Heidi Jardine Stoddart's love of stories and the shore began when she was a child, and decades later her memories of summers at her family cottage in St. Martins inspired a children's book.

Stoddart's book, Sea Glass Summer, is part of this year's Books and Backroads series.

Readers in six small communities in rural areas of New Brunswick took part in book clubs in CBC's partnership with New Brunswick public libraries — reading books from all genres and all with a connection to New Brunswick.

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