158 2022 YRCA Books, Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult, & The Iron Giant Preview

Indy reveals the winners (and who he thinks should have won) from the 2022 Young Readers Choice Awards like; New Kid by Jerry Craft, The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman, With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo, and more. Samantha revisits the early days of the pandemic with Jodi Picoult’s novel Wish You Were Here. Then we reveal next week’s big watch, the underappreciated 1999 animated classic The Iron Giant!

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult: https://www.jodipicoult.com/wish-you-were-here.html 

YRCA at EPL: https://www.epl.ca/yrca/

The Young Reader’s Choice Awards (YRCA) is a year-long reading program for children in Grades 4 to 12 living in Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana and Washington. Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA), it is the only award where children choose the nominated books and the winners.

The Iron Giant trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhS6Uinx5jw&ab_channel=WarnerBros.

The Iron Giant on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/589394?utm_source=justwatch-feed&tracking=justwatch-feed

The Iron Giant on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14428392