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BC Summer Reading Club 2020

  • That's not hockey
    Author:
    Poulin, Andrée
    Summary:

    The legendary goalie who revolutionized the game of hockey - Young Jacques Plante's way of playing hockey may look different from everyone else's. Instead of a puck, he uses a tennis ball, and his shin pads are made out of potato sacks...
  • The canoe he called Loo Taas
    Author:
    Reid-Stevens, Amanda
    Summary:

    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...
  • The care and feeding of a pet black hole
    Author:
    Cuevas, Michelle
    Summary:

    A girl's friendship with a lonely black hole leads her to face her own sadness in this original, funny, and touching middle grade novel for fans of Crenshaw and Flora & Ulysses. When eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA...
  • The darkest dark
    Author:
    Hadfield, Chris, Fillion, Kate
    Summary:

    Young Chris loves pretending he's a brave astronaut, exploiring the universe. Only one problem--at night, he's afraid of the dark. Only when he watches the moon landing on TV does he realize how exciting the unknown can be. Inspired by...
  • The door at the end of the world
    Author:
    Carlson, Caroline
    Summary:

    Thirteen-year-old Lucy Eberslee, the Gatekeeper's deputy at the end of the world, teams up with Arthur and Rosemary, who are from other worlds, to investigate why the doors between worlds are stuck.
  • The end of the wild
    Author:
    Helget, Nicole Lea
    Summary:

    Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened....
  • The mystery of Black Hollow Lane
    Author:
    Nobel, Julia
    Summary:

    With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit inches. But then she finds a box of mysterious...
  • The owls have come to take us away
    Author:
    Smith, Ronald L.
    Summary:

    After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
  • The ranger
    Author:
    Vo, Nancy
    Summary:

    In this memorable and beautifully illustrated story, a ranger comes across a fox caught in a trap. The ranger frees the fox and promises only to tend to its wounds. The fox recovers and remains curiously close to the ranger, and when...
  • The sockeye mother
    Author:
    Huson, Brett D.
    Summary:

    To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the sockeye salmon is more than just a source of food. Over its life cycle, it nourishes the very land and forests that the Skeena River runs through and where the Gitxsan make...
  • The star shepherd
    Author:
    Connolly, MarcyKate, Haring, Dan
    Summary:

    Neil Gaiman meets How to Train Your Dragon in this beautifully illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy, his trusted dog, and his best friend, as they race to save the stars before their light is extinguished for good. When the world...
  • The stuff of stars
    Author:
    Bauer, Marion Dane
    Summary:

    In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of every child. Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was ......
  • The truth about Martians
    Author:
    Savage, Melissa
    Summary:

    A boy and his best friends set out to discover the aliens who crash-landed next to their Roswell, New Mexico, farm in this charming novel packed with adventure and heart, perfect for fans of Ali Benjamin's The Thing About Jellyfish and...
  • The water walker
    Author:
    Robertson, Joanne
    Summary:

    This is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother (Nokomis) Josephine Mandamin and her great love for Nibi (Water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the planet....
  • We're not from here
    Author:
    Rodkey, Geoff
    Summary:

    Imagine being forced to move to a new planet where YOU are the alien! From the creator of the Tapper Twins, New York Times bestselling author Geoff Rodkey delivers a topical, sci-fi middle-grade novel that proves friendship and laughter...
  • What matters : read-along
    Author:
    Hughes, Alison
    Summary:

    In this picture book, the ripple effect of one child's small action shows how we can all make a big environmental difference. This edition combines both written and spoken words.

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