Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved have we discussed.

Discussion of the book begins at 14:30.

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Special thanks to Jake Ward for creating our theme music! Check him out at https://jaekwrad.bandcamp.com/album/draw-jaek-2.

We did it! We finally released another episode! Sorry it took us two months to read The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin.

Discussion of the book begins at 18:30 (thanks to a listener for suggesting that we say when the discussion begins, in case people want to skip our "what we read recently" part!)

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Michael and Rebecca discuss Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, which has a heavy historical context. Rebecca talks about a few different sources that shed light on some indigenous perspectives, and here they are:

• "An Island of Well-Intentioned Ignorance?"
• "What Archaeologists and Historians Are Finding About the Heroine of a Beloved Young Adult Novel"
• "A critical look at O'Dell's ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS"

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We're back with Eleanor Estes's Ginger Pye, the 1952 medal winner. Sorry for the lengthy hiatus! We're just bad at podcasting on a regular schedule, especially when it comes to talking about books about dogs.

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Just chillin with a stick with a nut for a head. That's what Rebecca and Michael are doing.

Rebecca and Michael talk about The Cat Who Went to Heaven about as long as they talked about the other books they're reading right now, if that gives you any indication of how interesting this book is.

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If Rebecca and Michael could talk to the animals, they'd probably try to get them to listen to the Newbery Chronicles. If the animals listened to this episode, they'd hear us discuss the Hugh Lofting's 1923 Newbery Medal winner, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.

In the spirit of the new year, our steadfast pair runs through some notable books they read in 2023!

Michael and Rebecca fight in their discussion about the (for now) most recent Newbery Medal winner, Amina Luqman-Dawson's Freewater. Who won? Was blood drawn? You'll have to listen to find out.

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We hope you find our discussion about Kate DiCamillo's 2014 "illuminated adventure"... uh, illuminating.

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