The Storm Runner - J.C. Cervantes
Book Club for Kids

The Storm Runner - J.C. Cervantes

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 30, 202619 min

It's our 100th episode! To celebrate, we travel up to the Bay Area Book Festival to tape a live show celebrating "The Storm Runner" by J. C. Cervantes. This fantasy tale with Mayan mythology is a "Rick Riordan Presents" novel. Public radio journalist Erika Quilar from KQED is celebrity reader. Our readers are 6th graders at Albany Middle School in Northern California and they quiz our author. Kitty Felde is host.

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It's a book club for kids. It's a book club for kids. It's the book club for kids podcast. It's the book club for kids podcast. Indeed, I'm Kitty Felde and we are here live at the Bay Area Book Festival for this special on the road edition of the book club for kids podcast. Now the Book's Love for Kids is a podcast where middle grade readers talk about books

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and we will tell you how you can be on the show a little later on. But first, our panel of readers are here to talk about the book The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes. Now let's start off by having you guys introduce yourselves.

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Hi, I'm Sami. Hi, I'm Kiana. Hello, I'm Jonathan. We go to Albany Middle School and we're in sixth grade.

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