books mentioned

*Jen - Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

*Jenni - Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It

*Ashley - Marie Lu's Legend

*Sara - Ally Condie's Matched

*Lois Lowry's  The Giver series

*Veronica Roth's Divergent Series

*Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series​

*Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale television series

*Marie Lu's Prodigy

*Marie Lu's Champion

*Susan Beth Pfeffer's The Dead and the Gone

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-01:08

*Main Discussion: 01:08-45:17

*​Book Pairings: 46:03-51:06

*Classroom Connections: 51:07-54:39

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book pairings

*Jen - ​​​Toni Morrison's Beloved

*Sara - Laurie Halse Anderson's The Impossible Knife of Memory

*Ashley - Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior

other mentions

*Kelly Jensen's podcast - Hey YA

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books mentioned

*Sara - Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See

*Jen - J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

*Ashley - Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give

*Jenni - R.J. Palacio's Wonder

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:57

*Main Discussion: 0:58-29:10

*​Book Pairings: 29:20-38:20

*Classroom Connections: 38:21-44:30

*Sara - Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give

*Jenni - Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken

*Ashley - Brit Bennett's The Mothers

*Jen - Claire Fuller's Swimming Lessons​

*Alan Gratz's Refugee

*Cynthia Kadohata's Half a World Away

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books mentioned

*Jenni - Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

*Sara - Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge

*Ashley - E. Lockhart's We Were Liars

*Jen - Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity

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*Elizabeth Strout's My Name Is Lucy Barton​

*J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-1:39

*Main Discussion: 1:40-42:40

​*Book Pairings: 43:24-50:14

*Classroom Connections: 50:15-53:50

*Jen - Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

*Ashley - Kristin Cashore's Graceling

*Sara - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope / Young Reader's Edition / Picture Book

*William Kamkwamba's TED Talk

*The Atlantic review by Vann R. Newkirk II, "Where Fantasy Meets Black Lives Matter"

*Nic Stone's Dear Martin

*Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give

*Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All-American Boys 

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books mentioned

*Jenni - Melissa Hill's Keep You Safe

*Sara - Beth Vrabel's Caleb and Kit

*Ashley - Patricia McCormick's Never Fall Down

*Jen - Robin Sloan's Sourdough

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*Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

*Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:44

*Main Discussion: 0:45-29:32

*​Book Pairings: 29:38-39:21

*Classroom Connections: 39:22-45:03

book pairings

*Jen - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

*Sara - Emily St. John Mendel's Station Eleven

*Ashley - Cormac McCarthy's The Road

*Jenni - Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies

books mentioned in classroom connections​​

*Sara - Lois Lowry's The Giver series

*Jenni - Louis Sachar's Holes

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​books mentioned

*Jen - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden, narrated by Cary Elwes

*Jenni - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, narrated by Linda Stephens

*Ashley - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale

*Sara - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, narrated by George Newburn

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:53

*Main Discussion: 0:54-21:24

*​Spoilers: 4:49

*Book Pairings: 21:29-28:34

*Classroom Connections: 28:35-31:11

*Jen - Gayle Forman's If I Stay

*Sara - Sharon Huss Roat's How to Disappear

*Ashley - Stephanie Perkins's Anna and the French Kiss

*Jenni - Susan Nielson's We Are All Made of Molecules