Eric and Kelly talk about teens who love gardens and the outdoors, as well as the wave of excellent YA books about music hitting shelves this year.

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Show Notes

Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

Descendant of the Crane by Joan He

The Girl You Thought I Was by Rebecca Phillips

Switchback by Danika Stone

A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry

Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popovic

Lost Stars by Lisa Selin Davis

Blight by Alexandra Duncan

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

Dan vs. Nature by Don Calame

“The Heartland Trilogy” by Chuck Wendig

Spin by Lamar Giles

On The Come Up by Angie Thomas

Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

In The Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen

Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo

Impossible Music by Sean Williams

You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn

Night Music by Jenn Marie Thorne

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