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PODCAST

Below Grade Level

Jon, Chris, and Bekah

Welcome to Below Grade Level, where we read our favorite books from childhood and unnecessarily critique them and make them horrible. Everything from Goosebumps to Babysitter"s Club, no book is safe from Below Grade Level.

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1:08:32

Chapter 127 | Goosebumps | The Haunted Mask |...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/10/03

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine! Carly Beth continues her Halloween night rampage, scaring everyone she can with her mask, before she makes an awful and predictable discovery about the cursed thing she bought! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Clint McElroy!

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1:09:50

Chapter 126 | Goosebumps | The Haunted Mask |...

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2025/09/26

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine! After her mental break, Carly Beth goes in search of a Halloween mask so scary she can kill her friends. Also, dummy talk! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest John Nagle!

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1:23:55

Chapter 125 | Goosebumps | The Haunted Mask |...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/09/19

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine! After getting pranked one too many times by her "friends", Carly Beth goes off in search of a Halloween mask so scary she can kill people with it! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Mike Riley!

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1:08:09

Chapter 124 | Goosebumps | The Haunted Mask |...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/09/12

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we begin reading Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine! Meet Carly Beth, your average middle schooler who's absolutely terrified of everything and all of her "friends" prank her constantly because of it. Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Kata Kane!

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1:52:25

Chapter 122 | Nancy Drew | The Crooked Banister |...

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2025/08/29

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Nancy Drew: The Crooked Banister by Carolyn Keene! Nancy and Ned go off in search of Bess and Dave, then they're off on an adventure to try and figure out when a piece of wood was sawed. No, really! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton!

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1:54:14

Chapter 120 | Nancy Drew | The Crooked Banister |...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/08/15

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we begin reading Nancy Drew: The Crooked Banister by Carolyn Keene! Nancy and her Dad head off to Mountainville to take on the case of, you guessed it, the Crooked Banister! Some dude named Rawley has been swindling couples out to money, built himself a weird house and a robot, and is missing! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Kelly Fuller!

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2:13:56

Chapter 119 | Animorphs: Megamorphs | The Adalite’s...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/06/13

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Animorphs: Megamorphs: The Andalite's Gift by K.A. Applegate! Visser Three faced off against some of our captured animorphs on his blade ship! Then, the gang stages a daring attack at sea! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest John Walker!

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1:12:07

Chapter 118 | Animorphs: Megamorphs | The Adalite’s...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/06/06

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Animorphs: Megamorphs: The Andalite's Gift by K.A. Applegate! While Monkey Marco and Tiger Jake race around in a pickup truck, Squirrel Cassie and Elephant Rachel catch up! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton!

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1:23:05

Chapter 117 | Animorphs: Megamorphs | The Adalite’s...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/05/30

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Animorphs: Megamorphs: The Andalite's Gift by K.A. Applegate! Cassie tails Chapman as a fly while Rachel breaks into someone's house to sleep off her horrific injuries. Then, Jake and Marco steal Cassie's dad's truck and some trashcans get run over! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Clare Lincoln!

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1:44:30

Chapter 116 | Animorphs: Megamorphs | The Adalite’s...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/05/23

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Animorphs: Megamorphs: The Andalite's Gift by K.A. Applegate! Rachel, with amnesia, turns into a bear and fights a dust blade tornado, with gruesome results! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Clint McElroy!

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2:05:38

Chapter 115 | Animorphs: Megamorphs | The Adalite’s...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/05/16

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Animorphs: Megamorphs: The Andalite's Gift by K.A. Applegate! Rachel wanders into a crazy clothing store shack in the woods while Marco and Ax try to outrun the blade tornado! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Kata Kane!

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2:03:27

Chapter 114 | Animorphs: Megamorphs | The Adalite’s...

Below Grade Level ·

2025/05/09

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we begin reading Animorphs: Megamorphs: The Andalite's Gift by K.A. Applegate! Those Animorphs are at it again! While Rachel lies to everyone about where she is, the rest of the gang head to a pool party for some teenage shenanigans. Hawk Rachel runs into some trouble in the woods right as a blade tornado attacks the pool party! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest John Nagle!

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1:45:14

Chapter 112 | Fearless | Part 5

Below Grade Level ·

2025/04/25

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Fearless by Francine Pascal! Gaia cuts school to deliver a sandwich, Sam's tragic backstory of being an ugly little boy is revealed, and a big ol' nazi fight happens! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton!

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1:37:09

Chapter 110 | Fearless | Part 3

Below Grade Level ·

2025/04/11

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Fearless by Francine Pascal! Gaia proves to be the world's most awkward teenager, being a weirdo at a house party and playing a game of chess in a downpour. But now she has a crush on a boy! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Huey Hesson!

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1:35:08

Chapter 108 | Fearless | Part 1

Below Grade Level ·

2025/03/28

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we begin reading Fearless by Francine Pascal! Gaia is just a normal late 90's teenager starting out at brand new school. Oh wait, no she's not. She can't feel fear and enacts vigilante justice on neo nazis! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Annamarie Damron!

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2:27:12

Chapter 107 | Scavenger Hunt | Chapters 12-END!

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2024/12/27

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we finish reading Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike! The whole thing comes down to a weird semi-religious showdown in a church, and in typical Pike fashion, an epilogue that actually explains the whole book. Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest John Walker!

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1:41:48

Chapter 106 | Scavenger Hunt | Chapters 10-11

Below Grade Level ·

2024/12/20

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike! Tracie's team finally meets up with Carl's team for the Scavenger Hunt Showdown in the haunted (?) mine! A major theory is confirmed, much to the chagrin of our hosts! Literally nobody could guess what this book was really about but the clues have been there the whole time. Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest John Walker!

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2:04:05

Chapter 105 | Scavenger Hunt | Chapters 7-9

Below Grade Level ·

2024/12/13

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike! Things go from weird to super bonkers in several chapters. Are they lizard people? Dinosaurs? Eternal zombie vampires? At this point, the bad guys could literally be aliens, we don't know. Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton!

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2:06:20

Chapter 104 | Scavenger Hunt | Chapters 4-6

Below Grade Level ·

2024/12/06

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike! In typical Christopher Pike fashion, this book goes heavily off the rails. Movie references abound in this sibling kissing, lizard stomping, water drenching good time. Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton, and our guest on this episode is John Nagle!

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1:40:46

Chapter 102 | Scavenger Hunt | Prologue – Chapter 1

Below Grade Level ·

2024/11/22

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we begin reading Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike! Cal is your typical handy high schooler who works at a gas station. Is he in a ton of trouble with vampires or a murder cult? Is he responsible for his friend Joe's death by dam? Will we always read about naked girls in bodies of water in a Christopher Pike book? Find out on this thrilling episode! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton, and our guest on

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