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The SSR Podcast

Each week, freelance writer and lifelong bookworm Alli Hoff Kosik will challenge a guest to reread a literary throwback or to experience for the first time ever a book they may have missed as a kid. A... Read more

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Episode 54: Sweet Valley High // Double Love

Episode 54: Sweet Valley High // Double Love

SSR is back for year TWO, and we’re kicking things off with a conversation about the first book in Francine Pascal’s bel... Read more

16 Jul 2019

1hr

Ranked #2

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Episode 52: Walk Two Moons

Episode 52: Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons was published in 1994 and went on to win the celebrated Newbery Medal in 1995. It’s the ... Read more

18 Jun 2019

58mins

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Ranked #3

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Episode 29: BSC Super Special // Baby-Sitters Island Adventure (Manuary)

Episode 29: BSC Super Special // Baby-Sitters Island Adventure (Manuary)

The Baby-Sitters Club Club’s Jack and Tanner join Alli for this history-making first episode of Manuary! In it, they bre... Read more

8 Jan 2019

1hr

Ranked #4

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Episode 76: The Clique

Episode 76: The Clique

In 2004, Lisi Harrison’s The Clique series launched with its first book, which was aptly titled The Clique. The book bro... Read more

17 Dec 2019

1hr 4mins

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Episode 17: Twilight

Episode 17: Twilight

In 2005, Stephanie Meyer’s YA vampire romance fantasy Twilight kicked off a four-book series, a blockbuster movie franch... Read more

9 Oct 2018

1hr

Ranked #6

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Episode 10: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Episode 10: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

On Episode 10, Good Christian Fun podcast co-host Caroline Ely joins us to discuss the third — but best known — book in ... Read more

21 Aug 2018

1hr 9mins

Ranked #7

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Episode 40: Little Women

Episode 40: Little Women

A century and a half after its publication, it’s time to give Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women the SSR treatment! With t... Read more

26 Mar 2019

1hr 1min

Ranked #8

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Episode 07: The Baby-Sitters Club // Kristy's Great Idea

Episode 07: The Baby-Sitters Club // Kristy's Great Idea

Say hello to your friends! The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin is quite possibly the most iconic book series of the 8... Read more

31 Jul 2018

53mins

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Episode 78: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Episode 78: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Happy 2020 and Happy Manuary, listeners! To kick off this special month, we’re welcoming Hunter from Shelf by Shelf for ... Read more

7 Jan 2020

59mins

Ranked #10

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Episode 60: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Episode 60: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

It’s finally happening… we’re talking about Harry Potter on the podcast! More specifically, Episode 60 of SSR is all abo... Read more

27 Aug 2019

59mins

Ranked #11

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Episode 05: Nancy Drew // The Secret of the Old Clock

Episode 05: Nancy Drew // The Secret of the Old Clock

Nancy Drew devotees, beware! On this episode of The SSR Podcast, Alli and her guest — Brooklyn-based writer Kase Wickman... Read more

17 Jul 2018

53mins

Ranked #12

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Episode 37: The Boxcar Children #1

Episode 37: The Boxcar Children #1

Allow us to (re)introduce you to Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden. You probably know them better as The Boxcar Chi... Read more

5 Mar 2019

1hr 2mins

Ranked #13

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Episode 68: Just as Long as We're Together

Episode 68: Just as Long as We're Together

There’s nothing quite like a simple, solid friendship story to really bring you back to what it felt like to be a kid, a... Read more

22 Oct 2019

1hr 6mins

Ranked #14

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Episode 38: The Face on the Milk Carton

Episode 38: The Face on the Milk Carton

You may know her as @molliereads from her blog Mollie Reads and her podcast No Thanks We’re Booked, and on this week’s e... Read more

12 Mar 2019

55mins

Ranked #15

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Episode 09: Little House on the Prairie

Episode 09: Little House on the Prairie

With the help of elementary education pro and super-reader Drew Gannon, we’re talking all things Little House on the Pra... Read more

14 Aug 2018

1hr

Ranked #16

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Episode 36: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Episode 36: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

If there’s one book that’s been requested for the podcast time and time again by women of all ages, it’s Judy Blume’s Ar... Read more

26 Feb 2019

1hr

Ranked #17

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Episode 86: Gossip Girl #1

Episode 86: Gossip Girl #1

XOXO, it’s (finally!) time for the SSR Gossip Girl episode!On Episode 86, Alli and guest Alexandra Monir discuss the ele... Read more

3 Mar 2020

1hr

Ranked #18

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Episode 75: Forever

Episode 75: Forever

At long last, SSR tackles the infamous “Judy Blume sex book” — her 1975 YA novel Forever! On Episode 75, Alli and her gu... Read more

10 Dec 2019

1hr 7mins

Ranked #19

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Episode 27: The Westing Game

Episode 27: The Westing Game

Ever since its publication in 1978, Ellen Raskin’s Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been introducing young rea... Read more

18 Dec 2018

58mins

Ranked #20

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Episode 62: To Kill a Mockingbird

Episode 62: To Kill a Mockingbird

Ever since its publication in 1960, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird has been earning accolades and showing up on scho... Read more

10 Sep 2019

1hr 7mins

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