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Kelly and Erica discuss the latest media they've been consuming and the YA books coming out in August that they're most excited about.
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Books Discussed:
Legendary Fry Bread Drive-In edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith
A Beautiful and Terrible Murder by Claire M. Andrews
Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai
The L.O.V.E. Club by Lio Min
White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History by Ann Bausum
The Next Generation United Daughters of the Confederacy: Book Censorship News, April 28, 2023
Tall Water by SJ Sindu, Dion MBD
Rosa By Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Nicole Goux
What Hunger by Catherine Dang
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
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