Why Read YA: Recent Episodes

Karla Wardlow, Karissa Sorrell, Madeleine Sorrell

A podcast celebrating young adult literature. We'll tell you why you should read YA.

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Karla, Karissa, and Madeleine discuss all three books in the Courage Theme: Divergent, Red Queen, and The Scorpio Races, and make connections to their own lives. 

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In this episode, Karla, Karissa, and Madeleine talk about Courage in The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater. 

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In this episode, Karla, Karissa, and Madeleine talk about different types of courage in the book Divergent by Veronica Roth. 

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Today we start our Courage Theme! Karla, Karissa, and Madeleine discuss courage in the book Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.

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In Episode, 5, Karla, Karissa, and Madeleine synthesize the friendship theme by talking about all three books, including which characters from the different books should meet and why! They also discuss how the themes and ideas from these books interact with and affect their own lives. At the end, they announce the next theme and books!

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In this episode, Karla, Karissa, and Madeleine discuss the theme of friendship in That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Karim.

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In this episode, Karla, Karissa, and Madeleine discuss friendship in Kids of Appetite by David Arnold.

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In this episode, we kick off our Friendship theme! We talk about how friendship plays out in The School For Good and Evil by Soman Chainani.

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In Episode 1, we introduce our co-hosts: Karla Wardlow, Karissa Sorrell, and Madeleine Sorrell. We also introduce the concept and format of our pocast, and we discuss a MYSTERY YA BOOK! Tune in to join the conversation.