Episode 66 - The War That Saved My Life
Book Club for Kids
English - April 23, 2018 21:52 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MB - ★★★★ - 331 ratingsKids & Family Education Courses curriculum amreading bookclub books kidcast kidlit middlegrade recommendedreading reluctantreaders Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, we travel back to a world at war – to England at the beginning of the London Blitz. The book is "The War That Saved My Life." Writer Kimberley Brubaker Bradley tells the tale of the mass evacuation of children to the British countryside. Our readers are from Belvedere Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia. Our celebrity reader is Congresswoman Julia Brownley from Thousand Oaks, California.