What do you get when you mix kids, books and talk radio? You get Kid's Book Beat. Each month on WKXL Radio, Rundlett Library Media Specialist Nancy J. Keane takes to the airwaves to talk about books. Students join her for a book discussion. There is a different theme each month and listeners are encouraged to call in to join the chat.

 

April 1999

Guest reviewers: Morissa Sobellson and Jen Poppe

Books reviewed by students:

Fitzgerald, John D. The Great Brain. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2000. Reviewed by Colin Curley, Rundlett Middle School.

Paulsen, Gary.  Harris and Me. New York : Yearling Press, 1995.  Reviewed by Jessica Demmons, Rundlett Middle School.

Paulsen, Gary.  Hatchet. New York : Aladdin, 1999.  Reviewed by Brittany Pelky, Rundlett Middle School.

 

Books recommended:

The Great Brain series
Brian's winter
Witch Hazel / Alice Shertle
Number the stars / Lois Lowry
Tale of Three Trees / Angela Hunt
Holes / Louis Sachar
Walk Two Moons / Sharon Creech
Chasing Redbird / Sharon Creech
A Year Down Yonder / Richard Peck
Bat 6 / Virginia Euwer Wolff
Horse for Every Season
Boy and His Bear / Harriet Graham
The Giver / Lois Lowry
Among the Hidden / Margaret Peterson Haddix
Summer of the Monkeys
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry
A Summer to Die / Lois Lowry
Upstairs Room
Memories of Anne Frank / Hannah Gold
Bud Not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis
Watsons Go To Birmingham -- 1963 / Christopher Paul Curtis
Where the Red Fern Grows
Polar Express / Chris Van Allsburg
Lloyd Alexander books
Wizard's Hall / Jane Yolen
Silent to the Bone
Hound of the Baskervilles

 

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