This week our panel of students, Dhruv, Nicolas, and Ella, argue about what's hot, and what's not, in the world of middle school literature. Which books are no longer popular that once were? Which books are super popular now, but we think they'll be out...

Ever read a book that just annoyed you for some reason, but you couldn't quite put your finger on it? Well it might have been the way that author's often write their characters, and especially their secondary characters, as stereotypes -- not fully...

In this, our second to last episode of the season, tune in to get some great book recommendations that you almost definitely haven't heard of from our student panel of Tove, Abi, and Sean, and of course Mrs. Collins, your friendly school librarian. 

In this episode our student panel of Asha, Abi, Angelina, and Sean chat with Mrs. Collins about reading in quarantine in general, what we are reading, and more!

On today's episode our student panel of Abi, Angelina, Sean, Tove, and Elise are joined by Stacey Lee, author of such fabulous young adult fiction titles as Under a Painted Sky, Outrun the Moon, The Downstairs Girl, and The Secret of a Heart Note to...

This week our student panel of Abi, Angelina, and Tove dive into movie adaptations. Fair warning, as book nerds, we all pretty much think the book was ALWAYS better, but we do have a few good things to say about some movie adaptations...

This week Angelina, Elise, Abi, and Mrs. Collins geek out on one of our favorite genre argument -- which is better: realistic fiction or fantasy? It's officially spring break for us this week, so extra thanks to the students who showed up to argue today!

This week we will be pitting old against new and arguing about which is better, the new generation of realistic fiction graphic novels (think Raina Telgemeier, Svetlana Chmakova, Vera Brosgol), or more traditional superhero/superpower comics a la DC,...

Gennifer Choldenko, author of the hit historical fiction series for middle grade readers Al Capone does my Shirts, as well as the very timely historical fiction book Chasing Secrets, which tells the story of the outbreak of Bubonic Plague in San...

In this episode, Ruth, Simone, Sean, Asha and Mrs. Collins get into it about Harry Potter. Fair warning, this isn't much of an argument -- we have a LOT of HP fans in the club and it was hard to find anyone who wasn't an immediate yes, but it was a fun discussion nonetheless!

In this very brief first podcast, the A-Team, Angelina, Allisyn, Asha, and Abbie, argue about whether or not Marie Lu, popular author of the best-selling young adult series Legend, The Young Elites, and Warcross, is a God among authors, or just really...