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NEW! Young Reader Book Club
May 20 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
You asked – we answered: we’re starting an all-new young reader book club!
We’re going to kick off the May/June/July meetings with a wonderful series by New York Times bestselling authors Mary Alice Monroe and Angela May: The Islanders, with a target age range of 8-11. As with all our clubs, book club selections are always 10% off the list price:
Book one, The Islanders, will take place May 20th. On Monday, June 17th, we’ll discuss the second book in the series, The Islanders: Search for Treasure.
And on July 15th, we’ll talk about the third all-new book, coming out June 18th, The Islanders: Shipwrecked. We’ll be having a BIG book signing in partnership with the Timrod Library on the square for this on Saturday,
Info about the first book is below – ALL are welcome and admission is free. We’ll provide the treats! If you want to reserve a spot in advance, email us at [email protected] and we’ll put your name on the list. (Reserving in advance helps us know how much food to order in). You can visit our Upcoming Events page for more on the next two selections!
Moderating the book club will be Miss Abby! Local teacher Abby Schmid is an Oklahoma native who moved to Summerville in 2021.
Abby grew up loving to read and that same love of stories has followed her through all phases of life. She is currently an Elementary teacher in Dorchester District 2.
We all look forward to seeing you on Main Street!
From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes a beautiful story of friendship, loss, and the healing power of nature in her first book for middle grade readers.
Eleven-year-old Jake’s life has just turned upside-down. His father was wounded in Afghanistan, and his mother is going to leave to care for him. That means Jake’s spending the summer on tiny Dewees Island with his grandmother.
The island is a nature sanctuary–no cars or paved roads, no stores or restaurants. To make matters worse, Jake’s grandmother doesn’t believe in cable or the internet, which means Jake has no cell phone, no video games…and no friends.
This is going to be the worst summer ever!
He’s barely on the island before he befriends two other kids–Macon, another “summer kid,” and Lovie, a know-it-all who lives there and shows both Jake and Macon the ropes of life on the island. All three are struggling with their own family issues and they quickly bond, going on adventures all over Dewees Island.
Until one misadventure on an abandoned boat leads to community service. Their punishment? Mandatory duty on the Island Turtle Team. The kids must do a daily dawn patrol of the beach on the hunt for loggerhead sea turtle tracks.
When a turtle nest is threatened by coyotes, the three friends must find a way to protect it. Can they save the turtle nest from predators? Can Jake’s growing love for the island and its inhabitants (be they two-legged, four-legged, feathered, or finned) help to heal his father?
