Lois Lowry's THE GIVER
Teen Creeps
Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Kelly and Katai talk Lois Lowry's THE GIVER! They talk suppression, the impossibility of complete protection, and the whacked out movie Me Before You!
CW: vague discussion of suicide in the context of the movie Me Before You
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Teen Creep's listeners, Kelly here. I wrote a book. I'm really, really proud of it, and I cannot wait to share it with you. It's called The Latchkey Twins Case Number 46th, The Twins Solve a Murder. This is the 46th book in a fictional, non-existent series about two child detectives named Pesto and Turnpike, and they're twins, but they couldn't be more |
| 0:22.5 | different. Vastidious and careful Pesto is happy with the cases they've been solving. What's wrong with |
| 0:27.0 | cupcake capers and degenerate dognappers? Meanwhile, Turnpike, the troublemaker, longs for more adventure. |
| 0:32.4 | When they stumble upon a murder in their peaceful town of River Valley, the twins embark on a |
| 0:36.6 | journey unlike anything |
| 0:37.7 | they've ever experienced. This murder mystery is the spookiest, bloodiest case yet faced by |
| 0:42.7 | the Lachkey Twins. This is a nostalgic, fantastical romp in the world of vintage children's |
| 0:48.2 | horror mysteries. So check it out. We have the link to purchase in the episode description. I would |
| 0:53.0 | appreciate any support. I'm also going to work to try and get this thing in libraries. I don't know. I'm doing this all by myself. But I'm appreciative of any kind of support. Thanks so much, guys. Enjoy the episode. This week on the podcast, Lois Lowes-Lowries, The Giver. |
| 1:25.7 | Hello, welcome to Teen Creeps, the podcast that discusses YAA Pulp Fiction and more. |
| 1:29.8 | I'm one of your host, Lindsay K. Tai. |
| 1:31.4 | I'm another one of your host, Kelly Nugent. |
| 1:33.2 | And this week, we are back to YA. |
| 1:36.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.8 | With The Giver by Lois Lowry. |
| 1:38.8 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:40.0 | Extremely famous book. |
| 1:41.9 | Extremely famous. |
| 1:42.9 | Newberry Award winner. Extrem uh required reading yep um very very i mean i liked it |
| 1:51.2 | it's great it's so good it's a classic for a reason it's a classic for a reason it's a |
| 1:56.0 | fucking good and her both afterward and they included the Newberry Award acceptance speech in here is... |
| 2:04.3 | Oh, I didn't see the acceptance speech. So fucking good. The acceptance speech is so good. |
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