Summer Reading Club 2: Depths of the Earth

The BC Summer Reading Club week 2 theme is "Depths of the Earth: rocks, volcanoes, and deep time." Check out these suggestions for readers ages 0-12!

Updated July 3, 2024
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A stone is a story
Barnard Booth, Leslie 
Paper Book
Follow a stone's journey through time as it faces ice, water, wind, and scorching heat in this beautiful nonfiction picture book that is Seeds Move! meets A Stone Sat Still. "Where do rocks come from?" The answer may be more incredible than you...

picturebook

Rocks and minerals : geology from caverns to the cosmos
Hirsch, Andy
Paper Book
Leave no stone unturned with Andy Hirsch's Science Comics: Rocks and Minerals, the latest volume in First Second's action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers! In this volume, join a crystal-crazy fanboy and a famous rock hunter on a...

Graphic novel

I survived the eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980
Tarshis, Lauren 
Paper Book
The mountain exploded with the power of ten million tons of dynamite...Eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe has grown up with the beautiful Mount St. Helens always in the background. She's hiked its winding trails, dived into its cold lakes, and fished for trout in its streams. Just looking at Mount St....

Intermediate fiction

I survived the destruction of Pompeii, AD 79
Tarshis, Lauren 
Paper Book
The beast beneath the mountain is restless...No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep.But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is...

Intermediate fiction


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