The Book Club for Kids podcast began in the smallest quadrant of Washington DC called Southwest. It was the waterfront for DC, the place where ships would dock bringing everything from building supplies to fresh fish to slaves. This week marks the 178th anniversary of what Washington Post writer Colbert King calls "one of the most courageous acts in antebellum America": the attempted escape of African American slaves on a ship docked at the Southwest waterfront, a ship called the Pearl.

This week, Book Club for Kids honors its roots by reprising our one episode featuring a non fiction book: Passenger on the Pearl by Winifred Conkling, taped before a live audience at Virginia's Fall for the Book Festival. Lolita Marie is our celebrity reader.

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You've been calling us with your favorite books. Here's the latest list:

Keeper of the Lost Cities - Shannon Messenger

House Arrest - K.A.Holt

The Running Dream - Wendelin Van Draanen

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus - Barbara Park

That Pigeon Needs a Bath - Mo Willems

A Dinosaur in the Toilet - Horace Hughes

Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery

The Land of Stories - Cris Colfer

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Sarafina and the Black Cloak - Robert Beatty

Missing Since Monday- Ann Martin

The Cat I Never Named - Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules -Jeff Kinney

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Diary of Steve the Noob - Steve the Noob

If you have a favorite book, you can be on the show, too! Just give us a call at 424- 209-2285 and tell us your first name, the city where you live, the name of your favorite book, and why you love it.