{"id":17440,"date":"2012-10-15T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17440"},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:02:24","slug":"octavia-spencer-writing-books-for-middle-schoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17440","title":{"rendered":"Octavia Spencer Writing Books For Middle Schoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 Oscar winner<strong> Octavia Spencer <\/strong>is looking to make some magic in the book world.<\/p>\n<p>The actress best known for<em> \u201cThe Help\u201d<\/em> has a deal with Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers for a pair of detective novels for middle school students.<\/p>\n<p>Simon &amp; Schuster announced Thursday that the first book, <em>\u201cRandi Rhodes, Ninja Detective: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit,\u201d<\/em> will come out next fall. <strong>Spencer <\/strong>said in a statement that she had been inspired by such mystery series as <em>Nancy Drew<\/em> and <em>Encyclopedia Brown<\/em> and hoped to give kids the same \u201csense of magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spencer<\/strong>, 42, has also appeared in such films as <em>\u201cFlypaper\u201d<\/em> and the upcoming <em>\u201cSmashed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 Oscar winner Octavia Spencer is looking to make some magic in the book world. The actress best known for \u201cThe Help\u201d has a deal with Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers for a pair of detective novels for middle school students. Simon &amp; Schuster announced Thursday that the first book, \u201cRandi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}