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Join best friends Kaycee and Ashley as they dive into the wonderful world of young adult fiction books from the 1990s, 2000s, and beyond. Revisit influential books and listen as they share relatable (and cringy) experiences from their own teen years. With insightful analysis, they discuss both the beloved and not-so-great aspects of these works while exploring the evolution of YA. Whether you're a bookworm or want to revisit the entertainment of your teen years, this is your perfect podcast BFF. Get ready to uncover the timeless magic of young adult fiction, one nostalgic page at a time.
Retrospect Publishing hosts To All the YA I've Loved Before, a arts show with 83 episodes published.
Hi! Kaycee and Ashley here with a new podcast all about the Movies, TV, books, music, and pop culture that influenced our childhood in the 90s and 2000s — and the stuff that came out before our time that still had a hold
In this mini-episode, Kaycee sits down with author Micky O’Brady to discuss Playing With #Fire, and her latest release, CRISPR—CRIS PARR, a gripping YA Sci-Fi Thriller. Micky shares her unique journey from pediatrician t
In this episode, we sit down for an interview with Maureen Johnson, the mastermind behind the best-selling Truly Devious series. We explore her latest YA mystery, Death at Morning House, set in the picturesque Thousand I
We adore retellings of classic stories, and Darling by K. Ancrum, published in 2021, instantly captivated our hearts. This dark, modern reimagining of Peter Pan unfolds in the vibrant cityscape of Chicago, seen through t
The year was 2010, and emo boys were wreaking havoc on the girls in Josie Bloss’s Albatross (and perhaps in our own lives too). Tess is new in town and finds herself irresistibly drawn to Micah Richter, the brooding, “br
Welcome to a special mini-episode of To All the YA I've Loved Before! This week, Jamie Krakover, an aerospace engineer by day and a sci-fi and fantasy writer by night, joins Kaycee to discuss her upcoming book Authority.
That’s right, this week we’re finally heading into the Dessen-verse. Sarah Dessen is one of Young Adult Literature’s best, and in this episode, we are talking about her 1998 novel Someone Like You. This is a coming-of-ag
Homecoming dances, overwhelming crushes, and…aliens?! In this episode about The Outsider, we're talking cosmic love. Melinda Metz packs in a whole lot of intergalactic goodness and meaningful themes in the first book of
In this month’s Featured Author Episode, Kaycee is joined by Bethanie Finger to talk about her nautical Young Adult Fantasy novel More Than Life. Discussions of topic include: incorporating grief into storytelling, world
Note: We’d like to blame Simon and Schuster for using the wrong name for one of the characters in the book blurb, which Kaycee reads at the beginning of the episode. There is no Lauren in this book, so we stand corrected
Frutopia mornings, business casual afternoons, and makeover weekends…Kaycee introduces Ashley to the best of Sweet Valley, which mean talks about black shampoo-in hair-dye, Jeffrey French romances, and Jessa Fields. Foll
We are so sad to be wrapping up this Dear Diary season, but happy to have our favorite complicated woman of history, Marie Antoinette, to do it with. We read Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles of The Royal Diaries
This episode is all about Titanic Culture, one of the most important things to hit our little 8 year old brains. Everyone was hopping on the Titanic obsession back in the late 90s, and Scholastic was no exception. Enter
In this episode, Phoebe’s Diary by Phoebe Wahl (pub. 2023) allowed us to take our own trip down memory lane back to being a teenager in 2006. In a fictionalized diary based on her teenage years, Phoebe Wahl explores emba
We revisited The Healing Time of Hickeys by Karen Rivers (published in 2003) about 20 years after we read it the first time, which means we spotted a lot of the things that made us who we are in the pages of this book. T
A contemporary queer YA romance novel written in letters? Set in Minneapolis, Minnesota? With lots of Prince talk? Wow, what a treat We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra (published in 2019) was for us this week. Topics
This week’s book is all about learning how to stay Best Friends 4Ever from across the country, something we personally know a little about after moving so far away from each other :(. We read P.S. Longer Letter Later by
This week, we have a much more nuanced, empathetic take on teens, drugs, and addiction than our last entry in the YA Diary genre. We read Things I’ll Never Say by Cassandra Newbould, published in 2023. It's a beautiful s
We’re starting this season off with a novel that was near and dear to a naive twelve-year-old Kaycee’s heart. Go Ask Alice, a book that boasted being a REAL diary from a REAL fifteen-year-old girl was published in 1971,
In 2002 a drug called ecstasy and a little Canadian teen drama by the name of Degrassi: The Next Generation combined to make one of the best television episodes of our young lives Degrassi proves a lot can happen in 23 m
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