Emmaline is sent to St. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/the-strictest-school-in-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cThe Strictest School in the World\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-school-childrens-adventure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}