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PODCAST

Stories Come to Life

Kathryn Lopez Luker

Listen to classic and modern stories come to life as librarian Kathryn Lopez Luker takes you on adventures in books.

kids & family stories for kids

All Episodes

36:52

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 9, 10, 11,...

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2026/01/01

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Not even a threatening note will stop determined young Nancy Drew from keeping her commitment to visit the two maiden ladies who live in the Turnbull Mansion. She wants to help them figure out who is trying to scare them and make them think their house is haunted. Nancy tries and tries, but is there really a secret passage or hidden panel in the house? And where is Carson Drew, Nancy’s father? He said h...

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49:07

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 17,...

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2026/01/01

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Nancy discovered that robbers have ransacked the Topham bungalow and packed all of the household goods into a moving van! Could the old Crowley clock be inside? As Nancy pursues the thieves and informs the police of the robbery, she wants to investigate the van and find the clock before all the stolen goods are confiscated by the police. But what if Nancy’s investigations are discovered? Now sit b...

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50:45

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 12,...

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2026/01/01

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. After learning from the Tophams where the old Crowley clock has been stored, Nancy tried to figure out a way to visit Moon Lake without causing the Tophams to become suspicious. Then she remembered the invitation from her friend, Helen Corning, to visit a camp right on the lakeshore. Delighted, Nancy drove to Moon Lake where she hoped to visit the Tophams’ bungalow to search for the clock. Now sit back,...

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35:22

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, Chapters 31 and 32

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2025/12/22

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. After a wonderful cousin-filled summer with friendships and adventures and excitement, it is time to close the cover of this lovely book. The Story Girl, the King siblings and cousins, Peter the hired boy, and even the lachrymose Sara Ray must all go on where we leave them. But there is this last episode of celebrations and discoveries before we say goodbye. Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story...

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58:03

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, Chapters 28, 29,...

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2025/12/10

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. It’s apple picking time up at the Hill Farms, and the whole group of cousins is busy harvesting the ripe beauties and listening to the Story Girl weave tales. Things take a deeply serious turn, though, when one of their number walks precariously close to the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, an...

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61:00

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, Chapters 25, 26,...

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2025/11/18

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. After a pleasant evening in the orchard when the grown-ups reminisced about their childhoods, the Story Girl had a wonderful idea for a new game the friends and cousins could play. Peter made quite an impression when it was his turn, and he actually sent nervous little Sara Ray into hysterics! These days of early autumn are times the children will recollect for the rest of their lives. Now sit back, rel...

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63:56

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, Chapters 22, 23,...

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2025/10/31

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Dream journals, a poisonous cucumber, and a possible bewitchment! These are some of the things you will encounter in today’s episode of The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery. I think it would be wonderful to have a group of cousins and close friends to spend time with and have adventures with. What exciting lives these eight young people lead! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Li...

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62:13

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 19, 20,...

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2025/10/24

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Is it a good practice to believe everything you read? When the Charlottetown newspaper prints a paragraph about how the mighty Day of Judgement may come on the twelfth at two in the afternoon, all the cousins and friends don’t know whether to be frightened or not. They all spend a long time searching their souls and making last-minute preparations for that great and dreadful day, whether it comes or not...

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48:23

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 16, 17,...

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2025/09/26

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. It’s almost time for the adults to come home from their long trip. But there are still adventures for all the cousins before their aunts, uncles, and parents arrive. A dark orchard can still be a bit frightening after everyone’s imagination is stimulated by the Story Girl. And will the Story Girl’s cooking skills ever come close to Felicity’s? Certainly, she can make a simple cornmeal pudding, or can sh...

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44:59

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 13, 14,...

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2025/08/06

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. When Uncle Alec, Aunt Janet, and Aunt Olivia leave for a wedding, Uncle Roger is left nominally in charge of the cousins. But it is really Felicity, the wonderful cook, who takes charge. Everything seems just fine, until she becomes too bossy. Dan rebels, and the consequences seem dire. What will happen when Dan decides to defy his sister and eat the bad berries? It is all too easy for a little power to...

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51:00

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 10, 11,...

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2025/07/16

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Poor Sara Ray wants so badly to go to the magic lantern show, but her mother, of course, has forbidden it. But because her mother will be out of town, she succumbs to the temptation the Story Girl proposes to sneak out and go anyway! But that leads to the Story Girl imposing a strict penance on herself. Was the price of urging someone to disobedience worth it? You’ll have to decide. Now sit back, ...

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57:11

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 7, 8,...

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2025/06/25

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. It seems that the Story Girl’s voice makes any story more interesting and exciting. When she tells the eighty-year-old chestnut about a girl who won herself a husband, everyone hangs on the Story Girl’s every word. This is a summer of ups and downs for the cousins, as they try to figure out, among other things, what God looks like, how to make sure Uncle Roger won’t tease them, and whether the magic see...

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55:55

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 4, 5,...

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2025/06/09

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. The summer I turned twelve years old, I was so sad when I finished all of the Anne of Green Gables books that were readily available at that time. This was in the 1970s, well before the resurgence of Anne’s popularity. But I LOVED L. M. Montgomery’s writing, and I longed to read other things she had written. So, I looked in the tall card catalog of the Salt Lake City Public Library and found one more bo...

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57:38

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 1, 2,...

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2025/06/02

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Lucy Maud Montgomery, who wrote Anne of Green Gables, also wrote a delightful book about Sara Stanley, better known as the Story Girl. Told from the perspective of Beverley, one of two brothers who have come to stay on a farm with their aunts and uncles and cousins while their father is away, this book takes place on Prince Edward Island in Canada. In this first episode, we meet Felix and Beverley and g...

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51:39

The Hardy Boys in The Secret of the Old Mill,...

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2025/05/01

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. It’s late at night, and Frank and Joe Hardy have decided to see if their suspicions are correct and the counterfeiters’ lair is in the abandoned old Turner mill. Can they sneak across the moonlit grass to reach the mill before the suspicious Markel finds them? And how can they ever catch the gang of crooks? Here is the thrilling conclusion of The Hardy Boys in The Secret of the Old Mill! Now sit back, r...

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56:30

The Hardy Boys in The Secret of the Old Mill,...

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2025/04/16

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. The passing of counterfeit money is continuing to affect people all around Bayport. Fenton Hardy believes the crooks’ headquarters must be somewhere nearby. When the counterfeiters’ actions affect the Hardy boys’ own mother, they decide to go sleuthing to see if they can find out something that will help bring the criminals to light. Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. List...

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56:20

The Hardy Boys in The Secret of the Old Mill,...

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2025/04/04

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. When Frank and Joe allow a man to get on their new motorboat, Sleuth, they are in for an adventure. Not only does a storm come up, hiding their destination in a big bank of fog, but their passenger pulls out a revolver and insists that they go with all speed to Bayport to catch a non-existent train! Having a new boat is great, but their first voyage is turning into a dangerous encounter. Now sit back, r...

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48:14

The Hardy Boys in The Secret of the Old Mill,...

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2025/03/25

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. The Hardy boys and their friends are so tired of studying for their exams that they decide to go on a hike through the countryside on Saturday. When they come across the deserted old Turner Mill, they are surprised to see people working there. The mill race is flowing swiftly, and Joe and Frank soon become involved in a rescue mission! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Li...

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45:25

The Hardy Boys in The Secret of the Old Mill,...

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2025/03/10

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Here is the first episode of the exciting adventure that comes to Frank and Joe Hardy in their third book, The Secret of the Old Mill. Almost from the very first minute, the boys seem to be plunged into the thick of a surprising situation. While they are waiting for their father to return to Bayport on the train, they are preyed upon by a dishonest man who trades their good money for a counterfeit five-...

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50:59

An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott, chapters...

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2025/03/03

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. How much Polly has experienced with the Shaw family! From her early visit to the big city where she came to realize that her simple ways could calm and entertain and bring peace to her friends, to the chance she has had to live on her own, teaching music and earning her living, Polly has been an influence of good in people’s lives. But will things ever work out for her and bring her the happiness she so...

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