Teenage Bookbag

Pirates!

Welcome to Teenage Bookbag, where your hosts Leah and Mary-Kate revisit the books they loved in middle school. For this episode, we're talking about Pirates!, by Celia Rees. Set sail with us back to the early 2000s and rediscover this jewel of YA historical fiction. Timestamps for the specific content warning mentioned in the episode (Leah's first excerpt reading and discussion): 26:50 to 44:40 Intro music: "Not Lazy," by Mr. Smith, accessed via the Free Music Archive and used under Creative Commons license CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/])

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Welcome to Teenage Bookbag, where your hosts Leah and Mary-Kate revisit the books they loved in middle school. For our very first episode, we're talking about Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, by Louise Rennison. Be prepared for us to name drop our old crushes, share stories of our own embarassing adolescent exploits, and revel in some very British humor. Intro music: "Not Lazy," by Mr. Smith, accessed via the Free Music Archive and used under Creative Commons license CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/])