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Kelly and guest Crystal Maldonado talk about the 2007 YA book My Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught and how FAT isn’t a bad word.

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SHOW NOTES

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado

My Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught

“Headless Fatties” by Dr. Charlotte Cooper

Crystal on Instagram and Twitter

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Kelly and Hannah take a deep dive into YA nonfiction and YA books in translation, two categories deserving of more love and attention.

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SHOW NOTES

SET (the game)

“The Five Types of Nonfiction” by Melissa Stewart

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott

Not Funny Ha-Ha by Leah Hayes

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown

Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 by Don Brown

The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindberg by Candice Fleming

All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of The Hip Hop Generation (Young Reader Edition) by Jeff Chang

Girlhood: Teens Around The World in Their Own Words by Masuma Ahuja

Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask Young Reader Edition by Anton Treur

The Batchelder Award

The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative

B, book, and me by Kim Sagwa, translated by Sunhee Jeong

Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins, translated by Larissa Helena

Kiffe, Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene, translated by Sarah Adams

Where We Go from Here by Lucas Rocha, also translated by Larissa Helena

I Love, I Hate, I Miss My Sister by Amelie Sarn, translated by Y. Maudet

Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie

The Immortal Boy by Francisco Montaña Ibáñez, translated by David Bowles

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

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Kelly highlights five excellent award-winning YA authors and the backlist titles of theirs you shouldn’t miss.

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SHOW NOTES

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Bad Apple by Laura Ruby

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds

Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina

Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

The Girl Who Could Silence The Wind by Meg Medina

brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Hush by Jacqueline Woodson

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

The Queen of Everything by Deb Caletti

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Kelly and Hannah answer listener requests for book recommendations.

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Short story collection. Preferably fiction and/or fun/uplifting

Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet; Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan; Take the Mic edited by Bethany C. Morrow; Snow in Love; Hope Nation edited by Rose Brock; The Radical Element edited by Jessica Spotswood.

A gift for my brother who isn’t a big reader. He’s in college, loves soccer and video games, and hasn’t enjoyed a book since reading Holes in middle school.

Don’t Read the Comments by Eric Smith; Slay by Brittany Morris; The Pros of Cons by Alison Cherry; Booked by Kwame Alexander; Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez; Warcross by Marie Lu; Feed by MT Anderson.

New, contemporary, socially conscious, diverse.

Yes No Maybe So by Aisha Saeed and Becky Albertalli; The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert; Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusuf Salaam; Running by Natalia Sylvester; We Didn’t Ask For This by Adi Alsaid; Dear Justyce by Nic Stone.

Diverse body positive books.

What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume; Melt My Heart by Bethany Rutter; My Eyes Are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann; Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero; If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann; Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen.

YA dealing with survivors of sexual abuse/pedophilia/other childhood trauma: some of my favorites that I’ve read are Sadie, Girl in Pieces, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls, Perks of Being a Wallflower and Speak.

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson; Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough; The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith; Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn; How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringyimana; Wrecked by Maria Padian; Infandous by Elana K. Arnold; In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado.

A YA book to get my friend who doesn’t really read….p.s. she really likes Disney.

Disney’s Twisted Tales; Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige; Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo; Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee.

One of my high school students likes mysteries and fantasy novels, but doesn’t like any “kissing” (i.e. lots of romance or a focus on a relationship). What suggestions could I give her?

Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit by Lilliam Rivera; Endangered by Lamar Giles; Jennifer Lynn Barnes; Karen M. McManus; Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn.

A book for my 16 year old nephew who is a very particular reader. Used to love Rick Riordan but has moved on. Beyond Riordan, the only books I’ve sent him that he has actually called begging for the sequels is Scythe. He likes Agatha Christie “because it makes him think” (to figure out what is going on). I’ve tried AS King and Going Bovine, but have not gotten a reaction and all the fantasy tried and trues. Would love an idea from you!

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore; The Future will be BS-free by Will McIntosh; The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah; Warcross and Legend by Marie Lu.

A contemporary with some magic and some romance, but the story does not center grief.

Now and When by Sara Bennett Wealer; Displacement by Kiku Hughes; Lobizona by Romina Garber.

I am looking for a fantasy novel with romance that ideally is part of an almost finished or finished series. I have already read many of the popular ones, so I guess I am looking for those that were a bit more under the radar. I have read/started the Folk of the Air Series, A Court of Thorns and Roses Series, Red Queen Series, all of Cassandra Clare, etc. and loved them all! Looking for something in that realm.

Blythewood by Carol Goodman; Lost Voices by Sarah Porter; The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd; Brooklyn Brujas by Zoraida Cordova.

Warm fuzzy story about family (chosen, biological, adopted, whatever) with winter holiday(s) (not necessarily Christmas, but Christmas ok) as a backdrop and a happy ending.

Something wintery and hopeful. (At least something that leaves the reader with some hope.) I like a variety of things. Some writers whose work I’ve enjoyed: Katie Henry, Karen McManus, Tomi Adeyemi, Jenny Han, Nina LaCour, and too many names to list. A few books I’ve read and enjoyed because of this podcast: Agnes at the End of the World, We Are the Perfect Girl, and Orpheus Girl.

10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston; The Kid Table by Andrea Seigel; The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody.

A feminist book like Rules for Being a Girl.

Girls Like Us by Randi Pink; The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann; Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina; Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan.

Books for a 13 year-old. She loves the Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare and anything written by Rick Riordan. Recently, I loaned her my copy of With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (one of my favorite YA authors ever) and she loved it. I’d really like to give her books in a genre she loves and one that will expand her reading material.

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert; New Kid/Class Act by Jerry Craft; Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden; Akata Witch/Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor.

Something that will make me laugh, but also teach me something.

The Go-Between by Veronica Chambers; Cherry by Lindsey Rosin; Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan; We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan.

I’m looking for at book for my niece (18 years old). She is not an avid reader out side required reading in school. She’s not that into fantasy and Sci fi, she likes contemporary fiction better. She might like a short story collection because 40 pages is not as daunting as 350 pages (or more if it’s a series) for a story. Books she had liked recently: They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera and Broken Things by Lauren Oliver.

Try Margarita Engle, Nikki Grimes, Stephanie Hemphill, Kwame Alexander as an alternative to short stories but still with a lot of white space, as it may be less intimidating; Toil and Trouble edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe; Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo.

I’m interested in spooky tales, thrillers, science fiction, and non-WWII fiction. No dystopias or urban fantasy, please! The most important thing to me as an aromantic asexual person is that’s there’s no significant romantic element. I don’t want the main character to have any romantic partners or to spend several pages daydreaming about their crush(es). Thanks!

Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke; Dread Nation by Justina Ireland; Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham; The Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby; The Girl From The Well by Rin Chupecho; Jackaby by William Ritter; Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour.

A book for my 19 year old sister who loves Wilder Girls and The Poet X. She is a fan of feminism, horror, and queerness in books.

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters; Mary’s Monster by Lita Judge; The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis; Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez; We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian; The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus.

A book for my daughter. She recently told me that she is gay. I want to show her how much I love her and accept her. She loves graphic novels and has read many of the most popular ones featuring same sex relationships.

Everything Noelle Stevenson! Lumberjanes, Nimona, The Fire Never Goes Out; Queer: A Graphic History by Meg John Barker and Julia Scheele; Skim by Mariko Tamaki; Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu; Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw; Moonstruck by Grace Ellis and Shae Bragl.

Something heavily folklore-based (Maggie Stiefvater or higher level of “heavily”) and LGBTQ+ please? European and Asian folklore are my favorite but I’ll be happy to dive into any other as well.

Anna-Marie McLemore; A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Elsie Chapman and Ellen Oh; Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco; A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha; Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao; Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardost.

A fantasy or science fiction novel, preferably action-packed.

Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger; The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline; Cut Off by Adrianne Finley; Orleans by Sherri L. Smith.

An awesome ghost story.

The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco; Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn; Horrid by Katrina Leno; The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring; Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour; Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby; Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas.

School for Good & Evil read-alikes for 14-year-old reluctant reader. Thanks!

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell; The Irregular at Magic High School manga series by Tsutomu Sato; The Black Mage by Daniel Howard Barnes; Supermutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki; A Blade so Black by LL McKinney; Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim; Liz Braswell’s Twisted Fairy Tales series; Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood.

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In her first solo Extra Credit episode, Hannah tries not to get too mired in despair and instead focuses on the lessons she learned from Mark Bray on antifascism.

This episode is sponsored by Kingdom of Sea and Stone by Mara Rutherford, published by Inkyard Press.

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Show Notes

Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook by Mark Bray

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

The Big Lie by Julie Mayhew

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina

Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen

The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

Kent State by Deborah Wiles

Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott, illustrated by Loveis Wise

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell, illustrated by Aurelia Durand

Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany Browne, illustrated by Theodore Taylor III

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Hannah and Kelly record a podcast during the longest week ever and talk about under the radar 2020 reads and books they plan to read before the year ends.

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 Kingdom of Sea and Stone by Mara Rutherford, published by Inkyard Press.

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SHOW NOTES

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

Turtle Under Ice by Juleah del Rosario

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

How To Build a Heart by Maria Padian

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Dark Matter of Mona Starr by Laura Lee Gulledge

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Charming As a Verb by Ben Phillippe

A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callan

Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee

Dragonhoops by Gene Luen Yang

Home is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo

All The Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani

Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep by Allan Wolf

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Thoughts and Prayers by Bryan Bliss

She’s Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard

Aftershocks by Marisa Reichardt

Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel by Gabby Rivera and Celia Moscote

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Hannah and special guest Tim Milner reminisce about high school together and talk becoming YA readers a little late in life and becoming teachers after brief forays into other careers. Tim is a bit lacking in his TBR and needs your book recommendations!

This episode is sponsored by Smash It! by Francina Simone, published by Inkyard Press

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Show Notes

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Bone Black by bell hooks

Exit, Pursued By a Bear by E.K. Johnston

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

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From great new books to favorite classic reads, from news to the latest in on-screen adaptations, the Hey YA podcast is here to elevate the exciting world of young adult lit. Join hosts Kelly Jensen and Sarah Hannah Gómez on Wednesdays for recommendations, news, and lots of discussion about all things 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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Kelly dives into the wide world of YA ghost stories.

This episode is sponsored by Skyhunter by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads.

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Show Notes

I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina

We Speak in Storms by Natalie Lund

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby

Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown

Scholastic animated horror series announcement

YA ghost books

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