{"id":2992,"date":"2018-01-25T08:04:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2018-06-30T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T16:58:22","slug":"the-one-in-a-million-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/01\/the-one-in-a-million-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"The One-in-a-Million Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Monica Wood – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quinn is a professional musician, perennially on the road, who feels remorse for missing so much of his sweet and unusual son\u2019s too-short life. Now that it\u2019s too late, as penance, he takes on a Boy Scout commitment his son had made and meets 104-year-old Ona Vitkus, a contrary, reclusive woman who has seen more than her share of well-intentioned Scouts. While filling Ona\u2019s birdfeeders, Quinn learns that his son had endeared himself to Ona and had started a recording of her life for a school project. He also discovers his son was a savant, of sorts, when it came to the Guinness Book of World Records<\/em>, and Quinn takes up the 8-year-old\u2019s quest to get Ona into the record book. Sentimental without ever being sappy, this is a heartwarming, heartbreaking story of friendship and of not knowing what you\u2019ve got until it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quinn is a professional musician, perennially on the road, who feels remorse for missing so much of his sweet and unusual son\u2019s too-short life.<\/p>\n

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