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Book Club for Kids

May 25, 2016

It was a rainy, muddy, fabulous day at the Gaithersburg Book Festival where this group of middle school students from Maryland discussed whether they'd like living on Alcatraz and if it's better to be the oldest or youngest in the family. Gennifer Choldenko answers their questions about researching her book AL CAPONE...


May 18, 2016

This week we find out what boys in Chicago and Pasadena have on their "must read" lists with visits to the Blackstone Public Library and the school library at Sequoyah School.


May 11, 2016

Would you like to step into a painting and enter another world? That's the world of THE SHADOWS by Jacqueline West, the first in the Books of Elsewhere series. It was the choice of the Girlfriends Book Club - Nicole, Nadia, Mikaela, and  Aubry. Our celebrity reader is MPR reporter Doualy Xaykaothao. Kitty Felde is...


May 4, 2016

The village of Coal City is about 60 miles southwest of Chicago. This week, we hear book recommendations from kids at the Coal City Public Library.