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.

 

October 1998

Theme: Nancy Drew Mysteries

Guest reviewers: Alivia Cotten and Crystal Burch, Rundlett Middle School

 

Books reviewed:

Till Death Do Us Part : The Nancy Drew Files Case #24 / Carolyn Keene. Pocket Books, 1988.

Over the Edge : The Nancy Drew Files Case #36 / Carolyn Keene. Pocket Books, 1989.

 

Books recommended:

 

Stranger at the Window / Vivien Alcock. Houghton, 1998.

Once Upon a Dark November / Carol Beach York. Holiday House, 1989.

Wait Till Helen Comes / Mary Downing Hahn. Avon, 1987.

Night Cry / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Atheneum, 1984.

Seaview Manor / Elissa Grandower. Doubleday, 1976.

 

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11/30/98 -- njk

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