TOP TEN LIST: #7: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Release Date: 06/11/2025
Favorite Books from You and the National Book Festival
Book Club for Kids
If you’ve listened to the show before, you know that we ask everybody our favorite question: What’s your favorite book and why. We ask it in classrooms, we ask it in libraries, and we ask if of YOU. A pair of twin brothers from Washington state picked up a phone and recorded their answers on the voice memo app of a smartphone and sent it to us. We also visit the National Book Club in the other Washington: Washington, D.C. Kitty Felde is host.
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A Conversation with Janet Macreery
Book Club for Kids
We have a conversation with "A Little Wicked" author Janet Macreery about two kids of writers: plotters and pantsers. Kitty Felde is host.
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A Conversation with Janet Macreery
Book Club for Kids
We have a conversation with "A Little Wicked" author Janet Macreery about two kids of writers: plotters and pantsers. Kitty Felde is host.
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NPR's Susan Stamberg live from the National Archive
Book Club for Kids
We reprise our episode taped before a live audience at the National Archives. Readers from the Girlfriends BookClub Baltimore discuss A Little Wicked by Janet Macreery with host Kitty Felde. Celebrity reader is NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg.
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A Conversation with Lisa Thompson
Book Club for Kids
Does a background in radio help you write dialogue? What's the one thing you should never include in a book designed for readers with dyslexia? We ask the expert: Lisa Thompson, author of "The Light Jar" and other middle grade novels.
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The Light Jar by Lisa Thompson
Book Club for Kids
Did you have an imaginary friend when you were little? Nate did. And he's back. Just in time. Students from in Los Angeles discuss 's novel "The Light Jar." NPR newscaster is celebrity reader and Kitty Felde is host. FAVORITE BOOKS FROM GARVANZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: The Stand - Stephen King A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson LISA THOMPSON'S FAVORITE BOOK: Charlotte's Web - E.B. White DALE WILLMAN'S FAVORITE BOOKS: Hardy Boys - Franklin W. Dixon Tom Swift - Victor Appleton
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Favorite Books from Manchester Elementary
Book Club for Kids
We visit Maine to talk to readers at Manchester Elementary School about their favorite books. Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss Toilet-bound Hanako-kun - Iro Forgotten Girl - India Hill Brown Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus - Dusti Bowling Naruto the Boy Ninja - Masashi Kishimoto Warriors - Erin Hunter Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney I Survived - Lauren Tarshis Ellie's Story: A Dog's Purpose - W. Bruce Cameron If you'd like to be on the Book Club for Kids podcast, send us an email to and we'll send you all the information....
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Episode 24 - Al Capone Does My Shirts - live from the Gaithersburg Book Festival
Book Club for Kids
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 DOES MY SHIRTS. NPR newscaster Jack Speer is celebrity reader. Past Book Club for Kids guests drop by as well. Kitty Felde is host.
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Episode 49 - Ungifted by Gordon Korman
Book Club for Kids
What does it mean to be "gifted?" Don't we all have unique gifts to share with the world? Readers from Eliot-Hine Middle School on Capitol Hill discuss Gordon Korman's story of a prankster who lands in a "Gifted" program. KNX sports anchor (and Talking About Cars podcast host) Randy Kerdoon is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.
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Donna Barba Higuera
Book Club for Kids
Kitty Felde talks to the author of Lupe Wong Won't Dance about creating an unlikeable character. She also gives us a sneak preview of a new science fiction novel she's writing.
info_outlineWe're celebrating our ten year anniversary as a podcast! And to celebrate, we're counting down our list of the TOP TEN MOST LISTENED TO EPISODES. This week, it's number 7: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. We're lucky to have DC's Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton as our celebrity reader. Students from Washington DC's Jefferson Academy discuss the novel with host Kitty Felde.
Favorite Books from Jefferson Academy
Recommended by Jefferson Academy's Aarianna, Enyjaih, and Reece:
Little Women - Louisa Mae Alcott
145th Steet - Walter Dean Myers
Recommended by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton:
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Recommended by Kami Garcia:
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The White Mountains - John Christopher
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Spiderwick - HollyBlack/Tony DiTerlizzi
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Recommended by YOU:
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline