Jenn and guest Eric Smith talk books for teen reluctant readers, classroom read-alouds, hopeful reads and more in this week’s Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Inside Out & Back Again by Thanha Lai

Nick & Tesla series from Steve Hockensmith and Bob Plugfelder

The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The Damned Utd by David Peace

To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Chime by Franny Billingsley

Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery

The Trouble with Destiny by Lauren Morrill

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy

Salvage by Alexandra Duncan

Autofocus by Lauren Gibaldi

Tracked by Jenny Martin

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