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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

58:46

The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums, chapters 6, 7, 8,...

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2026/03/12

Send a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Chet and Biff are missing! Can they have perished in the huge storm? Of course, Frank and Joe want to go out on their motorboat, the Sleuth, to try to find some evidence of their missing friends, but when their cantankerous old great-aunt Gertrude comes to visit, those plans might need to be put aside, as Aunt Gertrude highly disapproves of “little boys going out on boats.” How can the Hardy boys just sit ...

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60:36

The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums, chapters 1, 2, 3,...

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2026/03/02

Send a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Here is the first episode in the FOURTH Hardy Boys’ book: The Missing Chums. When Chet Morton and Biff Hooper decide to take Biff’s father’s new motorboat on a trip up the Atlantic coast, the only thing that would make it better would be if Frank and Joe Hardy could join them. But they can’t. They have to stay at home in Bayport while their father is away on an important detective case. There are some stra...

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52:32

Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 21,...

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Oh, the scrapes Nancy Drew gets herself in! At the beginning of this episode, we find her gagged, and bound hand and foot as a captive of three scoundrels: Tom Tozzle, Bud Mason, and the particularly mean Mary Mason, who seems to have a personal antipathy toward Nancy. How can she ever extricate herself from their clutches? Here is the final, exciting segment of Nancy Drew in The Mystery at Lilac Inn!&n...

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47:04

Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 5 to 8

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Poor Laura Pendleton! Her new guardian seems like a terrible person. He’s not very kind to her, and poor Laura has to be uprooted from everything that’s comfortable and go live in the unknown bungalow on Melrose Lake. In the meantime, Nancy and Helen are at the camp and it is with great reluctance that Nancy turns toward home. She can’t stay at the camp all the time. Her vacation is over, and now it’s t...

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51:03

Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 13 to 16

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Brave Nancy Drew has a plan to help Laura Pendleton. She tried to confront Jacob Aborn, Laura’s cruel guardian, but she didn’t learn much from him. Nancy still feels there is something she could do. So, with her detective instincts on high alert, she decides to stealthily investigate Jacob Aborn’s bungalow, and while she’s in the vicinity, she wants to do a bit of sleuthing in that old abandoned bungalow do...

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46:00

Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 17 to 21

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. In her attempt to rescue the REAL Jacob Aborn from the dungeon where he has been held captive, Nancy Drew has fallen into the clutches of the notorious Stumpy Dowd! One of her father’s friends told her how a person could free oneself after being tied up. Can she remember how to do it? In the meantime, Laura Pendleton is becoming worried about Nancy. When Carson Drew returns from his trip and finds Laura...

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53:45

Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 16,...

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. If Nancy Drew is anything, she is a good friend to those in need. Emily Crandall certainly needs a good friend to help restore her inheritance and, if possible, clear her guardian, Mrs. Willoughby, from suspicion of the jewel theft. Nancy is doing all she can, even following the tiniest whiff of a clue no matter where it leads. But is Nancy brave, or is she foolhardy when she sneaks into the dilapidated...

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53:08

Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 11,...

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Do you remember the sullen and rather rude girl who applied to become the housekeeper for the Drew family? Well, Mary Mason is back in the story! How could this rather shabbily dressed young woman have found enough money to purchase expensive dresses and other clothing items? Nancy has a faint suspicion that there may be some connection between Mary’s extravagant spending and the robbery at Lilac Inn. N...

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50:45

Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 1, 2,...

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Please enjoy Nancy’s story as she anticipates a glimpse of the famous Crandall jewels. Looking forward to this thrilling opportunity helps her endure the stress of interviewing many candidates for the position of housekeeper for the Drew household while faithful Hannah Gruen has gone to help her ailing sister. Now, sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Listening to audiobooks really do...

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46:24

Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 1 to 4

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. In 1930, the first three books in the Nancy Drew series were published at the same time in order to introduce the world to this brilliant young detective. The Bungalow Mystery is the third of Nancy’s adventures. In this episode, we find Nancy Drew and her chum, Helen Corning, who also appeared in the previous adventures, spending time at a camp on the shores of Moon Lake. Another girl, the brave but dejected ...

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51:03

Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 22 to 25

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. What a wonderful surprise! Nancy Drew discovered that the car she flagged down on the lake road contained her father and Laura Pendleton! Now the three of them can put their skills together to try to stop dastardly Stumpy Dowd before he can cross the state line and escape with Laura’s entire fortune! In her blue roadster, Nancy embarks on a high-speed chase! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this...

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55:24

Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 6, 7,...

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Somehow, Nancy Drew just can’t seem to avoid becoming involved in a thrilling mystery. With the puzzling disappearance of the Crandall jewels on her mind, Nancy is determined to help her friend regain her inheritance. But unlike other mysteries, this situation seems to have sprouted into an overabundance of clues, any one of which could lead to some sort of resolution. Finally, in an attempt to give her...

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36:52

Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 9 to 12

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2026/01/05

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Nancy Drew really owes a large debt of gratitude to Laura Pendleton, who saved her life out on Moon Lake. So, she is happy to do something to help the girl escape from her cruel guardian. Nancy decides to visit Jacob Aborn and see if she can figure out some way to help Laura. Nancy’s resourceful bravery comes in handy as she makes her daring plans! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to l...

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41:53

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 5, 6, 7,...

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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 Drew can’t seem to help attracting mysterious adventures. When she visits her old friend Abigail Rowen, she learns about a haunted mansion and promises to help the two maiden ladies who live there to figure out what is causing the strange happenings at their home. With permission from her father, Nancy plans to spend about a week with the old ladies trying to figure out if it is something supernat...

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54:51

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 17, 18,...

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2026/01/01

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Because Nancy Drew is so certain that Nathan Gombit must somehow be involved in the mysterious hauntings at the Turnbull Mansion, she decides she will go to his house to see if she can find a clue that will verify her theory. What she finds is something amazing and even terrifying! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and...

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43:01

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 13, 14,...

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2026/01/01

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Because Nancy Drew is so certain that Nathan Gombit must somehow be involved in the mysterious hauntings at the Turnbull Mansion, she decides she will go to his house to see if she can find a clue that will verify her theory. What she finds is something amazing and even terrifying! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and...

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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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46:05

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 22,...

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2026/01/01

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. What was written in the little notebook Nancy found hidden in the old Crowley clock? If she hadn’t been reading very carefully, she may have missed the brief comment about where to find the real will. Josiah Crowley certainly made it difficult for the Tophams to find and destroy his second will. That is good, but it almost made it impossible for the real will to come to light. What a surprise it was for...

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40:08

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 1, 2, 3,...

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2026/01/01

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Here is the first part of Nancy Drew’s second mysterious adventure, The Hidden Staircase! When this book was originally published in 1930 it had 25 chapters and included a lot of interesting description and plot details that were later deleted or changed. I prefer the original words, so that is what I’ve recorded for you here. Nancy Drew recalls with fondness the excitement she had while she was solving...

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