Category Archives: Book Review

A Monster Calls

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, orginated by Siobhan Dowd Roll call question: Do you have an unconscious reading list litmus test for potential friendships? Topic: LGBT characters in YA literature – The Swivet (Colleen Lindsay) “On Being Used, the Lack of LGBTQ Characters in YA, and Why [...]

Space Between Trees or, River’s Edge Revisited

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Space Between Trees by Katie Williams – Author website Topic Weeding – Texas CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries We are re-recording Extraordinary Secrets of April, May and June by Robin Benway and Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes due to technical problems. Those discussion will be [...]

You Wins Big

Listeners voted and the book the CYA Podcasters will read, review and discuss in December is You by Charles Benoit. The final votes were: You with 29 votes Kneebone Boy with 8 votes Fat Vampire with 8 votes Anna and the French Kiss with 5 votes Half World with 3 votes A total of 53 [...]

The Prince of Mist or, He was *mostly* dead

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Author website Topic Gay Teen Literature “Queer lit for the gay teen” by Sarah Wildman, Salon.com, November 11, 2003 “Supporting Gay Teen Literature: An advocate speaks out for representation on library shelves” by David Levithan, School Library Journal, October 1, 2004 “Gay teen blogger/book reviewer [...]

Upcoming Podcast Books

The CYA Podcast is underway. Cathie Sue, Emily, and I, Adrienne, will review every two weeks selected new children and teen books. Our first recording is May 20 with the podcast being released soon after. Here are the books we’ve selected so far in recording schedule order: White Cat by Holly Black Incarceron by Catherine [...]