Kelly and Hannah take a look at the settings present and absent in YA books and what they wish they saw more commonly, then highlight YA set in the rural US and across the globe.
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SHOW NOTES
A Heart In a Body In The World) by Deb Caletti
Pointe) by Brandy Colbert
The Memory of Light) by Francisco X. Stork
Piecing Me Together) by Renée Watson
The House of the Scorpion) by Nancy Farmer
The Lord of Opium) by Nancy Farmer
Journey of Dreams) by Marge Pellegrino
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything) by Raquel Vazquez Gilliland
Disappeared) by Francisco X. Stork
The Worlds of Words Collection)
Like Water) by Rebecca Podos
When the Ground is Hard) by Malla Nunn
Rural Voices:15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small Town America) edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace)
Our Wayward Fate) by Gloria Chao
Never Fall Down) by Patricia McCormick and Arn Chorn Pond
You Should See Me In a Crown) by Leah Johnson
All That I Can Fix) by Crystal Chan
Daughter of Smoke and Bone) by Laini Taylor
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine) by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Learning To Breathe) by Janice Lynn Mather
You Must Be Layla) by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Scowler) by Daniel Kraus
Bent Heavens) by Daniel Kraus
Dare To Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey) by Ogze Salamaci
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