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Feb 2025
7m 57s

Whats Your Favorite Book?

Kitty Felde
About this episode

We polled readers at the City of Stem/LA Maker Faire about their favorite books. (By the way, Book Club for Kids will be taping more book suggestion interviews at this year's event on Saturday, April 12th at Exposition Park in Los Angeles.) Kitty Felde is host.

FAVORITE BOOKS FROM THE CITY OF STEM/LA MAKER FAIRE:

Orphan, Monster, Spy - Matt Killeen

Wonder - R.J. Palacio

Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan

Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Heidi Heckelbeck and the Never-Ending Day - Wanda Coven

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling

The Fourth Closet - Christopher Hastings, Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley

Felix and Phoebe's Robot - Team 4 Element

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney

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