WOW Reads
Worlds of Words Center of Global Literacies and Literatures is committed to creating an international network of people who share the vision of bringing books and children together, thereby opening windows on the world. The WOW Reads podcast centers voices of young readers who serve as Reading Ambassadors by engaging in literature discussions and author interviews and sharing books in their school and social contexts. Worlds of Words is a center in the University of Arizona College of Education.
Episodes
29 episodes
WOW Reads: S3, E6 - TRAP Reads Dear Manny by Nic Stone
Join the Worlds of Words Center Teen Reading Ambassadors (TRAP) as we discuss Dear Manny by Nic Stone.Nic Stone is open and warm, just like ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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18:42
WOW Reads: Bonus - RAP on University of Arizona Museum Day 2025
Join the Worlds of Words Center Reading Ambassadors (middle and high school) as we recap our experience around University of Arizona Museum Day.Twelve cultural and...
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Season 3
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10:55
WOW Reads: S3, E5 - MSRAP Reads A Strange Thing Happened at Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga
Join the Worlds of Words Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors (MSRAP) as we recap our experience around A Stra...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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24:21
WOW Reads: S3, E4 - TRAP Reads The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow
Join the Worlds of Words Center Teen Reading Ambassadors (TRAP) as we discuss The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow.In this episode ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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20:41
WOW Reads: S3, E3 - TRAP Reads Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg
Join the Worlds of Words Center Teen Reading Ambassadors (TRAP) as we discuss Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg....
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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24:15
WOW Reads: Bonus - MSRAP Reads for Mock Caldecott
Join the Worlds of Words Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors (MSRAP) as we recap our experience around predicting the 2025 Randolph Caldecott Medal winner for pictureb...
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Season 3
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33:26
WOW Reads: S3, E2 - MSRAP Reads Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan
Join the Worlds of Words Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors (MSRAP) as we recap our experience around Buffalo Dreamer by
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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24:08
WOW Reads: S3, E1 - MSRAP Reads Miracle by Karen S. Chow
Join the Worlds of Words Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors (MSRAP) as we recap our experience around Miracle by ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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25:33
WOW Reads: S2, Bonus - End of Year Review
"We had ups." - GabrielWorlds of Words Center Middle School and Teen Reading Ambassadors discuss the past academic year as they read and promoted reading together.As each group read their four novels, we encountered issues aroun...
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Season 2
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25:46
WOW Reads: S2, E7 - RAP Reads A Little Like Waking by Adam Rex
Join the Worlds of Words Center Middle School and Teen Reading Ambassadors as we discuss A Little Like Waking by Adam Rex.We open the episode by descr...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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17:40
WOW Reads: S2, E6 - MSRAP Reads Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera
Join the Worlds of Words Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors (MSRAP) as we discuss Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera.In this episode, we discuss Other books...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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18:59
WOW Reads: S2, E5 - TRAP Reads The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee by Ellen Oh
Join the Worlds of Words Center Teen Reading Ambassadors (TRAP) as we discuss The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee by Ellen Oh...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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16:31
WOW Reads: S2, E4 - TRAP Reads Up In Flames by Hailey Alcaraz
Join the Worlds of Words Center Teen Reading Ambassadors (TRAP) as we discuss Up In Flames by Hailey Alcaraz.We talk retellings ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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24:13
WOW Reads: Bonus - Reading Ambassadors On the 2024 Caldecott Award
Join the Worlds of Words Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors (MSRAP) as we discuss our experience participating in a mock Randolph Caldecott Medal award event to determine our winner for the most distinguished artist of an American picture...
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Season 2
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12:59
WOW Reads: S2, E3 - MSRAP Reads The Kingdom Over the Sea by Zohra Nabi
Join the Worlds of Words Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors (MSRAP) as we discuss The Kingdom Over the Sea by Zohra Nabi.We te...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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22:55
WOW Reads: S2, E2 - MSRAP Reads Clarice the Brave by Lisa McMann
Join the Worlds of Words Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors (MSRAP) as we discuss Clarice the Brave by Lisa McMann.In this episode, the Reading Ambassadors talk about the theme of separation. We also butcher the word "ant...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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19:10
WOW Reads: S2, E1 - TRAP Reads The Broke Hearts by Matt Mendez
Join the Worlds of Words Center Teen Reading Ambassadors (TRAP) as we discuss The Broke Hearts by Matt Mendez.This episode gets personal as we elaborate on Matt's suggestion that we never stop becoming something.It was ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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13:12
WOW Reads: Bonus - TRAP's Season 1 Year In Review
Join the WOW Center Teen Reading Ambassadors (TRAP) as we recap our year together.The novel in verse that Alessa refers to in this episode is
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Season 1
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24:59
WOW Reads: Episode 7: MSRAP Reads Distress Signal by Mary E. Lambert
Join the WOW Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors as we discuss Distress Signal by Mary E. Lambert.This podc...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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16:30
WOW Reads: Episode 6 - TRAP Reads Echoes of Grace by Guadalupe García McCall
Join the WOW Center Teen Reading Ambassadors (TRAP) as we discuss Echoes of Grace by Guadalupe García McCall.Special shout out to
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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15:01
WOW Reads: Episode 5 - MSRAP Reads The Many Assassinations of Samir the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri
Join the WOW Center Middle School Reading Ambassadors (MSRAP) as we discuss The Many Assassinations of Samir the Seller of Dreams b...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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9:47
WOW Reads: Bonus - Reading Ambassadors on Outstanding International Books
Join the WOW Center Middle School and Teen Reading Ambassadors as we discuss the 2023 Outstanding International Books from the United States Board on Books for Young Peop...
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Season 1
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14:16
WOW Reads: Bonus - TRAP Joins NEA's Big Read Tucson
Join the WOW Center Teen Reading Ambassadors (TRAP) as we discuss Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz and We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade as part of the National Endowment of the Arts' (NEA)
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Season 1
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30:51