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What Even Is An Oak Tree?

2020/10/28
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Hey YA

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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.

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life); Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer with Fierce Reads); and Smash It! by Francina Simone, published by Inkyard Press).

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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 Whippoorwill Award)

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

After The Fall by Kate Hart)

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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