Bees on the Roof by Robbie Shell
Book Club for Kids

Bees on the Roof by Robbie Shell

B1IntermediateJune 17, 202638 min

We take the show on the road to the Enoch Pratt Free Library Children's stage at the Baltimore Book Festival for a conversation about Robbie Shell's novel BEES ON THE ROOF. Our group of readers have been meeting to talk about books almost since they first

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It's the Book Club for Kids. It's the Book Club for Kids. It's the Book Club for Kids. It's the Book Club for Kids.

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It's the Book Club for Kids podcast. It was a special on the road edition of the Book Club for Kids podcast. We're here to talk about bees, teamwork, and fabulous pastries. It's Robby Shell's book called Bees on the Roof.

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The writer herself will be with us a little later on as well as our celebrity reader, the fabulous actress Grace Baker. This is the Book Club for Kids, the podcast where middle grade readers talk about books. And we'll tell you how you can be on the show a little later on.

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