Discover the joy of reading with Book Clubs and Book Fairs

Avery Hellas • April 5, 2023 TopicsApril Book Clubs books flyers parents series teachers

Scholastic Reading Club Flyer Reveal: April Showers Bring May Readers


Here are some of their favourites from the Scholastic Reading Club April flyer (visit scholastic.ca/readingclub to start shopping).

Featured for Pre-Kindergarten

Ivy the Very Determined Dog by Maureen & Chris Harrington

Who is Ivy? One of the bravest and cutest French bulldogs you will ever meet! On her third birthday Ivy became suddenly paralyzed in her back legs due to a rare genetic spinal disease. But that has not stopped Ivy from living life to her absolute fullest.

Ivy will inspire readers to embrace their individuality with this valuable lesson: Always keep on rolling whatever you do, and never let anything get the better of you!

Featured for Kindergarten

Fluffy McWhiskers: Cuteness Explosion by Stephen Martin

Meet Fluffy, an adorable kitten. So adorable, in fact, that anyone who sees her will spontaneously explode into balls of sparkles and fireworks. KABOOM! Poof.

Poor Fluffy doesn’t want anyone to get hurt, but everything she tries, even a bad haircut, just makes her cuter! So Fluffy runs away someplace no one can find her. Find out if there’s any hope for Fluffy in this funny and subversive story about self-acceptance and finding friendship in unlikely places.

Featured for Grade 1

When Things Aren’t Going Right, Go Left by Marc Colagiovanni

From #1 New York Times bestselling creator, Peter H. Reynolds, and talented debut author, Marc Colagiovanni, comes an inspirational story about optimism, overcoming adversity, and forging your own path.

Told through creative language play, and with depth and whimsy, this picture book reminds readers of their own agency and the power they have to direct their own path. Marc Colagiovanni’s lyrical text and Peter H. Reynolds’s stunning art create an enduring message of strength and perseverance that is both universal and personal, and one that readers will be drawn to over and over again.

Featured for Grade 2

Diary of a Pug #8: Pug’s New Puppy by Kyla May

Bub the pug and Bella can’t wait to teach Nana’s new puppy some tricks, but training a puppy isn’t as easy as it sounds!

This series is part of Scholastic’s early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!

Featured for Grade 3

Bad Food #4: Live and Let Fry by Eric Luper

After saving Belching Walrus Elementary yet again, Slice, Totz, and Scoop are ready to finally lay back and relax… not!

When a family of doughnuts shows up at the school to tackle an enemy, it’s up to our favorite foods to confront the threat and save Belching Walrus once and for all! Are they up to the task?

This chapter book features illustrations by viral sensation Joe Whale aka the Doodle Boy.

Featured for Grade 4

Dog Man #11 Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea by Dav Pilkey

The highly anticipated new graphic novel in the #1 worldwide bestselling Dog Man series starring everyone’s favorite canine superhero by award-winning author and illustrator Dav Pilkey is back!

Piggy is back, and his newest plot is his most diabolical yet. Dog Man and the rest of your favourite characters must join together in this heroic and hilarious, ALL NEW adventure. WHAT new villains are on the horizon? WHERE are they all coming from? And WHO will step forward to save the city when scoundrels sabotage our Supa Buddies?

Featured for Grade 5

City Spies: Forbidden City by James Ponti

After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission – once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can’t.

The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy’s tournaments in Moscow and Beijing.

Meanwhile, Sydney’s embedded as a junior reporter for a teen lifestyle site as she follows the daughter of a British billionaire on tour with the biggest act on her father’s music label to uncover what links both the band and the billionaire have to a recent threat from an old Soviet missile base.

With so much happening, will the young spies be able to stay focused… and keep the world safe?

Featured for Grade 6 & up

The Pathfinders Society: The Mystery of Moon Tower by Francesco Sedita

Kyle is a new kid in town who likes to draw. Vic is a cool cheerleader who’s secretly a math whiz. Quiet Beth is a history buff, while goofball Harry likes performing magic tricks, with the help of his patient wingman, Nate. Five kids unlikely to form a team, for sure.

But then they’re thrown together at summer camp, where they watch a grainy old movie about the history of their town, Windrose, and one of its illustrious citizens of a bygone era: the intrepid explorer-inventor Henry Merriweather. He’s the one who established their camp. Merriweather’s Camp Pathfinders motto? Plus Ultra: More Beyond!

The five kids soon find there is indeed “more beyond” in their pokey town with its weird weather and sudden geysers of smelly air. Deciphering a route of historical markers leads them to Merriweather’s old castle, which is lined with ornate, beautiful tiles in hallways that lead to secret rooms full of odd objects – and where time itself is warped!

Kyle, Vic, Beth, Harry, and Nate witness scenes from Merriweather’s past and realize his experiments and eccentricities are pointing toward a path that could lead to the rumoured lost treasure of Windrose.

This is the path our heroes are meant to follow, on a journey that will take them back and forth through time, through woods, and across waterways revealed by moonlight, right up to the looming Moon Tower itself – which holds Merriweather’s secret… and the treasure!