Nuptse and Lhotse are back for another marvellous adventure! Welcome to the Canadian Rockies, a place where bears prowl around valleys and glacier blue lakes. When Mrs. Jasper, a very large grizzly bear, loses her twin cubs Yoho and...
BC Summer Reading Club 2019
These collections of summer reading club titles are an excellent source of reading material for young readers.
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Author:Asnong, JoceySummary: - Author:Roberts, Dr. JillianSummary:
On the Playground: Our First Talk About Prejudice focuses on introducing children to the complex topic of prejudice. Crafted around a narrative between a grade-school-aged child and an adult, this inquiry-focused book will help children...
- Author:Budd, Robert, Vickers, Roy HenrySummary:
The children of the Tsimshian village of Kitkatla love to play at being hunters, eager for their turn to join the grown-ups. But when they capture and mistreat a crow, the Chief of the Heavens, angered at their disrespect, brings down a...
- Author:Rubenstein, Dan, Dyson, NancySummary:
This young reader novel about the Underground Railroad begins when Rebecca, a twelve-year-old slave in South Carolina, hears that Grower Brown plans to sell her father to another grower. Unwilling to accept the idea of slavery any...
- Author:Stone, TiffanySummary:
Humorous poems for children about colourful clothing, shoes, and even hair.
- Author:Oppenheim, Shulamith LeveySummary:
One day, a boy named Theo is called into the living room by his parents to meet "the most famous man alive." When Theo and Professor Einstein go out for a sail on Theo's small boat, the Professor unexpectedly loses his compass overboard...
- Author:Armstrong, LuanneSummary:
Sand is the story of a young girl, Willy Cameron, her horse named Sand, and her involvement with therapeutic riding. The novel begins when Willy is involved in a serious car accident and is paralyzed from the waist down. After the...
- Author:Watts, Irene N.Summary:
Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. With the outbreak of World War II...
- Author:Heidbreder, RobertSummary:
Kids still not up? Still sound asleep? Snoozing rug-bugs in a heap. Time to do whatever it takes. Read aloud from SHAKE-AWAKES! Slimy, stinky, stuffed with dread- these poems will scare kids out of bed! But, hey, kids, there are poems...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
When Shu-Li's school is threatened with closure, she and her friends find unexpected help from a magic pear tree in the back yard of an intriguing neighbour.
- Author:Bouchard, David, Everson, Andy, Youngblood, MarySummary:
Corbeau est le faiseur de tours. Corbeau est le créateur. Corbeau est le transformateur. Corbeau peut être tout et partout. Mais n'oublions jamais que Corbeau est aussi... le marieur.Cette nuit-là, alors que grand-père Soleil se...
- Author:Gear, AlisonSummary:
Taan's moons is an art-based picture book developed by Alison Gear, Kiki van der Heiden, and the student artists of Haida Gwaii. In Haida language taan refers to the bear, and the Haida people have a unique way of recording time...
- Author:Harper, Charise MericleSummary:
Sometimes school can be scary and even embarrassing, but not today. Today is Birdie's birthday, and everything will be perfect! Birdie's panda-riffic cupcakes are beautiful, and there's one for everyone. She will be the star of the...
- Author:Reid-Stevens, AmandaSummary:
The Canoe He Called Loo Taas celebrates the true story of a 50-foot, community-carved canoe made from a single cedar tree, which was designed and carved by Amanda Steven's late father, Bill Reid. Loo Taas, pronounced, loo toss, are the...
- Author:Alderson, Sue AnnSummary:
Introduces children to the urgent concerns of saving the earth, by starting with a child's eye view of one cherished part of it. Musical poems convey not only the sights and sounds of a nature preserve, but its textures and seasons, its...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
"A young girl becomes lost in the woods after wandering too far away from her mother. Scared because she is lost, she encounters a large wolf who reminds her of her own ability to survive and find her mother again."
- Author:Hughes, ViSummary:
When the dogs in town lose their barks, Mike and Annie set out to solve the mystery. With the scary secrets and clues they uncover from the past, can they stop the deadly curse of the graveyard hounds?
- Author:Hrdlitschka, Shelley, Schidlo, Rae, Sharp, LindaSummary:
Coola and Grinder are two adult grizzly bears living at the "peak of Vancouver" on Grouse Mountain. For the past eighteen years they have been among the mountain's biggest attractions. People from all over the world flock to see these...
- Author:Van Camp, Richard, Gray Smith, Monique, Gear, AlisonSummary:
From award-winning authors Richard Van Camp and Monique Gray Smith come two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a 'flip-book' format, which offers...
- Author:Starr, DavidSummary:
This novel for young readers or young adults is about Duncan Scott, who is also the protagonist in David Starr's earlier novel, The Nor'Wester. In this new novel, set in 1810, Duncan returns to England to search for his sister, and...
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