Unabridged: A Book Podcast
Unabridged is a bookish podcast hosted by teachers. We release episodes twice a month, including a monthly Book Club episode and other bookish topics full of recommendations for your TBR list. Join us for bookish fun at our website unabridgedpod.com, on social media @unabridgedpod, or via email at unabridgedpod@gmail.com.
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Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
In this episode of the Unabridged Podcast, we share book recommendations that we believe promote and encourage activism in young people.
Our selections include Brandy Colbert’s The Voting Booth, Dave Cullen’s Parkland: Birth of a Movement, and Monica Clark-Robinson's Let the Children March, illustrated by Frank Morrison. We also share what we're currently reading in our Bookish Check-In, and we share some activism accounts that we love in our Give Me One segment.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Jenny Han’s We’ll Always Have Summer
Jen - Jason Reynolds’s Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff
Sara - Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (after Jen’s recommendation in our cozy reads episode!)
Our Recommendations for Encouraging Activism
Ashley - Brandy Colbert’s The Voting Booth
Jen - Dave Cullen’s Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Sara - Monica Clark-Robinson, Frank Morrison (illustrator) Let the Children March (picture book)
Mentioned in Episode
Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jason Reynolds's Long Way Down
Mariah Marsden's Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel
Dave Cullen's Columbine
Enola Holmes Netflix film
Our Cozy Reads Recommendations episode
Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl: The Manga, Volume 1
Give Me One - Activist Accounts on Instagram
Ashley - @theconsciouskid
Jen - @nicstone
Sara - @hereweeread
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Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
In this autumn episode of the Unabridged Podcast, we each share some cozy read recommendations with you. After our Bookish Check-in, we talk about what makes a cozy read for us, and then we each share one that we've loved. The books we chose include Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series, Colleen Wright's The White Christmas Inn, and Alexis Hall's Boyfriend Material. We end the episode with our Give Me One . . . Cozy Comfort.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Karina Yan Glaser’s The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Jen - Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind
Sara - Jennifer Weiner’s Big Summer
Our Cozy Reads Recs
Ashley - Alexis Hall’s Boyfriend Material
Jen - Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce series
Sara - Colleen Wright's The White Christmas Inn
Mentioned in Episode
Kate Stayman-London's One to Watch
The movie Us
Neal and Jarrod Shusterman’s Dry
Fredrik Backman’s My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
Libro.fm
Give Me One - A Cozy Comfort
Ashley - Firepit
Jen - Soft, Fluffy Blankets
Sara - Harney and Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice Tea
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Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
In this Unabridged Teaching Tidbits episode, Ashley shares two books that encourage mindfulness in children. Ashley talks about Susan Verde and Peter H Reynolds's I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness (which comes from this series) and Brendan Wenzel's A Stone Sat Still. She also shares about the Calm app and Cosmic Kids Yoga, both of which have been great with her own children.
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Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
In this Book Club episode of the Unabridged podcast, Ashley, Jen, and Sara discuss Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam's Punching the Air. After our Bookish Check-in, we share our opinions about the book and some favorite quotations, and then each of us offers another book we think would pair well with this YA novel in verse. Finally, we end by sharing some new favorites we've discovered lately.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji
Jen - Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Sara - Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle's Let It Snow
Our Pairings
Ashley - Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage
Jen - Nic Stone’s Dear Justyce
Sara - Ellen Hopkins’s Burned
Mentioned in Episode
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped
Jason Reynolds's Long Way Down
Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Nic Stone's Dear Martin
“Wait for It” from Hamilton
West Wing Weekly
Song Exploder podcast and Netflix series
Partners podcast
Give Me One - A Recent Favorite
Ashley - Kim’s Convenience on Netflix
Jen - In the Dark, most recent episode with Curtis Flowers
Sara - Hamilton
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Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we're discussing books for all levels that we believe would work really well for read-aloud choices. We were thrilled to be joined by Holly Hicks, a third-grade teacher and Unabridged Ambassador who has experience choosing and sharing read-aloud picks with her third-grade students. We also share our own experiences with read-aloud picks both at home and in the classroom.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Kate Clayborn’s Love Lettering
Jen - Marissa Meyer’s Instant Karma (from NetGalley, out 11/3)
Sara - Sarah Morgan’s One More for Christmas
Holly - Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key and Alex North's The Shadows
Our Read-Aloud Recommendations
Picture Books
Ashley - Ashley Franklin’s Not Quite Snow White, illustrated by Ebony Glenn
Holly - Adam Rubin’s Secret Pizza Party, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri
Jen - B. J. Novak’s The Book with No Pictures
Sara - Drew Daywalt’s The Day the Crayons Quit, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
Middle-Grade Books
Kate DeCamillo’s Because of Winn-Dixie
Barbara O’Connor’s Wish
Hena Khan’s Amina’s Voice
K. A. Holt’s House Arrest
YA Lit
Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
Mentioned in Episode
Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood
Jane Harper's The Dry
Emily X. R. Pan's The Astonishing Color of After
Drew Daywalt’s The Day the Crayons Came Home, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
Drew Daywalt’s The Crayons' Christmas, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
My Name Is Earl TV series
Shrek
Jason Reynolds’s Long Way Down
Give Me One - Favorite Thing about Being a Pet Owner
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Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
In this Unabridged Podcast episode, Sara shares tips for using picture books in the secondary classroom. She discusses the benefits of using picture books and her own teaching experiences. In addition, she recommends two books with which she has had success in her own classroom—David Shannon's A Bad Case of Stripes to teach theme and Jon Scieszka's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs to teach point of view.
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Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're talking all things speculative fiction with Virginia Soenksen, author of The Titan Strain, The Osiris Contingency, and The Ragnarok Resolution. We talk with her about her amazing science fiction series, and then we all recommend books that we've loved within the speculative fiction realm. We wrap up our episode with some favorite museum recommendations in honor of Virginia's role as an art historian and an associate director of a museum.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Cassandra Jackson, and Piper Kendrix Williams
Jen - Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
Sara - Dusti Bowling’s Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Virginia - Janella Angeles's Where Dreams Descend
Featured Books
Virginia Soenksen’s The Titan Strain (The Genetics Chronicles Book 1) - See Ashley's review!
Virginia Soenksen’s The Osiris Conspiracy (The Genetics Chronicles Book 2)
Virginia Soenksen’s The Ragnarok Resolution (The Genetics Chronicles Book 3)
Our Speculative Fiction Recs
Ashley - Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians
Jen - N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became (check out Jen's review!)
Sara - Nancy Farmer’s The House of the Scorpion
Virginia - V.E. Schwab’s Vicious
Mentioned in Episode
V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (check out Jen's review here!)
Tommy Orange's There There (Listen to our book club episode, or join our Facebook book club discussion for late October by requesting to join here!)
The National Museum of Natural History
Give Me One - Favorite Museum
Ashley - the Louvre
Jen - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sara - Air and Space Museum
Ginny - Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
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Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
This week, Unabridged Podcast is launching into the Halloween spirit with some spooky recommendations. After our Bookish Check-in—featuring a guest appearance by Unabridged Ambassador Talie—each of shares a perfect October pick, and then (for our Give Me One) we talk about our autumn favorites.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Nic Stone’s Shuri
Jen - V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Sara - Lamar Giles’s Not So Pure and Simple and Tommy Orange’s There There (listen to our Book Club episode, 146)
Talie - Hench (find Talie at taliesadventures.com or @talielovesbooks on Instagram.)
Our Spooky Reads Recs
Ashley - Kelly Keaton’s Darkness Becomes Her
Jen - Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic
Sara - Riley Sager’s Lock Every Door
Mentioned in Episode
Shea Ernshaw’s The Wicked Deep and Winterwood
Riley Sager’s Home Before Dark
Give Me One - Favorite Thing about Fall
Ashley - pumpkin carving
Jen - fall leaves/plants
Sara - crisp air, and getting to wear fall clothes
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
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Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
In this Unabridged Teaching Tidbits episode, Ashley talks about some tips for surviving the trials and tribulations of using technology during the era of virtual teaching. She builds off of what Jen shared in Teaching Tidbit #1 about her experience with virtual teaching so far, and Ashley talks about a few things that have helped her navigate technology during this time.
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
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Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
In this Unabridged Podcast book club discussion, we talk about Tommy Orange's There There. We all discuss this masterpiece, and then we share our pairings, including Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji, and Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians
Jen - Julie C. Dao’s Broken Wish (from NetGalley, out October 6)
Sara - Lindy West’s Sh*t, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
Main Discussion
Tommy Orange's There There
Pairings
Ashley - Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine
Jen - Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji
Sara - Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Mentioned in Episode
Episode 104 - What Makes a Holiday Movie?
Libro.fm’s ALC Program
Give Me One - A New Interest
Ashley - Indoor plants
Jen - Virtual teaching
Sara - Puppies
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
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