Burnt Toast
Eric and Kelly talk about this year’s winners of the Youth Media Awards and highlight great YA by Black authors coming soon.
This episode is sponsored by The Handsell, Echoes Between Us by Katie McGarry, and Scammed by Kristen Simmons.
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SHOW NOTES
Don’t Read The Comments by Eric Smith
Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega
The New Kid by Jerry Craft
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
Field Guide to the North American Teen by Ben Phillippe
Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo
All American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney
Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Kahn
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagen
SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein
The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
All The Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani
When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk
We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding
You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson
A Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell