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 … Continue reading Chapter 122 | Nancy Drew | The Crooked Banister | Chapters 10-...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 121 | Nancy Drew |...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 120 | Nancy Drew | The Crooked Banister &#124...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 119 | Animorphs: Megamo...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 117...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 115 | Animorphs: Megamorp...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 114 | Animorphs: Megamorphs |...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 113 | Fearless...

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, … Continue reading Chapter 111 | Fearless | Part 4

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 … Continue reading Chapter 110 | Fearless | Part 3

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 … Continue reading Chapter 109 | Fearless | Part...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 108 | Fearless | Part 1

On this episode of The Sketchy Show, the Scareusburg Evening News lets us know the spooky goings-on in town, 3 judges of a jack-o-lantern carving contest grapple with the meaning of existence, and Dick Albequerque visits a quaint town where there may or may not have been some brutal murders and navigates a hotel’s alcohol … Continue reading Episode 46: Dick Albequerque Hunts a Werewolf

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 … Continue reading Chapter 107 | Scavenger Hunt | C...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 106 | Scavenger Hunt &#124...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 105 | Scavenger Hun...

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, … Continue reading Chapter 104 | S...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 103 | Scavenger Hunt | Chapters 2-3

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 … Continue reading Chapter 102 | Scavenger Hunt | Prologue – Chapter 1

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 … Continue reading Chapter 101 | Phantom Valley | The Evil One | Chapters...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 100 | Phantom Valley | The Evil One...

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 … Continue reading Chapter 99 | Phantom Valley | The Evil One | Chapters...