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Gwen and Andy both are astounded that the end of the year is almost upon them, and with that in mind, they’ve picked their favorite books of 2016 for young readers. The Two People with PhDs each picked five books in the children’s category and five books in the intermediate/young adult (YA) category, but something odd happened: their lists were almost identical! In the children’s category, Gwen and Andy both chose the following four books, many of which they have already discussed on previous episodes. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Alamo All-Stars, by Nathan Hale (Harry N. Abrams) Hippopotamister, by John Patrick Green (First Second) The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo, by Drew Weing (First Second) Bera the One-Headed Troll, by Eric Orchard (First Second) Andy diverged by picking Bert’s Way Home, by John Martz (Koyama Press), the story of an orphan named Bert who’s no regular orphan, but an orphan of time and space, stranded on Earth after a cosmic accident. Gwen’s final pick in this category