Welcome to Episode 7! This episode is all about kid lit, middle grade, and YA, so I invited in kid lit expert Karina Yan Glaser. Karina has had a varied career teaching and implementing literacy programs in family homeless shelters and recruiting healthcare professionals to volunteer in under resourced areas around the world. She is currently a contributing editor at Book Riot and an advocate for literacy in low-income neighborhoods in New York City. Follow her on Twitter @KarinaYanGlaser.

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Books Discussed on the Show!

I Am Scout by Charles Shields 

I Am Malala (young reader’s edition) by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

The Boys in the Boat (Young Reader’s Edition) by Daniel James Brown

Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson

Holes by Louis Sachar

Ungifted by Gordon Korman

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger

The Girl who Circumnavigated FairyLand in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente

Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld

Breakaway by Kat Spears

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck (not a kid’s book!)

Little House in Brookfield by Maria D Wilkes (more here)

Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen

The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin and Lauren Tobia

Not Norman by Kelly Bennett and Noah Z Jones

(Board books I love: The Bear Snores On, Workman’s Indestructibles)

Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen

Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena

(Board books: Andy Warhol’s Colors by Susan Goldman Rubin; A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na)

Sabriel series by Garth Nix

Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand

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