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November Book Club - Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam's PUNCHING THE AIR
In this Book Club episode of the Unabridged podcast, Ashley, Jen, and Sara discuss Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam's Punching the Air. After our Bookish Check-in, we share our opinions about the book and some favorite quotations, and then each of us offers another book we think would pair well with this YA novel in verse. Finally, we end by sharing some new favorites we've discovered lately.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji
Jen - Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Sara - Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle's Let It Snow
Our Pairings
Ashley - Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage
Jen - Nic Stone’s Dear Justyce
Sara - Ellen Hopkins’s Burned
Mentioned in Episode
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped
Jason Reynolds's Long Way Down
Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Nic Stone's Dear Martin
“Wait for It” from Hamilton
West Wing Weekly
Song Exploder podcast and Netflix series
Partners podcast
Give Me One - A Recent Favorite
Ashley - Kim’s Convenience on Netflix
Jen - In the Dark, most recent episode with Curtis Flowers
Sara - Hamilton
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
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By Ashley Dickson-Ellison and Jen Moyers
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In this Book Club episode of the Unabridged podcast, Ashley, Jen, and Sara discuss Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam's Punching the Air. After our Bookish Check-in, we share our opinions about the book and some favorite quotations, and then each of us offers another book we think would pair well with this YA novel in verse. Finally, we end by sharing some new favorites we've discovered lately.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji
Jen - Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Sara - Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle's Let It Snow
Our Pairings
Ashley - Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage
Jen - Nic Stone’s Dear Justyce
Sara - Ellen Hopkins’s Burned
Mentioned in Episode
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped
Jason Reynolds's Long Way Down
Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Nic Stone's Dear Martin
“Wait for It” from Hamilton
West Wing Weekly
Song Exploder podcast and Netflix series
Partners podcast
Give Me One - A Recent Favorite
Ashley - Kim’s Convenience on Netflix
Jen - In the Dark, most recent episode with Curtis Flowers
Sara - Hamilton
Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page.
Want to support Unabridged?
Check out our Merch Store!
Become a patron on Patreon.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram.
Like and follow our Facebook Page.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter.
Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher.
Check us out on Podbean.
Please note that we a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
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