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Castlegar & District Public Library August 2024 |
 Summer Reading Club 2024 |
Drop-In Summer Reading Club
If you are not registered in one of our weekly sessions, we have a drop-in session on Friday afternoons. Please note: room will be capped at 20 children. Children must be potty-trained. The dates for the 1-2 PM drop-in group are August 2, 9, and 16 Also if you're not registered, you can still join in the reading fun with a reading record you can take home! Ask at the front desk. |
Explore your neighborhood, solve problems around the house, and see the world from a thermal perspective with the FLIR ONE. The library currently has two Flir One Thermal Imaging Cameras: one for Apple iPhone users and one for Android users. |
Access a province-wide catalogue of digital books, audiobooks, and instantly available magazines! You can access through Library To Go or through the Libby app. Use your library card to log in! |
Read stories, play games,and learn with TumbleBooks! The TumbleBook Library is a searchable, customizable library of e-books for kids. |
Yoto is a screen-free audio platform that lets kids explore 1000+ stories, music, activities, sound effects, radio, podcasts and more. Thank you to the Friends of the Library and the Canadian Parents for French - Castlegar for donating our English and French Yoto Players! |
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A calamity of souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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The friendship club : a novel
by Robyn Carr
After a series of terrible dates, Marni McGuire, the host of a popular TV cooking show, forms an unbreakable bond with her best friend Ellen as well as a young intern on the show and her pregnant daughter Bella as they navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of life.
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House of flame and shadow
by Sarah J. Maas
Stranded in a strange new world, Bryce Quinlan must rely on all her wits to get back to her family and friends in Midgard, in the third novel of the series following House of Sky and Breath.
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The Metropolitan affair
by Jocelyn Green
"With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"
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Phonics from A to Z : a practical guide
by Wiley Blevins
"Leading phonics expert Wiley Blevins has updated his best-selling classic to include the latest in phonics instruction and the science of reading, as well as current research on handwriting and on phonemic awareness. This revised edition also offers ideas for maximizing your scope and sequence, practical tips for creating sound walls, a decodable text routine for building comprehension, strategies for differentiating during whole-group lessons while better targeting small-group work, and more."
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The hunger habit : why we eat when we're not hungry and how to stop
by Judson Brewer
An internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist offers a proven step-by-step program, grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience, that will help us understand what's going on in our brains so we can heal the guilt and frustration we experience around eating—and heal our relationship with food and our bodies.
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Interviewology : the new science of interviewing
by Anna Papalia
"A guide to mastering the job interview, offering proven advice and techniques to discover your unique interview style that is key to interviewing better--for those on either side of the table"
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Adulting 101 : life skills all teens should know
by Hannah Beilenson
"A teenager's guide to all the skills you never learned in school. From low-stress laundry and kitchen hacks, to navigating health insurance and healthy friendships, this book is full of tips to help you face a crazy world head-on"
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Hollow fires
by Samira Ahmed
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school
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The Hunters Guild : Red Hood. 2, Hot-blooded debonair
by Yuki Kawaguchi
"Hoping to join the Hunters Guild, Velou boards the mobile training facility known as the Ironworks. But things aren't all sunshine and rainbows. After three grueling months of nonstop training, he and the other examinees are about to face the most difficult trial of all--the debarkation exam! This time it's a game of cops and robbers, and the ones playing the role of the cops are none other than Grimm and Debonair, leaving the trainees no choice but to run for their lives as the robbers! Velou seems to have a plan up his sleeve, but will the other examinees be willing to trust him?"
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Hungry ghost
by Victoria Ying
After the sudden death of her father, 16-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help.
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Silas Marner
After being run out of town and losing his treasure, one day Silas Marner finds a baby in his home and decides to raise her despite another man's claim to the girl
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