{"id":87,"date":"2010-04-30T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:05:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-05T01:53:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T01:53:14","slug":"amy-blanchard-efaw-h3-wins-borders-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Amy Blanchard Efaw (H3) Wins Borders Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amy Blanchard Efaw&#39;s (H3) &#39;89<\/strong>&nbsp;novel for teens, AFTER, won Border&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/borders-announces-2009-original-voices-award-winners-81521202.html\">&quot;Original Voices&quot; Award for 2009<\/a> in the children&#39;s\/young adult book category.&nbsp; Through the award, Borders recognizes original and compelling works by new authors in such categories as Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children\/Young Adult.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Children\/Young Adult:&nbsp; &quot;After,&quot; by&nbsp;Amy Efaw&nbsp;and published by Penguin (Viking), is the Original Voices winner in the Children\/Young Adult Category. Emotionally raw and gut wrenching, Efaw&#39;s &quot;After&quot; is the unforgettable story of straight-A-student&nbsp;Devon Davenport&nbsp;who becomes pregnant, gives birth in her apartment and then does the unthinkable&mdash;throws the baby in the dumpster. Through skillful writing, Efaw sets Davenport on a course of clarity, acceptance and redemption and brings readers along for the journey. The selection committee found that &quot;By all of today&#39;s standards, Davenport should be a despicable character, though through airtight storytelling, Efaw pulls readers into the thought process of the character and allows them to actually sympathize with her.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Blanchard Efaw&#39;s (H3) &#39;89&nbsp;novel for teens, AFTER, won Border&#39;s &quot;Original Voices&quot; Award for 2009 in the children&#39;s\/young adult book category.&nbsp; Through the award, Borders recognizes original and compelling works by new authors in such categories as Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children\/Young Adult. Children\/Young Adult:&nbsp; &quot;After,&quot; by&nbsp;Amy Efaw&nbsp;and published by Penguin (Viking), is the Original Voices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}