{"id":9586,"date":"2017-09-29T09:19:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T16:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2017-09-29T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:05:28","slug":"award-winning-author-emphasizes-the-importance-of-reading-to-ruby-drive-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=9586","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning author emphasizes the importance of reading to Ruby Drive students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby Drive Elementary School students in grades\u00a0four through\u00a0six were recently treated to a visit by author Alane Adams.\u00a0 Adams is the author of two different book series \u2013 the fantasy series, <em>Legends of Orkeny, <\/em>and the children\u2019s picture book series, <em>The Coal Thief.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first book in the <em>Legends of Orkeny<\/em> series, <em>The Red Sun<\/em>, is a USA Book Award winner for Best Children\u2019s Fiction. Adams shared with students how reading is like a super power. She demonstrated that, through reading, you develop creativity skills. She emphasized to students that the more they read, the better readers they become. Adams also discussed how reading provides an escape from our everyday lives and can take us places all around the world without ever leaving where we actually are! Students were delighted and motivated by Adams\u2019 dynamic, entertaining talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby Drive Elementary School students in grades\u00a0four through\u00a0six were recently treated to a visit by author Alane Adams.\u00a0 Adams is the author of two different&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168],"tags":[1558,56],"class_list":["post-9586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","tag-ruby-drive-cougars","tag-ruby-drive-elementary-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}