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July 28, 2021 98.5: Extra Credit: Unintentionally Dark and Murder-y
This week, Tirzah talks about her most anticipated fall 2021 YA releases, which end up being mostly unintentionally dark and murder-y.
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Books Discussed:
Fresh by Margot Wood
Emma by Jane Austen
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould
Edie in Between by Laura Sibson
Cheer Up: Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Fraiser and Val Wise
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis
Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
How Not to Fall in Love by Jacqueline Firkins
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
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25 min
July 21, 2021 Heroines Don’t Always Have to Be Strong: YA Romance Chat with Jacqueline Firkins
On this episode of Hey YA, Tirzah chats with YA author Jacqueline Firkins about YA romance, our favorite rom-com tropes, and book dresses!
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Books Discussed:
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins
How Not to Fall in Love by Jacqueline Firkins
Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
Glimpsed by G.F. Miller
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
Love is a Revolution by Renée Watson
She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi
Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park
More great YA romances coming out January-June of 2021, and July-December 2021
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48 min
July 14, 2021 97.5: Extra Credit: Do These Early YA Reads Hold Up?
This week, Tirzah re-reads two early YA books and talks about whether or not she would still recommend them today!
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Books Discussed:
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
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21 min
July 07, 2021 Our Favorite Books of 2021, So Far
This week, Tirzah and Vanessa share their favorite YA releases of 2021 so far, and two upcoming YA releases they’re excited about.
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Books Discussed:
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi
The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis
She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Once Upon a Quinceañera by Monica Gomez-Hira
Dangerous Play by Emma Kress
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
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54 min
June 30, 2021 96.5: Extra Credit: We're Seeing Humans At Their Most Powerful
This week, Tirzah and special guest Emma Kress, author of Dangerous Play, discuss girls in sports in YA!
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Books Discussed:
Dangerous Play by Emma Kress
In the Same Boat by Holly Green
She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
The Knockout by Sajni Patel
Throw Like a Girl by Sarah Henning
Michigan vs. the Boys by Carrie S. Allen
Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
Break the Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez
A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong
Bruised by Tanya Boteju
Note: After recording, we discovered Cheer Up: Love and Pom-Poms by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise, a YA graphic novel about a trans teen girl who is the captain of the cheer squad. We highly recommend it, and we’d love to see more trans teen girls in sports in YA.
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40 min
June 23, 2021 Malinda Lo and Jason Reynolds Share What Books Shaped Them
This week, Hannah and Tirzah had a scheduling snafu, so we’re diving into the Book Riot podcast vaults to share an episode in which YA authors Malinda Lo and Jason Reynolds share books that shaped them.
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Books Discussed
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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23 min
June 17, 2021 95.5: Extra Credit: You Don't Understand--"Boulder Gay" is Something I Made Up
Em(ily) Dickson, cofounder of Pronouns May Vary, joins Hannah to talk about gender, shapeshifting, and graphic novels! Please note that this episode contains many colloquial phrases, words, and jokes that are very context-contingent and in-group-based for the queer community.
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Show Notes Books
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag
You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
The Bailey School Kids series by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones
Animorphs series
Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol
Taproot by Keezy Young
Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky
Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker
Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle
TV, Movies, and More
Aquamarine
Siren
Once Were Warriors
H2O: Just Add Water
The Thirteenth Year
Sabrina Down Under
Pronouns May Vary
All fantasy creatures are genderdiverse–what are you?
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Find Hannah on Twitter and Instagram @shgmclicious
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36 min
June 09, 2021 Small Towns in the Pacific Northwest and Texas Are Not Similar, and Also, Idris Elba
Hannah and Tirzah gush about some of the many wonderful film and TV adaptations of YA books that have been released in recent months.
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Show notes
Panic by Lauren Oliver (Amazon Prime)
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu (Netflix [also, the Linda Lindas!])
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things by Lev Grossman [from Summer Days and Summer Nights edited by Stephanie Perkins] (Amazon)
Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks & Ted Caplan (HBO Max)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (Netflix)
Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri (Concrete Cowboy on Netflix)
Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone on Netflix)
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan (Netflix)
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han (Netflix)
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos (your streamer of choice)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking on your streamer of choice)
There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee
News and tidbits
YA adaptation previews
Rioters’ takes on Shadow and Bone (Article 1, Article 2)
Ibi Zoboi’s Okoye news!
‘Panic’ season 2 predictions/news/lack of news/potential spoilers
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54 min
June 02, 2021 94.5: Extra Credit: Community is Everything
Tirzah talks about the fifth anniversary edition of an important queer YA book!
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Books Discussed:
You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour
Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
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21 min
May 26, 2021 We Murdered No One, and There Were No Bacchanals
Tirzah and Hannah welcome special guest Sheba Karim, whose latest book is about a topic near and dear to Hannah and Tirzah’s hearts–stories about college and other post-high school experiences.
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Show Notes
Books for Hope
The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
Like Water by Rebecca Podos
The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
Movie news about The Gilded Years
Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim
That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Karim
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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