{"id":355,"date":"2016-05-17T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.86.15.65\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2019-08-03T00:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T00:57:54","slug":"beau-bett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/books\/beau-bett\/","title":{"rendered":"BEAU &#038; BETT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Beau-and-Bett-outlined-641x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-525\" width=\"232\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Beau-and-Bett-outlined-641x1024.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Beau-and-Bett-outlined-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Beau-and-Bett-outlined-768x1226.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Beau-and-Bett-outlined.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KIRKUS REVIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this subtle\nreworking of a fairy tale, a teenage boy from a poor family works off a debt to\na rich girl nicknamed the Beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High schooler\nBeau LeFrancois lives in California with his large family; his father, a Cajun\ntransplant, picked oranges until a recent fall left him with several broken\nbones. His mother works as a maid to a rich family, and Beau helps out by\nferrying their son, Khalil, home from school. But Beau\u2019s sister is getting\nmarried, and money is tight. So when Beau\u2019s mother has an uninsured fender\nbender involving teenager Bettina \u201cBett\u201d Diaz of wealthy Diaz Ranch, it\u2019s a\nproblem. Bettina\u2019s father makes a deal: Beau can repay the $1,000 deductible\nwith a month of weekend chores at the ranch. The prospect isn\u2019t made brighter\nwhen Khalil, who knows Bettina from his school, explains that everyone calls\nher \u201cBett the Beast\u2026.Take my advice and stay away from her.\u201d Beau is no\nstranger to hard work and wants to be a builder after high school, so he can handle\nthe arduous weekend tasks. But Bett keeps him off balance with her lack of\nfilter and fierce gaze. Surprisingly, she shows up to work alongside him; as\nBeau learns more about Bett, he\u2019s sure she\u2019s no beast. Though their developing\nrelationship is threatened by the consequences of a lie, dramatic events bring\nhealing truths to light. In her YA novel, Berla (<em>The Kitty Committee<\/em>,\n2018, etc.) skillfully blends a fresh retelling of \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d with\ninsights from the #MeToo movement in a way that\u2019s engaging, not didactic. When\nthe tide of public opinion shifts in Bett\u2019s favor, it\u2019s genuinely moving. Beau\nalso nicely models good comradeship when, for example, he challenges Khalil\u2019s\ncatcalling: \u201cOkay, well just keep in mind that what\u2019s fun for you I can one\nhundred percent guarantee wasn\u2019t fun for those girls.\u201d Beau has things to learn\nas well, like trusting his rich friends not to be embarrassed by his small,\ncrowded house. Humor and drama effectively bounce off each other in Beau\u2019s\nbelievable narration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An entertaining\nYA romance with multilayered characters\u2014a winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beau-Bett-Kathryn-Berla\/dp\/1948705443\/\">BUY NOW FROM AMAZON<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/beau-and-bett-kathryn-berla\/1129603789#\/\">BUY NOW FROM BARNES &amp; NOBLE<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781948705448\">BUY NOW FROM YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIRKUS REVIEW In this subtle reworking of a fairy tale, a teenage boy from a poor family works off a debt to a rich girl nicknamed the Beast. High schooler Beau LeFrancois lives in California with his large family; his father, a Cajun transplant, picked oranges until a recent fall left him with several broken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":104,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions\/723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}