{"id":13119,"date":"2012-04-18T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=13119"},"modified":"2012-04-18T12:29:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:29:47","slug":"steve-watkins-novel-named-to-best-books-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2012\/04\/18\/steve-watkins-novel-named-to-best-books-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Watkins&#8217; Novel Named to &#8220;Best Books&#8221; List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?attachment_id=5170\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5170\" title=\"Watkins, Stephen06\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Watkins-Stephen06-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Professor of English Steve Watkins\u2019 2011 young adult novel \u201cWhat Comes After\u201d has been named to Bank Street\u2019s list of 2012 Best Books of the Year. \u201cWhat Comes After\u201d is one of 46 books in the category for children older than 14-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank Street College of Education chose the books for the annual list based on several criteria, including literary quality and the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Bank Street is a private institution composed of children\u2019s programs, a graduate school and a research and policy initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Watkins\u2019 novel also is a finalist for the 2012-2013 Georgia Peach Book Award, given by the Georgia Library Media Association, Georgia Library Association, Georgia Public Library Service and the Georgia Education Association. Watkins is one of 20 nominees in the teen readers category. Teens will read and rate the books to determine the winner of the award, which will be announced in April 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?attachment_id=5170\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5170\" title=\"Watkins, Stephen06\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Watkins-Stephen06-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Professor of English Steve Watkins\u2019 2011 young adult novel \u201cWhat Comes After\u201d has been named to Bank Street\u2019s list of 2012 Best Books of the Year. \u201cWhat Comes After\u201d is one of 46 books in the category for children older than 14-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank Street College of Education chose the books for the annual list based on several criteria, including literary quality and the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Bank Street is a private institution composed of children\u2019s programs, a graduate school and a research and policy initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Watkins\u2019 novel also is a finalist for the 2012-2013 Georgia Peach Book Award, given by the Georgia Library Media Association, Georgia Library Association, Georgia Public Library Service and the Georgia Education Association. Watkins is one of 20 nominees in the teen readers category. Teens will read and rate the books to determine the winner of the award, which will be announced in April 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5991,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[9043,863],"class_list":{"0":"post-13119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-notes","8":"tag-department-of-english-linguistics-and-communication","9":"tag-steve-watkins","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}