Summer Reading Club 3: Precious Mysteries

The BC Summer Reading Club week 3 theme is "Precious Mysteries: magic & mysteries." Check out these suggestions for readers ages 0-12!

Updated July 3, 2024
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The Night Gardener
Fan, Terry 
Paper Book
In the spirit of Goodnight Moon and The Curious Garden comes a stunning debut picture book filled with whimsy and creativity from brothers Terry and Eric Fan. One day, William discovers that the tree outside his window has been sculpted into a wise owl. In the...

Picturebook

Pete the cat and the lost tooth
Dean, James, 1957- author, illustrator. 
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author and artist James Dean brings readers along for a fun and surprising adventure with Pete the Cat! In Pete the Cat and the Lost Tooth, the tooth fairy asks Pete for some help. But it's not easy being the tooth fairy for Pete when a tooth goes...

Reader

The monster detector
Potter, Ellen, 1963- author. 
Paper Book
The adventures of Big Foot and Little Foot continue in The Monster Detector, the second book in the series from award-winning author Ellen Potter and illustrator Felicita Sala. Hugo is a young Sasquatch. Boone is a young boy. After an unlikely encounter,...

Primary fiction

Just Harriet
Arnold, Elana K. 
Paper Book
From the award-winning author of A Boy Called Bat comes a new young middle grade series in the tradition of Ramona and Clementine, starring an unforgettable girl named Harriet. There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer: She just finished third...

Primary fiction

The body under the piano
Jocelyn, Marthe 
Paper Book
Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy, Aggie hasn't got much to do since the death of her beloved father... until the fateful day when she crosses paths with twelve-year-old Belgian immigrant Hector Perot and discovers a dead...

Intermediate fiction

City of ghosts
Schwab, Victoria 
Paper Book
From #1 NYT bestselling author Victoria Schwab comes a sweeping, spooky, evocative adventure, perfect for fans of "Stranger Things" and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.A New York Times bestseller!Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't...

Intermediate fiction

Winterhouse
Guterson, Ben 
Paper Book
An Edgar Award Finalist An Agatha Award Finalist An enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut--the first book in a trilogy--set in a magical hotel full of secrets. Orphan Elizabeth Somers's malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous...

Intermediate fiction

The field guide
DiTerlizzi, Tony 
Paper Book
The Grace children discover the faerie world is closer than you think in this repackage of the first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles. After finding a mysterious, handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they've just moved...

Intermediate fiction

Premeditated Myrtle
Bunce, Elizabeth C. 
Paper Book
A 2021 Edgar® Award Winner, Best JuvenileA BookPage Best Book of 2020: Middle GradeA Mighty Girl's 2020 Books of the YearIntroducing Myrtle Hardcastle, your favorite new amateur detective: a wickedly smart twelve-year-old with a keen interest in criminology and a nose for murder in Victorian England...

Intermediate fiction

Mystery on Magnolia Circle
Klise, Kate 
Paper Book
Rear Window meets Nancy Drew in this middle-grade novel by Kate Klise about a girl who believes she has witnessed a crime What happens when two best friends take on the world's worst summer? On the first day of vacation, ten-year-old...

Intermediate fiction

The witch boy
Ostertag, Molly, author, illustrator. 
Paper Book
From the illustrator of the web comic Strong Female Protagonist comes a debut middle-grade graphic novel about family, identity, courage -- and magic.In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross...

Graphic novel

Enola Holmes. Book one the graphic novels
Blasco, Serena, author, illustrator. 
Ebook
A graphic novel adaptation of the hit books that inspired the Netflix film! Sherlock Holmes' brilliant, strong-willed younger sister takes center stage in this delightfully drawn graphic novel based on Nancy Springer's bestselling mystery series. 14-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on...

Graphic novel

Garlic & the vampire
Paulsen, Bree
Paper Book
An enchanting, farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring an unusual heroine who is braver than she realizes, for middle grade readers looking for a cozy, adventuresome read in the vein of Witch Boy or Be Prepared. Garlic feels as though she's always doing something wrong. At...

Graphic novel


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