Blanket Fort Broadcasts 6: Teen Books
Episode 15, Oct 04, 2020, 04:30 PM
PPL staff who serve adults and teens share some of their favorite teen books with adult reader appeal.
Welcome back to the penultimate installment of our Blanket Fort Broadcasts series! For listeners just now tuning in, this episode is one of Portsmouth Public Library’s book talks recorded during quarantine. You’ll hear librarians who serve adults and teens share some of their favorite YA books with adult reader appeal. They include novels in verse, historical fiction, graphic-format memoirs, and all manner of audiobooks. There’s even a quick digression into anime!
Featuring: Andrew (Youth Services Library Assistant), Katharine (Youth Services Librarian), MaryJo (Circulation Library Assistant), and Poleena (Reference and Special Collections Library Assistant).
Titles discussed in this recording:
- Refugee by Alan Gratz (Hoopla and Overdrive/Libby)
- Escape from Syria by Samya Kullab, Jackie Roche & Mike Freiheit
- Lovely War by Julie Berry (Overdrive/Libby)
- Salt to the Sea, Out of the Easy, and The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys (Overdrive/Libby)
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Anything by Kwame Alexander (many available on Overdrive/Libby)
- They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (Hoopla and Overdrive/Libby)
- Hey Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka (Hoopla and Overdrive/Libby)
- Witchy by Ariel Slamet Ries (Hoopla)
- Zodiac Starforce by Kevin Panetta and Paulina Ganucheau
- The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen (Hoopla)
- I’ll Give You the Sun and The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson (Overdrive/Libby)
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Overdrive/Libby)
- One of Us is Lying and One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus (Overdrive/Libby)
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (Overdrive/Libby)
- The Poet X and With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (Hoopla and Overdrive/Libby)