Stories Come to Life
Episodes
190 episodes
Cress Delahanty, by Jessamyn West, chapters 1 and 2
Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. This is the first episode of Cress Delahanty, a book I loved when I read it first years and years ago. The author, Jessamyn West, was born in 1902. She m...
The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums, chapters 21, 22, and 23
Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Poor Chet and Biff are STILL on the island! But they trust that the Hardy boys will send help to rescue them. What is confusing, is the sound of another motorboat...
The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums, chapters 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20
Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Frank and Joe are able to sneak quietly back into the deep dark of the back cavern where their friends, Chet and Biff, are being held captive. Not only are they r...
The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums, chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15
Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Frank and Joe have an idea that their missing chums, Chet Morton and Biff Hooper, may have gone out to Blacksnake Island and run into trouble, so they head out to...
The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums, chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
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 e...
The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
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 tr...
Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12
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...
Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25
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 To...
Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20
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, c...
Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15
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 r...
Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
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 i...
Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
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 o...
Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 22 to 25
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 ca...
Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 17 to 21
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 Dow...
Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 13 to 16
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 ...
Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 9 to 12
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...
Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 5 to 8
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 li...
Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery, Chapters 1 to 4
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 My...
Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 22, 23, 24, and 25
Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. While Nancy Drew was sleeping after her trying ordeal at night in the hidden staircase and subterranean passage, Nathan Gombit visited the Turnbull sisters and co...
Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21
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 h...
Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16
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 h...
Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8
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 h...
Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4
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 incl...
Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 22, 23, 24, and 25
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 comm...
Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21
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? A...