{"id":250,"date":"2008-11-03T23:08:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T03:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/review-of-punished-by-david-lubar\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T02:48:00","slug":"review-of-punished-by-david-lubar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Review of Punished, by David Lubar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image255\" height=\"240\" alt=\"punished.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/punished.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Punished!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by David Lubar<\/p>\n<p>Darby Creek Publishing, 2006.\u00a0 96 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlubar.com\/\">http:\/\/www.davidlubar.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darbycreekpublishing.com\/\">http:\/\/www.darbycreekpublishing.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logan knew he shouldn&#8217;t run in the library.\u00a0 But how can you keep from it when your friend tags you It?\u00a0 He certainly didn&#8217;t mean to run into that old guy who looked like a retired teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Logan tries to apologize, but the man says maybe he needs to be punished, and blows some book dust on him.\u00a0 When Logan leaves the library, suddenly everything he says gets people groaning or giggling.<\/p>\n<p>It takes Logan awhile to figure out that every sentence he utters comes out as a bad pun.\u00a0 Soon the old man isn&#8217;t the only one planning to punish him.<\/p>\n<p>Logan&#8217;s only way to lift the curse involves finding oxymorons, anagrams, and palindromes.\u00a0 If he can&#8217;t find the required number in time, he will be cursed to spout puns forever.<\/p>\n<p>This book celebrates word play in a way that invites the reader to try it for yourself.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a nice quick read for\u00a0groan boys and girls\u00a0ready for full-fledged chapter books.\u00a0 Silly fun with silly puns!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1581960638\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\"><font color=\"#0b76ae\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/punished.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/punished.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Punished! by David Lubar Darby Creek Publishing, 2006.\u00a0 96 pages. http:\/\/www.davidlubar.com\/ http:\/\/www.darbycreekpublishing.com\/ Logan knew he shouldn&#8217;t run in the library.\u00a0 But how can you keep from it when your friend tags you It?\u00a0 He certainly didn&#8217;t mean to run into that old guy who looked like a retired teacher. Logan tries to apologize, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-contemporary","category-humorous","category-light-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}