In the final episode of our season on Juvenile and YA Fiction, the entire CenterForLit crew gathers to reminisce about how they got hooked on reading as children. We also discuss how to go about guiding young readers through the current environment of juvenile and YA literature.

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• American Adventure Stories for Boys

• Forever Island by Patrick D. Smith

• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

• A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

• John Paul Jones by Vincent Brown

• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

• The Cat of Bubastes by G.A. Henty

• Eragon by Christopher Paolini

• Mara: Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

• Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne

• The Box Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

• The Borrowers by Mary Norton

• The Littles by John Peterson

• The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem

• Stuart Little by E.B. White

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

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Emily joins Ian in this episode to talk about our first author who writes solely in the YA genre: John Green. They discuss what makes his work so different from others we’ve covered this season and what that means for parents and readers who want to benefit from his rich, literary voice.

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• Turtles All the Way Down

• Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction by Nick Ripatrazone

• Vlog Brothers

• Crash Courses

• “Has this artist ever seen a baby?”

• Heavyweight #37: John Green

• The Anthropocene Reviewed

• Looking for Alaska

• The Fault in our Stars

• Paper Towns 

• An Abundance of Katherines

• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 

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In this episode, Megan joins Ian to talk about the magic of Jeanne Birdsall’s Penderwicks series. They discuss what it is about this series that appeals so well to audiences of all ages and what that can teach us about good writing for young readers.

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• The Penderwicks Boxed Set

• The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

• The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

• The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

• The Penderwicks in Spring

• The Penderwicks at Last

• Harry Potter Boxed Set

• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

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