The Name of This Book is Secret
Book Club for Kids

The Name of This Book is Secret

A2ElementaryJune 24, 202618 min

Would you like to live forever? When is it okay to lie? How do we prepare for a disaster? These and other big questions are tackled by students at Farmdale Elementary School in Los Angeles as they discuss The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch. Actress Satomi Hofmann is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host. Our producer Chad Francis picked this episode as his favorite! www.bookclubforkids.org

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which reminds me of some of the video games that I used to play in the early 2000s.

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Hi, I'm Kitty Feldy. Every summer we like to ask our producers and interns to tell us which of our episodes are their very favorite. So Chad Francis, what do you think? Hi, I'm Chad Francis, and I'm a producer here on Book Club for Kids,

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and my favorite episode is the name of this book is secret. And the reason is that it reminds me of the types of books and other media that I enjoyed as a kid. I was very much into these kind of complex books for my age, very early on, books that kind of played with your mind, right?

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So here we have a book with a big secret and a character who is in this survival mode, which reminds me of some of the video games that I used to play in the early 2000s. This genre of survival horror was very popular and one of those games was Silent Hill. It's another story that leaves up a lot for the player to imagine and it's a

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