Hi, everybody. Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen.

And I'm Frank. And we are here with two very special guests today just in time for Thanksgiving. So you can settle back and cook your turducken, bake your turducken,

do something to your turducken, deep fry your turduckin, and listen, turducken. Yeah. You

don't know what that is. It's like internet sensation a couple years ago. It's like a turkey with a duck

with a chicken all wrapped together. Oh dear. Okay. Inside each other, yeah. I thought it was like Tofurky or something. I don't think. I have had Tofurkey. It's not that bad. We're here. Let's get back to the guests. With Grace Yamada and Grace Dwyer, who are two are two members of our Best Books for Teens Committee.

Um, and so today we're going to talk to them about the best books for teens list and also a bit about the best books for kids list, um, with both came out, uh, this week.

So hi, graces.

Hello.

We should all be grace today.

You should.

Do you want to tell people where you work and what kind of work you do?

Sure.

So I'm Grace DeWire.

I'm a young adult librarian in a branch on Staten Island, the Port Richmond branch.

We're on the North Shore.

And I'm pretty new to the library.

I just started here last year.

And I'm Grace Yamada. I'm also a young adult librarian at

the Mulberry Street branch, which is in Soho. Awesome. Thank you guys for coming. Yes. I will say,

oh, go ahead. No, you'll say what? I was just going to give a little history about the graces.

Well, I was going to segue into that, too, in that the leader of your committee, if I'm not mistaken, is Brian Stokes.

Correct?

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