Show Notes
Erica talks queer YA graphic novels you should read and Kelly speaks with author and activist Frederick Joseph.
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Books Discussed:
The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
Daybreak Volume One by Moosopp
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1 by Mokumokuren, Ajani Oloye (Translator)
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Brooms By Jasmine Walls, Teo Duvall (Illustrator)
This Thing of Ours by Frederick Joseph
The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph
Ruin Road by Lamar Giles
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Dwyane Wade
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
24 Seconds From Now . . . by Jason Reynolds
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Nic Stone
Gayle Forman
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