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It's the hardest question in the world: what's your favorite book? Kids from LA County schools have some answers for host Kitty Felde.

The Fashion Fairies #2: Claudia the Accessories Fairy - Daisy Meadows

Rascal - Sterling North

Goosebumps - R.L. Stine

Dog Man - Dav Pilkey

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling

Wings of Fire - Tui T. Sutherland

Jedi Academy - Jeffrey Brown

The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart

Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan

School's starting. Have you finished your reading assignment? Need some more book suggestions? We've got a bunch from kids in Ireland and Los Angeles!

Here's a link to our episode of Esperanza Rising.

 Kitty Felde is host.

It’s that time of year when all you can think about is “how long until summer vacation?” So how do you keep kids engaged? Find a book they love. How? We hear from a group of 4^th graders in Los Angeles who have a few suggestions. Some are Book Club for Kids podcast episodes. Just click on the links:

Dog Man - Dav Pilkey

The Bad Guys - Aaron Blabey

Harry Potter series - J.K Rowling

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo

Ordinary People Change the World series

The Witches - Roald Dahl

Keeper of the Lost Cities - Shannon Messenger

Land of Stories - Chris Colfer

Thirst - Varsha Bajaj

The Giver - Lois Lowry

The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan

Baseball books

Pig the Stinker - Aaron Blabey

Wings of Fire (the graphic novel) - Tui T. Sutherland

Wayside School series - Louis Sachar

Big Ideas for Curious Minds: an Introduction to Philosophy

Lots more book suggestions on our "Books We Love" page of the website.

And check out Kids Radio LA, the podcast from the students at Atwater STEAM Elementary (and Mr. R!) 

We asked kids around the country to answer the hardest question in the world: what's your favorite book? And why? Here's just some of the suggestions we got from YOU:

Wish - Barbara O'Connor

Out of My Mind - Sharon Draper

A Stroke of Magic: The Dinosaur Woman - Brunella Costagliola  

The Cat I Never Named -  Amra Sabic-El-Rayess and Laura L. Sullivan

Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan

And if you have a favorite book, you can be on the BookClub for Kids podcast, too. Just record yourself on your smartphone telling us your first name, the city where you live, the name of your favorite book and why you love it and email the voice memo to us at bookclubforkidspodcast@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you! 

After months of rain, Southern California FINALLY had a weekend of sunshine. So we all paid a visit to the LA Maker Faire and City of Stem festival near downtown Los Angeles. We asked kids to tell us all about their favorite books. Some of these might become YOUR favorite book, too!

The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss

The Couch Potato - Jory John

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney

The Berenstain Bears - Jan Berenstain

Spy School - Stuart Gibbs

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Feeling Sorry for Celia - Jaclyn Moriarty

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Calvin & Hobbs - Bill Watterson

Looking for your next great read? Students at Malxolm X Elementary School in Washington, DC have some suggestions for books that will inspire you or scare you or make you laugh. Kitty Felde is host.

We take the show on the road to the Orange County, California Maker Faire to ask kids and robots the name of their favorite book and why they love it. Our special guest, Star Wars superstar R2D2 shares his favorite books with host Kitty Felde.

Special thanks to Steve of Astromech.net, the club that builds R2D2 robots. 

We visit our favorite Virginia bookstore HOORAY FOR BOOKS to talk to members of the store’s youth advisory council. These young readers are quite the experts. Every month, they take home what’s called an ArC – an advanced readers copy – of a new book. And then they meet after school to let bookstore owner Ellen Klein know what they thought – and whether they think she should buy the book for their bookshelves. Host Kitty Felde brought her microphone to ask them our favorite question: what’s your favorite book?

Are your kids lagging behind in their summer reading? Maybe they just haven't found their next favorite read. We ask the experts - kids at this year's City of Stem event - to tell us about their favorite books. Kitty Felde is host.

Looking for your next great read? Our experts - kids from the City of Stem festival in Downey, California - have a few suggestions for host Kitty Felde.