KJZZ's Lit Squad
Previous Episodes
-
The NDN Girls Book Club is a new group aimed at helping Native American writers. It’s the brainchild of poet Kinsale Drake, and the group features…
-
A 9-year-old girl’s effort to translate her great-great grandmother’s stories from Lipan Apache to Spanish and the impacts of technology and climate…
-
More and more school districts are facing challenges from parents and other community members who want certain books out of classrooms or libraries. It…
-
Dusti Bowling writes middle-grade books, as well as chapter books for younger readers. Bowling grew up in Arizona and still lives in the Valley; most of…
-
R. Eric Thomas writes for TV, the stage and has written two non-fiction books. But he’s now jumped into the young adult genre with a novel called "Kings…
-
Meet Jamie Sumner. She taught high school English for more than a decade before starting to write books for middle-grade readers — generally between 8 and…
-
There has been a lot of talk over the last year or so about the kinds of books students should and should not be reading in school, and what books kids…
-
There's a lot of talk about the kinds of books students should and should not be reading, and what books kids should have access to in libraries. At the…