Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Book Club for Kids

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

B1IntermediateAugust 31, 202620 min

It's Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen. And it was the choice of a group of 7th graders from Newport Middle School in Maryland. Writer Victoria Aveyard talks about the difference between writing books and writing screenplays. Our celebrity reader, NPR's Renee Montagne, brings to life our lightning girl Mare who is decidedly not excited about becoming a princess. Kitty Felde is host. www.bookclubforkids.org

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Hi, I'm Kitty Feldie. This week we enter a world divided into two kinds of people, the silver ruling elite and the red underclass. Victoria Aviards, Red Queen.

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And it was the choice of a group of seventh graders from Maryland. Every time I like sat down to read it, I couldn't look away.

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