These Books Made Me
av Prince George's County Memorial Library System
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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These Books Made Me is a podcast about the literary heroines who shaped us and is a product of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System podcast network. Stay in touch with us via Twitter @PGCMLS with #TheseBooksMadeMe or by email at [email protected]. For recommended readalikes and deep dives into topics related to each episode, visit our blog at pgcmls.medium.com.
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- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter · 1 h 16 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 7Send us Fan Mail We are capping off Hispanic Heritage Month with a modern YA classic. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez has us feeling so many feelings…
- Hispanic Heritage Month: Gabi, a Girl in Pieces rerelease · 1 h 0 min · Säsong 6Send us Fan Mail To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, we're rereleasing an episode on one of our favorites, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, by Isabel Quintero. Keep an eye on your…
- Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass · 1 h 15 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 6Send us Fan Mail What would you do if a girl 1. you've never met, 2. have never seen and 3. whose name you've never even heard before, allegedly wants to kick your ass? Well…
- Baby-Sitters Club: Stacey Part 2 · 52 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 5Send us Fan Mail We're back with Part 2 of a Super Special Baby-Sitters Club episode! We were thrilled to be joined by special guest, author Lakita Wilson (Be Real, Mercy Weaver…
- Baby-Sitters Club: Stacey Part 1 · 55 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 4Send us Fan Mail It's a Super Special Baby-Sitters Club episode! We were thrilled to be joined by special guest, author Lakita Wilson (Be Real, Mercy Weaver, Sparkle, Pretty Girl…
- The Wee Free Men · 1 h 14 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 3Send us Fan Mail Crivens! We're tackling the first installment of the Tiffany Aching series, The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. Tiffany is a pragmatic and precocious 9-year-old…
- Rerelease: Persepolis · 1 h 5 min · Säsong 6Send us Fan Mail Today we are rereleasing our episode on Persepolis to commemorate the life of Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Iranian-French writer, artist, filmmaker, and human…
- Brown Girl, Brownstones · 1 h 3 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 2Send us Fan Mail For a debut novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall sure is a tour de force. Our protagonist, Selina Boyce is caught between her hopeless dreamer…
- Bonus Episode: Passing Through the Netherworld · 59 min · Säsong 6Send us Fan Mail We try to do a game or quiz that relates to the book in every episode, but for The Egypt Game, the game was pretty elaborate. Hawa, Heather, Hannah, and Darlene…
- The Egypt Game · 1 h 1 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 1Send us Fan Mail Were you obsessed with antiquity, myths, and homemade costumes when you were a child? If so, have we got the book for you! This episode we revisit an oldie but a…
- Tuck Everlasting · 1 h 10 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 11Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we take a sip from the spring of eternal life—or at least from Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting—and things get delightfully complicated. We…
- Twilight Part 2 · 1 h 1 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 11Send us Fan Mail We're back with a continuation of our discussion around Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. In this episode, we explore the toxicity of Bella and Edward's relationship…
- Twilight Part 1 · 1 h 12 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 10Send us Fan Mail This episode feels like what we've worked toward for the past few seasons. How can we have a library podcast and not do the pop culture juggernaut that was…
- The Poet X · 1 h 15 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 9Send us Fan Mail The Poet X was Elizabeth Acevedo's breakout novel, winning the Printz and Pura Belpre awards and becoming the target of many challenges and even a lawsuit…
- Speak · 1 h 10 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 8Send us Fan Mail Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson follows Melinda Sordino as she navigates the aftermath of her sexual assault at a high school party. Unable to speak about what…
- Baby-sitters Club: Mary Anne Part 2 · 48 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 7Send us Fan Mail We are back with special-expert-guest-on-all-things-BSC Kelsey for Part 2. We're still talking about how arson isn't the answer; because really, arson isn't the…
- Baby-Sitters Club: Mary Anne Part 1 · 1 h 3 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 6Send us Fan Mail We are back with more Baby-Sitters Club books, y'all and one of these is all about banned books (and arson) so you know we couldn't keep it to just one episode…
- The Summer I Turned Pretty · 1 h 28 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 5Send us Fan Mail 2 brothers, 1 girl, 0 chance we're onboard with this love triangle. In The Summer I Turned Pretty, we follow Isabel "Belly" Conklin, who hasn't had much luck…
- Sweet Valley High: Double Love and Teacher Crush · 1 h 15 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 3Send us Fan Mail Wow. Truly, we are so glad we took a detour to the affluent and completely bananas town of Sweet Valley, California to meet Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield…
- The Birchbark House · 1 h 11 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 3Send us Fan Mail In a TBMM first, we read a book with substantially different editions! That's right, we all came to the podcasting table calling the main character by different…
