{"id":1495,"date":"2018-08-14T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2018-06-17T18:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T22:50:35","slug":"book-review-the-screaming-season-by-nancy-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Screaming Season by Nancy Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/screamingseason.JPG\" width=\"128\" height=\"193\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Ward Trade Paperback, March 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISBN: 978-1456546861<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Available: New and used soft cover and in Nook and Kindle e-book formats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy Holder\u2019s\u00a0<em>Possessions<\/em>\u00a0series has been an unexpected personal favorite of mine. Her third installment,\u00a0<em>The Screaming Season<\/em>, did not fail to disappoint. I wasn\u2019t sure I could possibly enjoy the series anymore than I already did, but I was quite wrong. Of the three books in the series,\u00a0<em>The Screaming Season<\/em>\u00a0is the most intense and action packed, leaving me wide-eyed with a racing heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0<em>Possessions<\/em>\u00a0series is an incredibly spooky tale\u00a0full of scorned lovers, murders, attempted murders, ghosts, and of course, possessions. \u00a0<em>The Screaming Season\u00a0<\/em>is no exception, and Lindsay, our heroine, is back on the Marlwood Academy campus, ready to fight of the ghosts that stalk and possess the campus residents. Her biggest challenge now is trying to maintain her sanity and belief in her sanity by her fellow students and teachers, staying alive in the process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The Screaming Season<\/em>, in addition to the first two books series:\u00a0<em>Possessions<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Evil Within<\/em>\u00a0are must-haves for libraries\u2019 young adult fiction collections. While these titles are geared toward young adults, adult readers will find them enjoyable as well with a jump-right-in feel to the action. Recommended for school and public young adult collections; ages 14 and up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contains: mild violence<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reviewed by: Kelly Fann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Ward Trade Paperback, March 2011 ISBN: 978-1456546861 Available: New and used soft cover and in Nook and Kindle e-book formats. Nancy Holder\u2019s\u00a0Possessions\u00a0series has been an unexpected personal favorite of mine. Her third installment,\u00a0The Screaming Season, did not fail to disappoint. I wasn\u2019t sure I could possibly enjoy the series anymore than I already did, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,123],"tags":[272],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-ghosts","tag-nancy-holder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-o7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}