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Books In the Middle Podcast
Tasha Squires
335 episodes
5 days ago
Send us a text Blood Gone Cold by Katy Grant As siblings who used to get alone, Abby can't figure out why she and Natalie seem to be on opposite ends of everything these days. So much so, that even their parents are tired of all the fighting. So when neither girl can agree on what they want to do for dinner, their parents decide to leave them at the rented cabin in the snowy woods and go to town by themselves. At first that is just fine with Abby -who decides to prank her sister by hiding her...
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Send us a text Blood Gone Cold by Katy Grant As siblings who used to get alone, Abby can't figure out why she and Natalie seem to be on opposite ends of everything these days. So much so, that even their parents are tired of all the fighting. So when neither girl can agree on what they want to do for dinner, their parents decide to leave them at the rented cabin in the snowy woods and go to town by themselves. At first that is just fine with Abby -who decides to prank her sister by hiding her...
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Books In the Middle Podcast
Blood Gone Cold by Katy Grant (Novel in Verse and Contemporary)
Send us a text Blood Gone Cold by Katy Grant As siblings who used to get alone, Abby can't figure out why she and Natalie seem to be on opposite ends of everything these days. So much so, that even their parents are tired of all the fighting. So when neither girl can agree on what they want to do for dinner, their parents decide to leave them at the rented cabin in the snowy woods and go to town by themselves. At first that is just fine with Abby -who decides to prank her sister by hiding her...
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5 days ago
3 minutes

Books In the Middle Podcast
All is Fair by Dee Garretson (Historical Fiction and Romance)
Send us a text All is Fair by Dee Garretson Clara is shocked and terrified when she is called down to the headmistress of her boarding school's office and is given a telegram. After all, the year is 1918, she lives in England and her brother, Crispin has been missing in action for several months. Believing the worst, she opens the telegram, only to find a strange missive from her father, urging her to return home. Is this finally her chance to do something important for the war effort? ...
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1 week ago
2 minutes

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I Will Follow by Eireann Corrigan (Horror and Contemporary)
Send us a text I Will Follow by Eireann Corrigan Shea Davison is an influencer and known on social media platforms for her dancing and honest look at her mother's depression after her divorce. Now things are feeling a bit complicated though. Turns out her best friend, Delancey's dad, and her mom found each other on a dating site and are now getting married! Which should be great, but for some reason, Delancey isn't seeming to be happy about it. What Shea doesn't know though, is that while she...
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2 weeks ago
4 minutes

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The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri (Adventure)
Send us a text The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri When the boy was running for his life from the Monks he had been living with, because they were trying to stone him to death, it was Samir who stopped them and it was how the boy because known as the Monkey and began to serve Samir on the silk road with other merchants traveling. However, once Monkey learns just how much of a trickster Samir is, he has other ideas about how to get away from him. But when it...
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3 weeks ago
3 minutes

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Red in Tooth and Claw by Lish McBride ( Fantasy and Horror)
Send us a text Red in Tooth and Claw by Lish McBride Faolan is alone after her grandfather dies. And out on the frontier is no place for a teen girl, alone. Which is why her grandfather encouraged her to dress as a boy ever since she lost her parents. But even if she is pretending to be a boy, the town of New Retienne's mayor has his sights set on the land that was her grandfather's. The mayor says that Faolan can't live out there by themselves, so arranges for Faolan to be sent off to a plac...
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1 month ago
4 minutes

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The Girl in the Lake By India Hill Brown (Mystery)
Send us a text The Girl in the Lake by India Hill Brown Celeste and her younger brother are being dropped off at their grandparents place lake house for a long summer week with their two cousins. But Celeste is worried. She doesn't know how to swim, and here she is ... at a lake house. But it turns out that shouldn't be her biggest worry. Because there is definitely a ghost haunting the house! Recommended for grades 6 and up. Support the show
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1 month ago
4 minutes

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The Red Palace by June Hur (Mystery and Historical Fiction)
Send us a text The Red Palace by June Hur The year is 1758, and the place is Korea. Hyeon has accomplished her dream of becoming a palace nurse. After many years of studying, she hopes to make her father proud. A father who barely even acknowledges her existence since she is his illegitimate daughter. However, when four women are murdered, one of them a palace nurse and the others students and a teacher where Hyeon studied to become a nurse, she is devastated. Even more so, when the woman who...
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1 month ago
4 minutes

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Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango (Novel in Verse Contemporary)
Send us a text Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango Laura is confused. She thought she was doing the right thing - but it turns out that where she has ended up is not at all where she thought she would be. Living with her aunt that she doesn't even know, is not her idea of a solution. When will she be able to go back with her parents? She doesn't want to settle in, because this new place is not home. Recommended for grades 6 and up. Support the show
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2 months ago
3 minutes

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Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell (Fantasy and Romance)
Send us a text Flowerheart by Cathering Bakewell Clara is devastated to learn that she will not be joining the Council because her magically powers are to volatile. She hasn't been able to control them since she got them, and she doesn't know why. To add insult to injury, her old best friend Xavier is there with the Council - as part of the Council - when she receives the bad news. Who is she if she doesn't have her magic? Recommended for grades 7 and up. Support the show
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2 months ago
2 minutes

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The Steps by Wendelin Van Draanen (Suspense Mystery)
Send us a text The Steps by Wendelin Van Draanen Ruby misses her best friend, Sterling. They haven't been able to communicate in anyway for a long time. And why? It isn't because they drifted apart, or had a fight, no, it is because of their Dads. Their dads are in the middle of an epic family feud and Ruby and Sterling, who are cousins, are just casualties of the fight. But one night, Sterling breaks the rules and gets in touch with Ruby. At first, Ruby thinks this might mean a change in wha...
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2 months ago
4 minutes

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Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim (Contemporary)
Send us a text Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim Wen and her best friend, Henry, have a plan. A plan to help get them out of their everyday lives. Because being immigrants to the country of Australia - not the easiest thing in the world. Especially when you have a father who is resentful of the fact that things didn't work out as he thought they would, as is the case with Wen, whose family has been in the country for around 10 years and in Henry's case, parents who both seem to struggle, par...
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2 months ago
3 minutes

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I.R.L. by Jenny Goebel (Horror)
Send us a text I.R.L. by Jenny Goebel Lucy is excited because, finally, after months of online schooling, she will get to meet her classmates in person. After after being stuck in a cabin with just her parents for all of winter, in Alaska, no less, she is going a bit stir crazy. They had been doing online schooling because the weather was so unpredictable that it was easier to just keep in online. Yet, when that first day of in person learning is supposed to happen, the address that her class...
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3 months ago
3 minutes

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A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, The Original Fight Over Science In Schools by Debbie Levy (Nonfiction)
Send us a text A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, The Original Fight Over Science In Schools by Debbie Levy When John T. Scopes was interrupted during a game of tennis after finishing his first year of teaching in Tennessee, and asked to go down and talk to some of the local townspeople at the drugstore, he didn't think much of it. But when he arrived he found some guys planning something big, something to put the sleepy little town of Dayton, TN on the map, forever. And it would be an issue...
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3 months ago
4 minutes

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Silent Sister by Megan Davidhizar (Mystery/ Suspense)
Send us a text Silent Sister by Megan Davidhizar When Grace wakes up in the hospital, she has no recollection of the past week. Everything feels different, and she is confused. Her sister, Maddy is missing and she appears to have been the last person to see her. So why can't she remember what happened? And more importantly, where is her sister? She must hold the key to that night, if only she could remember. Recommended for grades 7 and up. Support the show
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4 months ago
3 minutes

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Songs for the Offseason by Ryan Wolf (Novel in Verse, Contemporary and Sports)
Send us a text Songs for the Offseason by Ryan Wolf Dustin is super excited to be heading off to Japan for a fun filled summer. His whole baseball team is going and he's had to work hard to earn the money for the trip. But when his mom comes into his room, just days before the trip is supposed to happen, and gives him some shocking news, he knows he can't go on the trip. But what he doesn't expect is the summer ahead of him. Recommended for grades 7 and up. Support the show
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4 months ago
3 minutes

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The Flicker by H. E. Edgmon (Adventure and Science Fiction
Send us a text The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon With Millie's mom dead, and now Rose's father, all they have left is each other and their little brother Sammy. But how can two girls and a baby make in this new world after the flicker - a massive solar flare that left most of the world charred and barren? Millie is determined to head off and find her grandmother, but Rose thinks they should find a place her dad used to hear about on the radio, called the Sanctuary. What happens when they can't agree...
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5 months ago
4 minutes

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Secret Life of Lincoln Jones by Wendelin Van Draanen (Contemporary Fiction)
Send us a text The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones by Wendelin Van Draanen Could life be any worse? Lincoln doesn’t think so. I mean, how many kids have to go to their parents work after school? And how much worse that his mom works in a crazy home, or AKA – old folks home – or AKA a nursing home for dementia patients? Plus, Lincoln is having to deal with moving to a new school and a new apartment and having to deal with the school bus, which all pose their own problems. Even though Lincoln has ...
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5 months ago
3 minutes

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Better than Revenge by Kasie West (Contemporary and Romance)
Send us a text Better than Revenge by Kasie West Finley has been wanting to be a podcaster for her school since 7th grade. She is anxious and excited that the moment she has been waiting for has finally arrived. What she doesn't count on, is her boyfriend, Jensen, deciding he wants to try out for a spot too. And then, he gets it! While her world seems to be crashing down, he seems completely unfazed by it. So what is left, but revenge? The question is, what will hit him as hard as losing the ...
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6 months ago
4 minutes

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Spirit Sleuths by Gail Jarrow (Nonfiction)
Send us a text Spirit Sleuths by Gail Jarrow During the middle of the 1800s in America, there came to be a belief that certain people had the ability to speak to the dead. They were called mediums and a whole religion sprang up around this idea. However, it turned out that everyone who claimed they could talk to the dead, when actually tested, could not. In fact, magicians could see right through all the tricks these mediums played. One famous magician, named Harry Houdini, made it part of hi...
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6 months ago
4 minutes

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Runaway By Wendelin Van Draanen (Contemporary Fiction)
Send us a text Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen Holly is a runaway - from her latest foster placement. The guy gave her the creeps and they locked her in the laundry room at night, giving her very little food, so what was the point in staying? She's been homeless before with her mom, but she's never been on her own homeless. Still, she knows what it takes and she thinks she can handle it. But thinking about something and living it are two different things entirely, and as the days turn into we...
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7 months ago
5 minutes

Books In the Middle Podcast
Send us a text Blood Gone Cold by Katy Grant As siblings who used to get alone, Abby can't figure out why she and Natalie seem to be on opposite ends of everything these days. So much so, that even their parents are tired of all the fighting. So when neither girl can agree on what they want to do for dinner, their parents decide to leave them at the rented cabin in the snowy woods and go to town by themselves. At first that is just fine with Abby -who decides to prank her sister by hiding her...