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Hope you had fun playing our Spaceopoly game this summer! Don't forget to return your game board to the Library before September 5 to enter our prize draw for $100 gift card. You can drop off your game board in person, or email a photo of your board to libraryprograms@portmoody.ca
Join the Adult and Teen Summer Reading Club at the Port Moody Public Library!
Read your way through the universe this summer with a game of Spaceopoly — it’s like the classic game of Monopoly, but with a book-themed twist!
Return your game board to the Library between August 24 - September 5 to enter our prize draw for a $100 gift card.
Get your Spaceopoly game board
Pick one up from the Library
Stop by the Library during our opening hours (Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, 10am - 4:30pm, and Tue, 12:30pm - 7pm) to get your Summer Reading Club materials, including a Spaceopoly game board, DIY paper die, game pieces, and an instruction sheet.
Print your own
Game board [PDF] • Instruction sheet [PDF]
Play on screen
Download the Game board [PDF]. To roll a die online, type "roll d6" into Google.
How to play:
- Starting from GO, roll the die and move your game piece.
- Read a book that fits the category you land on.
- When you finish the book, put a check mark on the space you've completed.
- Roll the die again for your next reading prompt.
- Use your game board all summer long. No minimum or maximum spaces completed required.
- Return your game board to the Library between August 24 - September 5 to enter our prize draw for a $100 gift card.
You can drop off your game board in person, or email a photo of your game board to libraryprograms@portmoody.ca.
Join the online Summer Reading Club group
Share how your Spaceopoly game is going throughout this summer on our Facebook group. Show us what space you've landed on and what you're reading, ask and give book suggestions to one another, and post your Community Chest answers and photos.
Book suggestions for the different Spaceopoly categories
We've put together the following booklists to help you find books that fit the categories you land on.
Adult
- About social issues
- About space
- About sports
- Award winner
- Biography or memoir
- Book made into movie
- Book one in a series
- By author of Asian descent
- By Black author
- By Canadian author
- By Indigenous author
- By LGBTQ+ author
- Chance (get a random book suggestion)
- Classic
- Electric company
- Go: Read a poem
- Graphic novel
- In Space Jail: Read a banned book
- Science fiction
- Shuttle to Africa
- Shuttle to Central/South America / Caribbean
- Shuttle to Middle East and India
- Shuttle to the past
- Title with word related to space (e.g. universe, star, sun)
- Water works
- With blue cover
Teen
- About social issues
- About space
- About sports
- Award winner
- Biography or memoir
- Book made into movie
- Book one in a series
- By author of Asian descent
- By Black author
- By Canadian author
- By Indigenous author
- By LGBTQ+ author
- Chance (get a random book suggestion)
- Classic
- Electric company
- Go: Read a poem
- Graphic novel
- In Space Jail: Read a banned book
- Science fiction
- Shuttle to Africa
- Shuttle to Central/South America / Caribbean
- Shuttle to Middle East and India
- Shuttle to the past
- Title with word related to space (e.g. universe, star, sun)
- Water works
- With blue cover
Landed on Community Chest?
Choose a random number (1-12) and see what you have to do. Share your answer by emailing libraryprograms@portmoody.ca, or posting to our Facebook Group or Twitter (hashtag: #Spaceopoly).
- Show your shelfie! Post a picture of your bookshelf.
- Book Beauty Contest! Share what book you think has the best cover.
- Bank error in your favour! Read any book you choose and post it!
- You inherit! Read a book recommended by a friend.
- Income tax refund! Share a picture of your favourite reading spot.
- Get out of jail free card! Tell us your favourite comfort read.
- Advance to “Go” and read a poem.
- Treasure in Book Sale. Tell us what is the best book you’ve bought.
- Go to Jail and read a banned book.
- It’s your birthday. Tell us what book you would like to receive as a gift.
- Sale of stock. What book would you buy?
- Holiday Fund matures. Which author would you take out for dinner?