July 11, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, librarian Mary Alice Sell reviews three young adult novels: I Hate to Talk About Your Mother by Hettie Jones; Valley of the Broken Cherry Trees by Lensey Namioka; and Tangled Butterfly by Marion Dane Bauer, a Minnesotan.
July 16, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Karen Nelson Hoyle, assistant professor and curator of the Children's Literature Research Collections, reviews A Companion to World Mythology by Richard W. Barber.
July 18, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Eoin McKiernan, president of the Irish American Cultural Institute at St. Thomas University, reviews Home Before Night by Hugh Leonard.
July 23, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Edward Berryman, organist and director of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church of Minneapolis, reviews A New History of the Organ from the Greeks to the Present Day by Peter F. Williams.
July 30, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, David Robinson reviews Fly Away Home by Mary Hedin.
August 6, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Paul Gruchow comments on The World of Oz: An Inside Report on Big-Time Journalism by Osborn Elliott.
August 8, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Majorie Dorne, associate professor of English at Winona State, reviews Deliberate Regression by Robert Harbison.
August 20, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Leonard Neal, American literature educator at Worthington Community College, reviews Show Me a Hero by Patrick Alexander.
August 22, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Andrea Halgrimson, ethnic cooking instructor in Fargo-Moorhead, reviews Food with the Famous by Jane Grigson.
August 27, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, a review of The Reserve Mining Controversy: Science, Technology, and Environmental Quality by Robert V. Bartlett. [?]