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Book Boxes

Stealing Home

Check out one of our Book Boxes filled with a library book to check out themed goodies to open as you read. For kids ages 9-12.

*Limit one book per child per month.* 

Looking for a new read? We’ve got you covered! Check out one of our Book Boxes for kids ages 9-12.

Supplies are limited and pre-registration is required. Pre-register online starting the week before pickup to reserve your Book Box.

Pick-up begins the first Monday of the month. You will have one week from the date that pick-up begins to pick up your Book Box, or it may be given to the next person on the wait list. Book Boxes can be picked up at the Children's Reference Desk Monday-Saturday during regular library hours.

In this graphic novel, "Sandy Saito looks back to his childhood in 1940s Vancouver, when he was eight years old. He's a happy kid: he goes to school, reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball -- especially the Asahi baseball team, the pride of the Japanese-Canadian community. Then the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor -- and everything changes. The kids Sandy used to play with every day now call him names and chase him from the playground. He and his family are no longer permitted to go outside at night or visit certain areas of the city. Japanese-Canadians are stripped of their rights, their jobs and their homes, and soon the government begins to round up Japanese families, sending them to internment camps. It isn't long before Sandy's family is among them. The reader accompanies Sandy on his journey to the camp and the seasons that follow in this historically accurate portrayal of a grave chapter in both Canadian and American history." -Publisher's Book Description

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