It's a bonus edition of The Book Club for Kids.
Hi, I'm Kitty Feldy.
We return this week to the City of STEM LA Maker Faire to find out what future scientists are reading these days.
Hello my name is Andrew and I'm from Mitchell in Santa Clarita and I'm in 6th grade and my favorite book is Diary of a Wimpy Kid because it talks about like real life things that and I just like reading about that.
Wait a minute, there's a lot of odd stuff that happens in those books.
Did all of that happen to you?
Because you said it happened in real life.
No, it didn't happen, it's just, because it's about a kid who's in middle school, and it's also nice to know what would happen in middle school when I'm older.
So it prepared you for middle school?
Yeah. Hello, my name is Elise.
I'm in 10th grade and my favorite book would probably be The Count of Monte Cristo.
It's a really fun story, I've read it over a number of years.
the writing style is intriguing and it's one of those books that's just kind of timeless like no matter what age you are you can enjoy it.
Do you like the rest of Dumas?
Have you read the Three Musketeers?
I do enjoy the rest of Dumas's stuff especially the Three Musketeers.
He's just an engaging writer I feel like he comprehensively writes at storylines there's multiple story arcs and each of the characters feel real and the endings are realistic.
Hello my name is Juliet and I'm in seventh grade.
My favorite book is the Books of Bayern series because they're engaging and interesting and they have a lot of different stories.
It's four books and each of them tells the story of a different person in the in the same area, the Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale.
Hello my name is Zia.
I'm in second grade at Oreo school.
My favorite book series is Five Worlds.
Five Worlds, why? I don't know just because I kind of just like it.
I don't know that book so tell me about it.
What happens in it?
It's about three people and it's fancie.
Oh, you're a fantasy fan.
Why? Because I Guess I just like it Hello, my name is Jill.
I'm in seventh grade and I'm homeschooled with Excel Academy and my favorite book series is the Hardy Boys book because I love mystery and solving crimes.
Do you think you see yourself as a detective in the future?
Maybe! What would make you a good detective?
What quality about you?
I know a lot about everything.
Hello, my name is Quinn.
I'm in seventh grade.
I go to American Martyrs.
My favorite book is Six of Crows because it's a very interesting heist book.
there's six different characters and they all have their unique personalities and they're completely different and they have to try to work together to complete a hard heist how would you describe this is this an adventure book or what yes it's an adventure and what makes it interesting just the setting and like the old it's like an old revolutionary theme do you like historical stuff yes like what's your favorite era American Revolution hello my name is Dylan I go to Valley View Charter Montessori my favorite book is Percy Jackson five and it's also tied between Percy Jackson's Greek heroes there's
that whole series by Rick Riordan why are those two the standouts because Percy Jackson 5 is the battle and I always like battles and uh Greek Heroes is just really humorous What makes it funny?
There's just a bunch of jokes and stuff and like cough cough me cough cough so I can't really decide it's just battles are cool and the facts are humorous Hello, my name is Kira.
I go to Valleyview, China Montessori, and my favorite book is Wings of Fire because I literally love it, how it's about dragons and it's their point of view instead of the humans.
And it's not like the human world, it's dragon world, and there's like little TVs or screens or any day.
And there's like epic battles.
Why, why do dragons think differently than we do?
Well, because they're, like, it shows that they're also smarter than humans, they established, like, houses and communities.
They also, like, can fly which is, I think, pretty cool.
There's, like, different types of dragons, so, that just makes it even better.
Um, hello, my name is Olivia, I go to Raleigh View, um, to try a Montessori.
My favorite book is I Would Be Kid because I love how it's so funny and I love it so much and yeah.
Do you feel like you're thinking the same way that the kid in Would Be Kid thinks?
Yes, probably because of my my brother yeah he is he is not my type.
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