Guest Podcast Alert! The Fina Mendoza Mysteries

The Ten News, News For Curious Kids

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Education For Kids, Kids & Family, News

4.4 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Check out this episode from our friends at The Fina Mendoza Mysteries! The Fina Mendoza Mysteries podcast is based on the book series by former public radio journalist Kitty Felde. She covered Capitol Hill for nearly a decade, explaining government to grownups. Now, she explains it to kids, through the eyes of a 10-year-old detective. Book one: WELCOME TO WASHINGTON FINA MENDOZA will be available in English and Spanish from Chesapeake Press wherever great books are sold, beginning July 3rd.

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0:00.0	My name is Finna Mendoza.
0:12.0	I moved to Washington, D.C. with my older sister Gabby because Papa works in the U.S. Capitol.
0:18.0	He's a congressman.
0:20.0	Me?
0:21.6	I solve mysteries.
0:24.6	Purs on the conveyor belt.
0:32.6	It's a backpack.
0:35.6	On the conveyor belt. But I have my family pass. My dad is Congressman Arturo Mendoza.
0:41.5	I don't care of your dad is Speaker of the House. All bags go through the X-ray machine.
0:46.8	Yes, ma'am. Okay, step through.
0:51.3	I'm trying to find my sweatshirt. I thought maybe I left it here at the south entrance,
0:56.0	navy blue, St. Phillips patch on the front. Oh, sorry. My bracelets. In the plastic tub.
1:08.1	Oops, forgot one.
1:15.0	Have you seen it? It's a hoodie, and it's got a hole in the elbow?
1:16.1	Nope.
1:17.6	Are you sure?
1:19.7	Do I look like I'm lying?
1:22.9	No, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. I'll just go.
1:24.7	No running.
1:37.3	Sweatshirt, sweatshirt, not on the bench, not under the bench. Not under the fake Magna Carta. Not under the National Mall.
1:42.3	Well, maybe it's under the National Mall, but it's not under the table model of the National Mall.
1:48.7	Stop staring at me, Caesar Rodney.
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