It's a bonus edition of the book club for kids.
Hi, I'm Kitty Faldi and we are coming to you from the 2025 edition of the city of STEM LA Maker Faire.
We're here at the book club for kids booth among the robots and the rocketeers asking kids our very favorite question, what's your favorite book?
Hello. My name is Jaylin.
I'm in eighth grade and go to Lewis Middle School.
My favorite book series is the Maze Runner.
I like that series because it's really exciting and like fast paced and that's kind of how I like reading books and stuff.
It's really exciting and I like the topics that it has in there and the characters you get to like love a lot.
And it's just a really cool series.
Hello, my name is Abigail and I go to AES and I'm in fourth grade.
and my favorite book is Sisters by Ray Nitellgemeier.
Yes! Tell me why you love that book?
I like it cuz it shows how sisters act towards each other and like the relationship between sisters.
Do you have a sister?
I have no siblings.
I'm an only child. Would you like to have a sister?
Kinda. Same age, yeah probably.
You want to be a twin, right?
Yea. I have no sisters either.
I have six brothers.
Oh! So maybe I should read this book too.
My name is Noah and I am seven years old, second grade.
I have three favorite books.
My Weird School, L .A.
Jake's and Magic Treehouse.
Why? I don't know. They're funny.
Hello my name is Bruce Roosevelt second grade.
My favorite book is Dogman because there's a lot of graphics.
Well, a lot of books have graphics in it why is Dogman better than the others?
Oh there's a bunch of funny stuff like a blow up.
Like a what? A blow up.
Tell me what that is?
Once where a dog man got inside a blow -up and then he flew into the cop station Why is that funny?
Cuz he landed on the Chiefs new couch. That's pretty silly.
Have you read a lot of the dog man?
mostly all Why don't they kids like dog man so much?
I don't know What's popular?
Hello, my name is Naya.
I'm in seventh grade I go to st. Patricks Catholic school and my favorite book is Canyon's Edge because it takes place in the desert and I love deserts and has a lot of excitement and a lot of action because she gets lost in the desert and she has to find her dad before it's too late so I think I really like that do you like survival stories as a rule kind of it's more because she has to escape like this monster in her mind and so I really like that part wasn't like nightmarish kind of scary at all?
Not really, but it was scary at some times.
Would you like to get lost in the desert?
Would you think you'd be able to escape and take care of yourself?
My name is Mianna. I go to a elementary and I'm in third grade.
My favorite book is a babysitter's club.
I like the babysitter's club because I I think there was a movie or a show of it, and that's why I like it.
Well, there's lots of movies and TV shows about a lot of books.
Why do you like this one?
I don't know. Are you a babysitter?
No. Would you like to be?
Yeah. Hello, my name is Ramone, and I go to Rosemary Kennedy Elementary School, and my favorite book is Harry Potter.
It's a movie, and I think the book is way better than the movie because it has more details.
Is that what happens mostly with books and movies, that the book is better?
Yes. I really don't know, but it might be because it might cost too much money.
Hello, my name is Adrian.
I'm in sixth grade and I go to Arizona Middle School.
My favorite book is one of the Fazbear Frights, because I like the games and I like to learn more.
Are you a good gamer?
Yes. What's your best score and what's your best game?
Like 60 ,000 on like a driving game.
I don't know if I want to drive with you though, dude.
We'll have a list of everybody's favorite books at our website BookClubForKids .org on our Books We Love page.
And if you have a favorite book, you can be on the Book Club for Kids Podcast, too.
We will be at the LA Times Festival of Books on and Sunday.
That's the last weekend of April at USC.
So drop by Booth 569, that's Chesapeake Press.
569 in the Kids Area.
I'll be there with my microphone to record you for a future podcast. And while you're there, you can pick up an autographed copy of my Fina Mendoza Mysteries series.
The latest title, Snake in the Grass, is now on sale.
That's at Booth 569 in the LA Times Festival of Books.
See you there! .
