Why Read YA @whyreadya
A podcast celebrating young adult literature. We’ll tell you why you should read YA. Co-hosted by @KarlaJean77, @KKSorrell, and Madeleine. whyreadya.podbean.com Joined February 2018-
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Just re-read this AMAZING book in prep of our next series on Identity and loved it even more the 2nd time! Thank you @jeffgarvinbooks this powerful and important novel. Can't wait to unpack it with you all soon! -Karla
Missing my girls today! This is not really a WAY back Wednesday but remember when we all lived in the same town lovely ladies? 😍😭📚 Don't worry though, we will be back together again soon on air!
No episode today - Karissa and Madeleine are settling into thier new home, and Karla is trying to cope with life away from her favorite book buddies! Use this time to catch up on episodes you missed or read ahead with us for our next theme on Identity - coming soon!
Announcing Theme 3: Identity!! The books we’ll be discussing are The Sun is Also a Star by @NicolaYoon, Symptoms of Being Human by @jeffgarvinbooks, and Saint Anything by @sarahdessen! Watch our social media accounts for dates.
In today’s episode we talk about courage in The Scorpio Races by @mstiefvater!! Find us on @iTunes or @podbeancom!
We ❤️❤️ Madeleine L’Engle!!
Another School for Good and Evil book coming next year!!!
As reminder, here are all the books in our Courage series:
This Wednesday, we talk about Courage in the book Divergent by @veronicaroth!!
Have you listened yet this week? We are talking all things Red Queen and courage! Go listen....
Tune in this Wednesday for our discussion about courage in the book Red Queen by @Victoriaaveyard!
It’s come to our attention that today’s episode did not completely upload and the last 10 minutes or so were cut off! So sorry! We are working to rectify that now. Thanks for listening!
Tomorrow listen in for our friendship theme wrap up!! We’ll talk about how lessons from all three books interact with our own lives and tell which characters from the different books we think should meet! @ShebaKarim @roofbeam @SomanChainani
Congrats to our co-host Madeleine, who won the 7th grade English Award at her school!! #whyreadya #readingrocks
It's my bday & podcast day! Celebrate with me by listening to our friendship talk on That Thing We Call a Heart by @ShebaKarim!
We had so much fun celebrating our co-host @karlajean77 last weekend! Her birthday coincides with our next episode, coming this Wednesday! Friendship in This Thing We Call a Heart by @ShebaKarim!
I love Why Read YA | Episode 3: Friendship in Kids of Appetite, let's play it!podbean.com/media/share/pb…
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