{"id":19222,"date":"2022-07-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=19222"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:38:25","slug":"blog-tour-the-impossible-destiny-of-cutie-grackle-by-shawn-k-stout-excerpt-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-the-impossible-destiny-of-cutie-grackle-by-shawn-k-stout-excerpt-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout (Excerpt + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockstarbooktours.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/the-impossible-destiny-of-cutie-grackle-tour-banner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Tuesday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE IMPOSSIBLE DESTINY OF CUTIE GRACKLE by Shawn K. Stout! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you! This book is truly amazing and I&#8217;m so excited to for you to find out more about it, PLUS enter for a chance to win a print copy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/the-impossible-destiny-of-cutie-grackle-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/shawn-k-stout\/\">Shawn K. Stout<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  May 10, 2022 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/peachtree\/\">Peachtree<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/middle-grade\/\">Middle Grade<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 336 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/58710476-the-impossible-destiny-of-cutie-grackle\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/shawnkstout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shawnkstout\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2991738.Shawn_K_Stout\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NJWXYQ\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shawnkstout\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b>Do you believe in impossible things? Cutie Grackle does. She has to. Otherwise, she\u2019ll never be more than a lonely 10 year old in a cursed family.<\/b><br \/>\nCutie Grackle is used to being different\u2014she lives alone on a mountain with her feeble-minded uncle, and when she\u2019s not sucking pebbles to trick her stomach into feeling full, she\u2019s chatting with a weathered garden gnome for company. But having a flock of ravens follow you is more than just different. Cutie worries the birds are connected to the curse Uncle Horace tends to mutter about. And she\u2019s right.<br \/>\nThe ravens present her with a fortune from a cookie, and when she touches it she\u2019s pulled into a vision from her family\u2019s past. It involves the curse and her long-lost mother. The birds offer up a series of objects, each imbued with memories that eventually reveal Cutie must do what her mother could not: break the curse.<br \/>\nPart outdoor survival adventure, part fantastical quest, Shawn K. Stout\u2019s <i>The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle<\/i> is a journey of hope, heart, and a willingness to believe in the impossible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2022-07-05T10:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Tuesday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE IMPOSSIBLE DESTINY OF CUTIE GRACKLE by Shawn K. Stout! I'm so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you!\",\n\t\"publisher\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Kait Plus Books\"\t},\n\t\"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\\\/books\\\/blog-tour-the-impossible-destiny-of-cutie-grackle-by-shawn-k-stout-excerpt-giveaway\\\/\",\n\t\"itemReviewed\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Book\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle\",\n\t\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\t\"name\": \"Shawn K. 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My life was full of the kinds of things people might call irregular, but up until then, not one of them had to do with birds. I knew it could only mean one thing: Either I stunk of worms, or something bad was fixin\u2019 to happen.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my heart of hearts, I was really hoping for worms. I was sitting in the front seat of Toot Jefferson\u2019s old pickup truck, watching the trees fly by the window, when I spotted the birds for the third time that morning. They were ravens. Five of them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of these days, I\u2019m going to take me a tropical vacation,\u201d said Toot. \u201cWhen I get lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen will that be?\u201d I asked, sniffing my bare arm and trying to remember the last time I washed. \u201cOh, I don\u2019t know the particulars,\u201d she said, \u201cbut one of these days my ship will come in. Believe you me.\u201d I stuck my head out of the window to get a better look at the birds. The warm June wind tickled my face. They were doing a pretty fine job of keeping up with us, those birds. Although, considering how tenderfooted Toot was with the gas pedal, it couldn\u2019t have been awful hard. \u201cBut there aren\u2019t any ports in West Virginia,\u201d I said, leaning back inside the truck. That was the problem with living in a landlocked state; there was no easy way out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA minor technicality.\u201d Toot was gripping the top of the steering wheel with both hands. Each of her plump fingers was outfitted with a ring, which she clacked against the wheel. Clack. Clack. \u201cI read about a woman who woke up one morning with the firmly held belief that she would win the lottery even though she had never gambled before in all her life. So she bought herself a ticket. And the next thing she knew, she was a super-mega jackpot winner and on the front page of all the papers. Now she owns a&nbsp;chain of islands. Not just one island, a whole chain. Can you believe such a thing?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I nodded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believed in most impossible things.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toot steered her old truck over the dips in the gravel road down the mountain. Her dyed curls, the color of a chili pepper, swept her chin. The road to the nearest town, Gypsum, was steep, and Toot badgered the brake the whole way.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toot Jefferson worked in the cafeteria at Vera B. Marigold Elementary, where I had just finished fifth grade. Toot saw it as her own personal concern to look in on me, especially during the summer, and once a month, she drove me down to Gypsum\u2019s No Hunger Food Pantry, where I could get food for myself and my uncle, Horace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo you see those birds behind us?\u201d I said, looking out the window again.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBirds?\u201d Toot adjusted her rearview mirror. \u201cI think they\u2019re following me,\u201d I said. \u201cI saw them back at Horace\u2019s place, and now here they are again.\u201d \u201cFollowing you?\u201d said Toot. She clobbered the brakes, sending me into the dashboard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMurderation!\u201d I said, shifting back into my seat and holding onto the door handle.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Toot gave me a worried look. \u201cHoney, birds don\u2019t follow. They look for food. They build nests. They lay eggs. Such is the uncomplicated life of a bird. We should all be so lucky.\u201d She frowned and kept her eyes on me until I looked away.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I\u2019m getting like Horace, I thought as I watched the trees out my window. Strange. Or, sick. \u201cNow then,\u201d Toot said, easing off the brake for a bit and then smashing it again. \u201cHow\u2019s it been?\u201d I tugged at a loose thread on the cuff of my jeans. \u201cThere\u2019s something wrong with Horace.\u201d Toot raised her eyebrows at me, and I said, \u201cI mean, more wrong than usual. Lately all he does is sleep. Unless he\u2019s running around with Charlie Mullet. He was gone three days and then came back last night, muttering to himself about the curse again. And sometimes, he just stares out the window, you know? At nothing. Like he\u2019s here, but he\u2019s not really here. Like his mind is caught someplace else.\u201d Clack. Clack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uncle Horace had always been strange, since as far back as I could remember. Strange because he kept&nbsp;himself away from most people, and he never was much for talking. When he did have something to say, he didn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense. He talked in circles, and even triangles and rectangles, but never in straight lines. He believed that a curse was set on him and our family, and that\u2019s the reason we lived the way we did, him and me. The reason my parents went away. He wouldn\u2019t say anything more about the curse than that, not that I believed him much, anyhow.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, I\u2019d gotten used to Horace and his strange ways, but the last couple of weeks, ever since Charlie Mullet came back around, something was different. It was like there was a curtain pulled tight around Horace that kept him in a dark place, that kept him from being in the world that everybody else lived in, including mine.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI don\u2019t mean that old Horace,\u201d said Toot, shaking her head. \u201cI mean you, sugar. How\u2019s it been?\u201d Clack. Clack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOh. Fine.\u201d The words came out as thin as toilet paper. Still, I nodded, smiled, and hoped Toot would believe they were true. Nothing good would come from Toot worrying any more than she already did.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne day you\u2019ll see,\u201d she said, taking her foot off the brake and letting the truck catch some speed. \u201cYour life\u2019s gonna change in a heartbeat. Just that quick.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toot said that a lot. But it couldn\u2019t happen quick enough for me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked in the truck\u2019s side mirror. The ravens were still there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hit a deep pothole. I bobbed in my seat, and the coil springs underneath me sproinged.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Toot pushed up her purple glasses and rubbed at the deep lines in her forehead, smoothing them. \u201cSugar, I\u2019ve got to tell you something. I\u2019m going away for a little while.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clack. Clack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something heavy pulled at my stomach. \u201cAway?\u201d I sputtered. \u201cWhere? For how long?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Toot explained that her mama had gotten worse and how she was going to be with her on her last days. Last days, that\u2019s what she said. She was going to drive all night, the good Lord willing, across the great state of West Virginia to Charles Town, where her mother lived. She didn\u2019t know how long she would be gone. Maybe a few weeks. Maybe more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trees that lined both sides of the road leaned in closer, as if they couldn\u2019t believe it either. I wrapped the loose thread from my jeans tight around my finger. Like I was holding onto the world and trying to steer it around a bend. \u201cCan I come with you?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou know I would bring you along if I could,\u201d answered Toot. She tramped on the brakes again. \u201cI don\u2019t think Horace would like it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe could ask him,\u201d I said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toot shook her head. \u201cIt\u2019s not only that, sugar. My mama, she\u2019s so sick.\u201d Her voice grew smaller. \u201cShe\u2019s about to leave this world, and the manner in which she\u2019s gonna do that may not be something you want to see.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t want to see anybody leave this world, but the problem was, I also didn\u2019t want Toot to leave mine. The wind untucked my hair from behind my ear.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toot reached over and put it back into place. \u201cYou know if I had my druthers, the way things are for you right now, well, that\u2019s not the way things would be.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I let go of the thread. Would be. It was an idea so big I couldn\u2019t see its edges, and nothing was too impossible&nbsp;to fit inside. Like waking up one day and, just like that, finding that everything was different. Easier. We were quiet for a long time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy mama,\u201d said Toot, after a while. \u201cShe liked to tell me fairy stories when I was a little girl about your age. Sometimes the stories came from a book, but most of the time, I think she just made them up on the spot. But before she got going with a story, she always told me to keep my eye on the luminaries.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat are luminaries?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the same thing I asked her,\u201d said Toot. \u201cShe told me that luminaries are the bright ones. The ones who look into the belly of the dark forest and see a way through when nobody else can. By the end, some of them even made it to the highfalutin castle. And you, Cutie Grackle, you\u2019ve got the makings of a luminary. You\u2019ve just got to do what I\u2019m always telling you.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t lose heart,\u201d I replied.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmen to that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/About-the-Author-Summer-2022-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/About-the-Author-Summer-2022-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/About-the-Author-Summer-2022-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/About-the-Author-Summer-2022-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Shawn K. Stout<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/shawn-k-stout-350x350.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>Shawn K. Stout is the author of several books for young readers, including A Tiny Piece of Sky (Philomel\/PRH), which was a Bank Street Best Book. Shawn holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Maryland with her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shawnkstout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shawnkstout\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2991738.Shawn_K_Stout\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NJWXYQ\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shawnkstout\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-Summer-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-Summer-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-Summer-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-Summer-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Week One<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>7\/4\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookhoundsya.net\/\">BookHounds YA&nbsp;<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/4\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/bookreviewvirginialee.com\/\">#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/5\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/just_another_mother_with_books\">@just_another_mother_with_books<\/a><\/td><td>IG Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>7\/5\/2022<\/strong><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/kaitgoodwin.com\/books\"><strong>Kait Plus Books<\/strong><\/a><\/td><td><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/6\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/logcabinlibrary.blogspot.com\/\">Log Cabin Library<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/6\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yabookscentral.com\/ya-books-blog\/\">Yabookscentral<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/7\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/midnightbooklover\/\">Midnightbooklover<\/a><\/td><td>IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/7\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/GryffindorBookishNerd\">GryffindorBookishNerd&nbsp;<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/8\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/themommaspot.home.blog\/\">The Momma Spot<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/8\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/littleredreads.com\/\">Little Red Reads<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Week Two<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>7\/11\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hodophile_z\/\">hodophile_z<\/a><\/td><td>IG Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/11\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/travelersguidetobooks?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\">travelersguidetobooks&nbsp;<\/a><\/td><td>IG Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/12\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/cheriecolyer.blogspot.com\/\">Write. Read. Live.<\/a><\/td><td>Excerpt\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/12\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/enjoyingbooksagIn\">@enjoyingbooksagain<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/13\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/pluvioreads.blogspot.com\/\">pluvioreads<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/13\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/pickagoodbook.com\/\">@pickagoodbook<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/14\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amybooksy.blogspot.com\/\">Locks, Hooks and Books<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/14\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemoreexclamation.com\/\">One More Exclamation&nbsp;<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/15\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdophiles.com\/\">Nerdophiles<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/15\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/mcmahoncelia.wixsite.com\/website\">celiamcmahonreads on insta<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Summer-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Summer-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Summer-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Summer-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/e2389ba21487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enter here for a chance to win a print copy of <em>The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle<\/em><\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/e2389ba21488\/\" target=\"_blank\"> by Shawn K. Stout!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>(US Only)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Stars-Summer-2022-Divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Questions-for-You-Summer-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Questions-for-You-Summer-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Questions-for-You-Summer-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Questions-for-You-Summer-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>What do you think about <em>The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle<\/em>? Have you added it to your tbr yet? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Summer-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Summer-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Summer-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Summer-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Summer-2022-Kait-Plus-Books-Signature.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Tuesday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE IMPOSSIBLE DESTINY OF CUTIE GRACKLE by Shawn K. 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This book is truly amazing and I&#8217;m so excited to for you to find out more about it, PLUS enter for a chance to win a print copy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19225,"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":"#giveaway read an excerpt + enter to win a print copy of THE IMPOSSIBLE DESTINY OF CUTIE GRACKLE by \n@shawnkstout!\n\n@peachtreepub\n@HolidayHouseBks\n@RockstarBkTours\n\n#excerpt #bookgiveaway #mglit #theimpossibledestinyofcutiegrackle #kaitplusbooks #tbr #new","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[484,1001,27],"tags":[537,651,540,4215,462,538,4238,4237],"reading-challenges":[],"class_list":["post-19222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-tours","category-excerpt","category-giveaways","tag-blog-tour","tag-excerpt","tag-giveaway","tag-july-2022","tag-kait-plus-books","tag-rockstar-book-tours","tag-shawn-k-stout","tag-the-impossible-destiny-of-cutie-grackle","book-author-shawn-k-stout","book-publisher-peachtree","book-genre-fantasy","book-genre-middle-grade"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Impossible-Destiny-of-Cutie-Grackle-Featured-Image.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19226,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222\/revisions\/19226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19222"},{"taxonomy":"reading-challenges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-challenges?post=19222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}