Below Grade Level

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we finish reading The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon! Frank and Joe have finally realized that the counterfeiting is happening in the goddamn old mill from the book title, and decide to do something about it! John Walker, the closer, joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah to finish this adventure!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon! We pump the brakes on the counterfeiting story to hear all about some expensive rug that Mrs. Hardy absolutely hates! Jo Marshall and Brian Wade join Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah to continue this adventure!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon! The counterfeiting just doesn't end, even after the Hardy Boys catch Paul Blum in a boat A SECOND TIME. Then, we hear the tragic story of Lester, the abused precious boy! Kata Kane joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah to continue this adventure!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon! Now that the book has reverted to the original printing, it's also a lot longer, so strap in. Paul Blum makes a daring escape from jail after the best chapter imaginable in which a cop is made a fool! Nobody joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah to continue this adventure!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon! As if sent through a time vortex, the book edition suddenly jumps back in time to the original 1927 version! The girls are gone! The boys have multiplied! The language is GREAT and not outdated! Is there even still a counterfeit money ring?! Jimmy Reed joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah to continue this adventure!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon! Frank and Joe spend a lot of time talking about a Belgian bike pedal and then go on a group date. Get ready, this book about to get turned upside down! John Nagle joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah to continue this adventure!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we begin reading The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon! Meet Frank and Joe Hardy, named after the guys from Basement Yard. They're boy detectives! Frank and Joe hang out with their cool friend Chet and start investigating a counterfeit money ring! Matt Bacher joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah to begin this adventure!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we finish reading The Babysitters Club: Boy Crazy Stacy by Ann M. Martin! Stacy is over Scott, but she can't shake the boy crazies just yet, as she finds a more age appropriate love interest! John Walker joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah to close this installment!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading The Babysitters Club: Boy Crazy Stacy by Ann M. Martin! We get a classic meanwhile of Kristy dealing with a bleeding dog and a fucked up car wash. Then, Stacy and Mary-Anne head to the boardwalk and make a horrible discovery!. Angela Montgomery joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah in this nonsense!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading The Babysitters Club: Boy Crazy Stacy by Ann M. Martin! Mary-Anne gets a sunburn, the kids play mini golf, and a shark attacks in this NAIL-BITING EPISODE!. Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah go at this alone!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading The Babysitters Club: Boy Crazy Stacy by Ann M. Martin! Stacy goes full-on boy crazy when she meets Scott, the super hot lifeguard who is way, WAY too old for her. Stacy, please make better choices!. Jamie Noguchi joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah in another thrilling installment!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we begin reading The Babysitters Club: Boy Crazy Stacy by Ann M. Martin! Stacy and Mary-Anne are off to Sea City on the Jersey Shore to babysit EIGHT CHILDREN for 2 weeks, holy crap. Kelly Fuller joins Jonathan, Chris, and Bekah in another thrilling installment!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we finish reading Chain Letter by Christopher Pike! After Neil is revealed to be the Caretaker, it's up to Allison and Tony to save the day. But why? Why did any of this happen? And will all these children get away with literal murder? John Walker joins Jonathan, Bekah, and Chris in this exciting conclusion!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Chain Letter by Christopher Pike! We get into the endgame with the Chain Gang! After Kipp's disappearance, Branda and Joanne get their next assignments, before some crazy shit happens with Neil! Then, Allison rents Emmanuelle to watch with her gal pals! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Chain Letter by Christopher Pike! Things start heating up for The Chain Gang! Allison and Fran have a fractious conversation, and then The Chain Gang meets on a playground to figure out what to do next! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Annamarie Damron!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Chain Letter by Christopher Pike! The Chain Gang continues through their list of tortuous tasks. Neil and Joan have to humiliate themselves first, but it's Tony and Allison who really have to deal with embarrassing shit. Also, drive through dairies! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Jimmy Reed!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Chain Letter by Christopher Pike! The Chain Gang starts completing their tasks to keep the Caretaker at bay, and Tony and Allison go on a really weird date! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Huey Hesson!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Chain Letter by Christopher Pike! It's a flashback episode, where we find out what happened to Allison and her friends that fateful summer night after they saw the Beach Boys! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Jo Marshall!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we begin reading Chain Letter by Christopher Pike! Have you seen I Know What You Did Last Summer? Great! You'll have no problem with Chain Letter. Come meet all 7 main characters and read the titular letter with us! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Jo Marshall!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we finish reading Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine! Carly Beth, now with the titular mask stuck to her face, must find a way to get it off before it's too late. Plus, we watch the very first episode of the 1995 Goosebumps show that adapted this book, and we talk about it! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest John Walker!

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!

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!

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!

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!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we finish reading Nancy Drew: The Crooked Banister by Carolyn Keene! After discovering a bunch of poison and money in the house, Nancy and her dad go on an adventure in a helicopter to track down EVEN MORE CLUES. Do you know who did it?! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest John Walker!

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!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Nancy Drew: The Crooked Banister by Carolyn Keene! Rawley's brother shows up while an electrician repairs the broken robot. Then, Nancy's friends all show up and the 6 teenagers go back to the very dangerous house! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Alex Hayes!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we finish reading Fearless by Francine Pascal! After the nazi fight in the park, everyone has to recover, and some really awkward hospital flirting is involved. Plus, the identity of Marco's mysterious redhead is revealed! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest John Walker!

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!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Fearless by Francine Pascal! Heather has been either shot or stabbed! We don't really know! But Gaia, ever the most awkward human on the planet, finds a way to make everyone really uncomfortable about it. Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Jo Marshall!

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!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Fearless by Francine Pascal! We fine out Gaia's horrible shameful secret: she's a virgin loser. But can she drive? She can drive her foot into nazi faces! YEAH PUNCH NAZIS! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton with special guest Zack Fowler!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike! Tracie has a huge crush on Cal, who has a huge crush on Cessy, who probably has a huge crush on her brother Davey, who has a huge crush on himself. Also, there's a scavenger hunt in this book! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton, and our guest on this episode is Bob Rose!

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 this episode is Clint McElroy!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we finish reading Phantom Valley: The Evil One by Lynn Beach! Kim tries to help Monica deal with her ghost problem (which is actually a doll problem) but a rift forms between the 2 friends! Will Monica repair her friendship with Kim? Will she defeat the evil doll?! FIND OUT! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton, and our guest on this episode is John Walker!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Phantom Valley: The Evil One by Lynn Beach! Monica spends a lot of time in the library doing research, seeing ghosts, and figuring out that her haunted doll is totally haunted. Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton, and our guest on this episode is Kelly Fuller!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we continue reading Phantom Valley: The Evil One by Lynn Beach! Monica starts to wonder whether the creepy doll with glowing red eyes that she found hidden in the back of her closet in the haunted wing of the boarding school might be cursed!? Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton, and our guest on this episode is Annamarie Damron!

Welcome back to Below Grade Level! On this episode, we start reading Phantom Valley: The Evil One by Lynn Beach! Monica arrives at Chilleen Academy and quickly makes new friends, finds a definitely haunted doll, and fulfills Jonathan's lifelong wish of meeting a ghost! Below Grade Level is hosted by Jonathan Eaton, Chris Zaleski, and Bekah Eaton, and our guest on this episode is Jordan Lincoln!