Book Club for Kids

You've been calling us with your favorite books. Here's the latest list:
Keeper of the Lost Cities - Shannon Messenger
House Arrest - K.A.Holt
The Running Dream -  Wendelin Van Draanen
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus - Barbara Park
That Pigeon Needs a Bath - Mo Willems
A Dinosaur in the Toilet - Horace Hughes
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
The Land of Stories - Cris Colfer
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Sarafina and the Black Cloak - Robert Beatty
Missing Since Monday- Ann Martin
The Cat I Never Named -  Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules -Jeff Kinney
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Diary of Steve the Noob - Steve the Noob
If you have a favorite book, you can be on the show, too! Just give us a call at 424- 209-2285 and tell us your first name, the city where you live, the name of your favorite book, and why you love it.

Witches, monsters, and a brave little thief. Those are the ingredients in Claire Legrand's novel "Foxheart." The book was chosen by Book Club for Kids fan Kailas. She and her two fellow readers Iona and Gabi discussed the novel one sunny Sunday afternoon upstairs at Boulder Bookstore with host Kitty Felde. Our celebrity reader is actor Wesley Mann. And writer Claire Legrand explains how "Foxheart" began as a short story on a website.

What's it like to be adopted? Does your adopted family's history become your history or do you feel the need to find your biological story? Our book this week is "The Length of a String" by Elissa Brent Weissman. It's a Holocaust story about a Jewish family separated by the war. Readers from the Girlfriends Book Club of Baltimore at Hazelwood Elementary Middle School discuss the book and pose lots of questions to our writer. Actor and producer Bari Hochwald is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.

Last week, we heard a bit from writer Jennifer L. Holm when we discussed her book "Turtle in Paradise." In this Bonus Episode, we hear more about Jenni's trilogy of books inspired by family stories.