What Even Is An Oak Tree?

Kelly and Hannah take a look at the settings present and absent in YA books and what they wish they saw more commonly, then highlight YA set in the rural US and across the globe. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer with Fierce Reads; and Smash It! by Francina Simone, published by Inkyard Press. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES A Heart In a Body In The World by Deb Caletti Pointe by Brandy Colbert The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer Journey of Dreams by Marge Pellegrino Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vazquez Gilliland Disappeared by Francisco X. Stork The Whippoorwill Award The Worlds of Words Collection Like Water by Rebecca Podos When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn Rural Voices:15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small Town America edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick and Arn Chorn Pond You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor After The Fall by Kate Hart Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite Learning To Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather You Must Be Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied Scowler by Daniel Kraus Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus Dare To Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Ogze Salamaci See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices