Hello and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books to get to their hearts with your host, me, Raylene, and me. It's Arieline. Whoa. That's true. What an entrance. So this week is our recommendations episode.

But before we dive in, Ariel has a little bit of news.

And I'll just re-record that part in case it gets cut.

Okay.

So this week is our recommendations episode.

So like we did last time, we have four different recommendation requests,

and we are going to just dive right in and answer them.

I will start with my recommendation which comes from Jenny, and she says,

Hi, Ariel and Raylene. I'm about to start teaching in high school, and especially with the current situation,

I'm trying to encourage my students to get away from screens and read more.

However, I do have a lot of reluctant readers slash kids who say they hate reading or haven't

found a book they enjoy. Any recommendations for these kinds of young people? Thank you both.

I like this one. These kinds of young people. Young folks. What did you pick for this one?

Well, okay, first I wanted to give a general, hard general recommendation to YAA dystopian.

I'm going to tell you right now, that's going to be your salvation.

I believe that.

As a person who was a teenager during the boom of Y.A. dystopian. I can confirm that it's fucking great

to read. It is so fun to read a Y.A. dystopian. I think it just hits on a lot of the fun

things. Like, the characters are teens, and usually they're going through. And like, I'm

talking maze runner, uglies, hunger games, a freaking battle royale, which I haven't read, but I've

heard great things about. Those sorts of books, delirium, I don't know, those sorts of books,

they're about a political system that's falling apart. So you've got this really fun, big world overarching plot.

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