Reader's Roundtable Episode 25: Imagine Your Story this Summer
June Reader’s Roundtable Podcast
A pair of fun discussions! To start Mari is joined by CADL Holt-Delhi Librarian Robert Chartrand to talk children’s and teen titles and the Summer Reading Challenge, then Cheryl and Jessica chat about where we are with our new normal and offer our own recommendations.
Mari & Robert’s Picks
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (All Hunger Games books in this link)
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim
Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Life and (medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly by Jamie Pacton
Breath Like Water by Anna Jarzab
The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind: An Aesop’s Fable retold by Heather Forest,
Outside In by Deborah Hopkinson
One the Horizon by Lois Lowry
Cheryl’s Titles and Links:
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina
Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants by Jennifer Jewell
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith
Shelter in Poems: A Virtual Reading - Live Facebook Event
Jessica’s Titles & Links
Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
The Lost Family by Libby Copeland
Read with Pride Panel—featuring Meryl Wilsner, Casey McQuiston, Gabby Rivera, and Kacen Callender
Tor/Forge just announced their upcoming TOR CON virtual conference
The Slowdown (Podcast by Tracy K. Smith)
And I was gushing about Celtgrass group We Banjo 3 but I’m not sure I said their name