Jasmine Warga's OTHER WORDS FOR HOME - A Beautiful Portrayal of Coming from Syria to America
by Ashley Dickson-Ellison (@teachingtheapocalypse) Jasmine Warga's Other Words for Home (Amazon | Bookshop.org) Friends, I absolutely...
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Unabridged Podcast
Welcome to Unabridged! Ashley and Jen (shown left to right in the photo) talk books, share recommendations, and celebrate all things bookish. On our blog (see our posts below!) we share bookish faves, pub day shout-outs, show notes, and book reviews.
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- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
Unexpected Joy - 7 YA Lit and Middle-Grade Book Recs that Deliver More than You Expect
by Ashley Dickson-Ellison (@teachingtheapocalypse) On Wednesday, we'll be sharing book recommendations for books we've read that...
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- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
Safia Elhillo's HOME IS NOT A COUNTRY - Finding a Way to Inner Peace
by Ashley Dickson-Ellison (@teachingtheapocalypse) Thank you to #partner NetGalley for the advance copy of this book, Safia Elhillo's...
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- Dec 26, 2020
- 2 min
Featured Books for January 2021
January Double Feature In January, Adib Khorram's Darius the Great Is Not Okay will be both our Book Club pick AND our Buddy Read choice....
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- Dec 15, 2020
- 5 min
Pub Day Shout-Outs! December 15, 2020 Special Edition
by Ashley Dickson-Ellison (@teachingtheapocalypse) As we move toward the holidays and the end of the year, there are not many books...
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- Nov 23, 2020
- 5 min
9 Books Considering Culture: Coming of Age as Children of Immigrants
by Ashley Dickson-Ellison (@teachingtheapocalypse) In this bookish fave, I wanted to share some of my favorite middle grade and young...
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- Nov 4, 2020
- 8 min
150 - November Book Club - Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam's PUNCHING THE AIR
In this Book Club episode of the Unabridged podcast, Ashley, Jen, and Sara discuss Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam's Punching the Air. After...
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- Nov 1, 2020
- 3 min
Featured Books for November 2020
November Double Feature In November, Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam's Punching the Air will be both our Book Club pick AND our Buddy Read...
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- Oct 28, 2020
- 12 min
149: Read-Aloud Book Recommendations for Parents and Teachers
In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we're discussing books for all levels that we believe would work really well for read aloud choices....
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- Oct 3, 2020
- 4 min
Featured Books for October 2020
October Books In October we're excited to share an amazing novel, Tommy Orange's There There, our Book Club pick, and Brandy Colbert's YA...
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- Sep 1, 2020
- 4 min
Pub Day Shout-Outs! for September 1, 2020, featuring Woodson, Cole, and Zoboi and Salaam
by Ashley Dickson-Ellison (@teachingtheapocalypse) Here are three books coming out today that I'm excited to read! Jacqueline Woodson's...
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- Aug 31, 2020
- 4 min
6 Great Novels in Verse to Read Right Now
by Ashley Dickson-Ellison (@teachingtheapocalypse) I don't know about you, but this is a VERY busy time for me! When things feel crazy, I...
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- Aug 19, 2020
- 28 min
139: Great Book Recommendations - Our Season 4 Recs for Each Other
In today's episode of the Unabridged Podcast, we each do our best to recommend a book that our friends and co-hosts will love. Be sure to...
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- Jun 13, 2020
- 32 min
Bonus: Re-release of Jason Reynolds Highlight with LONG WAY DOWN, GHOST, and WHEN I WAS THE GREATEST
In this bonus episode, we wanted to share a re-release of an episode highlighting three novels by Jason Reynolds, one of our favorite...
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- Jun 10, 2020
- 46 min
129: Re-release of Angie Thomas's THE HATE U GIVE Book Club Discussion
In light of the unjust loss of Black lives in America and of the Black Lives Matter movement, we wanted to share an episode from 2018...
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- Jan 22, 2020
- 2 min
Welcome - Introduction and Overview
Just getting started with Unabridged Podcast? Welcome! We're Ashley and Jen, and we are both passionate about books and getting them into...
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- Sep 4, 2019
- 1 min
89: Elizabeth Acevedo's WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH - On Her Side
We're thrilled to discuss Elizabeth Acevedo's sophomore novel, With the Fire on High. Protagonist Emoni is a high school student, a...
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- Apr 3, 2019
- 2 min
67: Beth Macy's DOPESICK and Jarrett Krosoczka's HEY KIDDO - Obviously, We Read Both
​In this Unabridged podcast episode, we talk about two books that look at drug addiction and its impact on families. Beth Macy's...
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- Jan 16, 2019
- 2 min
56: Unabridged Awards - I Will Qualify Them All
-Alternate Titles- Address the nervousness OR Anticipating it is exciting OR Not a lot of table space for a drum roll OR I guess that was...
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- Oct 3, 2018
- 1 min
41 - Every Time I've Read It I've Found Something New to Love: Angie Thomas's THE HATE U GIVE
People like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that...
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