She's the OG in Dystopian YA: Favorite Dystopian Novels (Short)

books mentioned
*Jen - Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
*Jenni - Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It
*Ashley - Marie Lu's Legend
*Sara - Ally Condie's Matched
other works mentioned
*Lois Lowry's  The Giver series
*Veronica Roth's Divergent Series
*Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series​
*Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale television series
*Marie Lu's Prodigy
*Marie Lu's Champion
*Susan Beth Pfeffer's The Dead and the Gone
 
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I Was Using Book Darts All Over the Place: Emily X. R. Pan's THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER (Book Club)

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timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-01:08
*Main Discussion: 01:08-45:17
*​Book Pairings: 46:03-51:06
*Classroom Connections: 51:07-54:39
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book pairings
*Jen - ​​​Toni Morrison's Beloved
*Sara - Laurie Halse Anderson's The Impossible Knife of Memory
*Ashley - Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
 
other mentions
*Kelly Jensen's podcast - Hey YA
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We Are All Really Frightened: Lit Chat #2 (Short)

books mentioned
*Sara - Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See
*Jen - J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
*Ashley - Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
*Jenni - R.J. Palacio's Wonder
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I Am More Playing Devil's Advocate: Siobhan Fallon's CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES (Book Club)

Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!
timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:57
*Main Discussion: 0:58-29:10
*​Book Pairings: 29:20-38:20
*Classroom Connections: 38:21-44:30
book pairings
*Sara - Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
*Jenni - Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken
*Ashley - Brit Bennett's The Mothers
*Jen - Claire Fuller's Swimming Lessons​
other works mentioned
*Alan Gratz's Refugee
*Cynthia Kadohata's Half a World Away
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If I Don't Like It, I Ditch It: Unpopular Opinion Alert (Books Everyone Else Loved, But We Didn't) (Short)

books mentioned
*Jenni - Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
*Sara - Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge
*Ashley - E. Lockhart's We Were Liars
*Jen - Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity
​other books mentioned
*Elizabeth Strout's My Name Is Lucy Barton​
*J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
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I Ran Out of Book Darts: Tomi Adeyemi's CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE (YA Book Club)

timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-1:39
*Main Discussion: 1:40-42:40
​*Book Pairings: 43:24-50:14
*Classroom Connections: 50:15-53:50
book pairings
*Jen - Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
*Ashley - Kristin Cashore's Graceling
*Sara - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope / Young Reader's Edition / Picture Book
other works mentioned
*William Kamkwamba's TED Talk
*The Atlantic review by Vann R. Newkirk II, "Where Fantasy Meets Black Lives Matter"
*Nic Stone's Dear Martin
*Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
*Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All-American Boys 
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Any Aspiring Authors Out There? There's Your Window!: Favorite Current Reads (Short)

books mentioned
*Jenni - Melissa Hill's Keep You Safe
*Sara - Beth Vrabel's Caleb and Kit
*Ashley - Patricia McCormick's Never Fall Down
*Jen - Robin Sloan's Sourdough
​other books mentioned
*Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
*Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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Can We Just Please Read the Rest of That?: Dane Hucklebridge's CASTLE OF WATER (Book Club)

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:44
*Main Discussion: 0:45-29:32
*​Book Pairings: 29:38-39:21
*Classroom Connections: 39:22-45:03
 
book pairings
*Jen - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
*Sara - Emily St. John Mendel's Station Eleven
*Ashley - Cormac McCarthy's The Road
*Jenni - Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies
 
books mentioned in classroom connections​​
*Sara - Lois Lowry's The Giver series
*Jenni - Louis Sachar's Holes
 
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Well, You Can't Skim: Favorite Audiobooks (Short)

​books mentioned
*Jen - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden, narrated by Cary Elwes
*Jenni - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, narrated by Linda Stephens
*Ashley - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale
*Sara - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, narrated by George Newburn
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I Can Suspend Disbelief Like Crazy: Julie Buxbaum's TELL ME THREE THINGS (YA Book Club)

Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!
timeline
*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:53
*Main Discussion: 0:54-21:24
*​Spoilers: 4:49
*Book Pairings: 21:29-28:34
*Classroom Connections: 28:35-31:11
book pairings
*Jen - Gayle Forman's If I Stay
*Sara - Sharon Huss Roat's How to Disappear
*Ashley - Stephanie Perkins's Anna and the French Kiss
*Jenni - Susan Nielson's We Are All Made of Molecules
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