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2008/09 Block Feeds on KET ED
- Block Feed: Programs 101-116 Program Details
- 4 hours
- Tuesday, August 19 at 6:00 am on KETED
- Tuesday, August 26 at 2:00 am on KETED
- Friday, October 10 at 2:00 am on KETED
- Tuesday, January 20 at 6:00 am on KETED
- Tuesday, January 27 at 2:00 am on KETED
- Tuesday, May 12 at 6:00 am on KETED
- Block Feed: Programs 101-108 Program Details
- 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Tuesday, December 2 at 10:00 am on KETED
- Tuesday, May 5 at 10:00 am on KETED
- Block Feed: Programs 109-116 Program Details
- 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Tuesday, December 2 at 2:00 pm on KETED
- Tuesday, May 5 at 2:00 pm on KETED
Episodes Included in These Block Feeds
- 101. The Wish Giver
- By Bill Brittain. Genre: fantasy; reading level: intermediate. Three characters are profoundly affected by their wishing experiences when their wishes are granted. 15 minutes.
- 102. Summer Birds
- By Penelope Farmer. Genre: fantasy; reading level: difficult. A strange new boy in town teaches the other children how to fly; one boy returns to an island with him at the end of the summer to live the life of a bird. 15 minutes.
- 103. Won't Know Till I Get There
- By Walter Dean Myers. Genre: contemporary realism; reading level: intermediate/difficult. When his parents announce that they are going to adopt a child, 14-year-old Stephen Perry is calm about it until he learns that the child is 13-year-old Earl Goins, who has a record that includes armed robbery. 15 minutes.
- 104. The Agony of Alice
- By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Genre: contemporary realism; reading level: easy/intermediate. While packing her things for her family's move to a new house, 11-year-old Alice McKinley thinks of all the embarrassing incidents in her past. 15 minutes.
- 105. Stone Fox
- By John Reynolds Gardiner. Genre: modern legend; reading level: easy. 10-year-old Willy enters a dogsled race against Stone Fox, an Indian. The money he hopes to win will help save his grandfather's farm. 15 minutes.
- 106. Mama's Going To Buy You a Mockingbird
- By Jean Little. Genre: contemporary realism; reading level: intermediate. Jeremy deals with the death of his father and befriends Tess, an unpopular girl at school. 15 minutes.
- 107. The Ghost Squad Breaks Through/Who Kidnapped the Sheriff?
- E.W. Hildick's The Ghost Squad Breaks Through is a detective story for intermediate reading levels in which ghosts develop a new communication device and plan to use it to foil crimes and solve mysteries. Who Kidnapped the Sheriff? by Larry Callen is a seriocomic collection of self-contained but connected pieces about Patrick O'Leary and Violet Deever and their encounters one summer with the citizens of Tickfaw. Reading level: easy/intermediate. 15 minutes.
- 108. The Castle in the Attic
- By Elizabeth Winthrop. Genre: fantasy; reading level: intermediate. In this tale of castles, knights, tokens, evil spells, and dragons, the characters are all made very small by the power of a magic token. 15 minutes.
- 109. Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job
- By Willo Davis Roberts. Genre: suspense; reading level: intermediate. Sitter Darcy Stevens and the three children she is taking care of are kidnapped and held in a run-down old house. 15 minutes.
- 110. Come Sing Jimmy Jo
- By Katherine Paterson. Genre: contemporary regionalism; reading level: intermediate. Shy 11-year-old James sings every Friday night on a country music television show, but nearly quits singing when his parents record a song written to be sung by James. 15 minutes.
- 111. The Not-Just-Anybody Family
- By Betsy Byars. Genre: eccentricism, contemporary and regional; reading level: easy/intermediate. The Blossom children break into jail to see Pap, their grandfather. The children's mother learns of her family's antics while in Texas, where she has a job in a rodeo, and returns home to take care of things. 15 minutes.
- 112. Tom's Midnight Garden
- By Philippa Pearce. Genre: fantasy; reading level: intermediate. At his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen's old house, Tom discovers a secret garden, which he visits every night. No matter how much time he spends in the garden visiting his playmate Hatty, ordinary clocks measure none of it. 15 minutes.
- 113. Midnight Is a Place
- By Joan Aiken. Genre: Dickensian adventure; reading level: difficult. After a fire kills his guardian and destroys Midnight Court, the run-down old mansion where 13-year-old Lucas is living, he and his friend Anna Marie must fend for themselves in the streets of the dreary city of Blastburn. 15 minutes.
- 114. The Root Cellar
- By Janet Lunn. Genre: time travel; reading level: intermediate. Rose Larkin is sent to live on a farm belonging to her aunt and uncle. One day she enters a root cellar and comes back out to find herself transported back to 1862 and the Civil War. 15 minutes.
- 115. The Whipping Boy
- By Sid Fleishman. Genre: humor; reading level: intermediate. Prince Brat, also known as Prince Horace, is a royal mischief maker who ties the lords' and ladies' wigs to their chairs and hog-greases the knights' saddles. He also refuses to learn to read and write. For his pranks and failures he is punished—via his whipping boy, Jemmy. 15 minutes.
- 116. The Dark Is Rising
- By Susan Cooper. Genre: fantasy; reading level: difficult. 11-year-old Will Stanton is transported to a strange time and place where he is told that because he was born one of the Old Ones, he must devote himself to the conflict between the forces of Light and Dark. His quest is to find and guard the six great Signs of the Light, which will awaken one of the forces to be used against the Dark. 15 minutes.
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