Join us for our Educator Book Club! Our next in-person meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 9th at 4:30 pm, and we will be discussing Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel. This will be a free event, but we highly encourage the purchase of the monthly book from our store.  Please note that the author will not be present at this event.

More about Best of All Worlds:  

From award-winning author Kenneth Oppel a startling, can’t-wait-to-talk-about-it-with-someone novel that defies genre to create a survival thriller unlike any you’ve read before. For fans of Leave the World Behind, A.S. King, M.T. Anderson, and Margaret Atwood.

Xavier Oaks doesn’t particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad’s pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it’s only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only… one morning he wakes up and the house isn’t where it was before. It’s like it’s been lifted and placed… somewhere else.

When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there’s no one else around…

Until, three years later, another family arrives.

Is there any escape? Is there a reason they are stuck where they are? Different people have different answers — and those different answers inexorably lead to tension, strife, and sacrifice.

In this masterpiece, award-winning author Kenneth Oppel builds to a heart-stopping pitch in drawing a story that feels very much of our moment, where our very human choices collectively lead to humanity’s eventual fate.

About the Author:

Kenneth Oppel is the bestselling author of Skybreaker and Airborn, a Printz Honor Book. He lives in Toronto with his family and can be found online at www.kennethoppel.ca.