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Table of Contents

Volume XV Number 15

March 20, 2009

Book Reviews
   
Can Purple Mamma: A Storybook to Help Young Children Understand a Parent's Bipolar Illness.
  Tricia Prato.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can The King's Taster.
  Kenneth Oppel. Illustrated by Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 4 / Ages 4- 9.
   
Can Follow That Map! A First Book of Mapping Skills.
  Scot Ritchie.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can The Jazlyn J's Money Matters.
  Renná Bruce. Illustrated by Robin Oakes.
Review by Stephanie Wasserman and Keith McPherson.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can Jazlyn J's Just Jealous.
  Renná Bruce. Illustrated by Robin Oakes.
Review by Stephanie Wasserman and Keith McPherson.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can Jazlyn J Learns Her Address.
  Renná Bruce. Illustrated by Robin Oakes.
Review by Claire Perrin.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can Neekna and Chemai.
  Jeannette C. Armstrong. Illustrated by Barbara Marchand.
Review by Gail de Vos.
Kindergarten-grade 4 / Ages 5-9.
   
Can Milton's Secret: An Adventure of Discovery through Then, When and the Power of Now.
  Eckhart Tolle & Robert S. Friedman. Illustrated by Frank Riccio.
Review by Christina Neigel.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Martin Bridge Onwards and Upwards!
  Jessica Scott Kerrin. Illustrated by Joseph Kelly.
Review by Jonine Bergen.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Why Do Horses Have Manes?
  Elizabeth MacLeod.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 2-7 / Ages 7-12.
   
Can Carried Away on Licorice Days.
  Margaret J. McMaster.
Review by Vikki VanSickle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Ugly Bugs. (Horrible Science).
  Nick Arnold. Illustrated by Tony De Saulles.
Review by Barbara McMillan.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Escape From the Towers. (Crabtree Contact).
  Andra Serlin Abramson.
Review by Allison McDonald.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Bigfoot and Other Mysterious Creatures. (Crabtree Contact).
  John Townsend.
Review by Dana L. Coates.
Grades 3-9 / Ages 8-14.
   
Can The Great Lakes. (Natural Wonders).
  Annalise Bekkering.
Review by Vanessa Sobkovich-Wiebe.
Grades 3 and up / Ages 8 and up.
   
Can A Piece of Forever. (Streetlights).
  Laurel Dee Gugler.
Review by Betty Klassen.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Queen of Disguises. (A Dinah Galloway Mystery).
  Melanie Jackson.
Review by Wendy Williams.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Laura Secord. (Remarkable Canadians).
  Jennifer House.
Review by Ian Stewart.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Louis Riel. (Remarkable Canadians).
  Carol Koopmans.
Review by Ian Stewart.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Pilot Error.
  M.D. Meyer.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Knights. (Horrible Histories Handbooks).
  Terry Deary. Illustrated by Martin Brown.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Totally Horse Mad. (Horse Mad; 1).
  Kathy Helidoniotos.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Forensic Evidence: Prints. (Crabtree Contact).
  John Townsend.
Review by Kim Aippersbach.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Forensic Evidence: Hairs and Fibers. (Crabtree Contact).
  Darlene Stille.
Review by Kim Aippersbach.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Crime Lab Technician. (Crabtree Contact).
  John Townsend.
Review by Kim Aippersbach.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Bone Detectives. (Crabtree Contact).
  John Townsend.
Review by Kim Aippersbach.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Seeing Red.
  Anne Louise MacDonald.
Review by Andrea Galbraith.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can Japan: The Land. (The Lands, Peoples, and Culture Series). Rev. Ed.
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 4-9 / Ages 9-14.
   
Can Japan: The People. (The Lands, Peoples, and Culture Series). Rev. Ed.
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 4-9 / Ages 9-14.
   
Can Japan: The Culture. (The Lands, Peoples, and Culture Series). Rev. Ed.
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 4-9 / Ages 9-14.
   
Can Snake Bite. (Crabtree Contact).
  Tom Jackson.
Review by Bruce Dyck.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can A Really Short History of Nearly Everything.
  Bill Bryson.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Wolf Pack of the Winisk River.
  Paul Brown. Illustrated by Robert Kakegamic.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up.
   
Can Cyberbullying: Deal With It and Ctrl Alt Delete It. (Deal With It).
  Robyn MacEachern. Illustrated by Geraldine Charette.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14.
   
Can Broken.
  Alyxandra-Fitzhenry.
Review by Karen Taylor.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Wondrous Strange.
  Lesley Livingston.
Review by Brianne Grant.
Grades 7-11 / Ages 12-16.
   
Can The Mitochondrial Curiosities of Marcels 1 to 19.
  Jocelyn Brown.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 8-10 / Ages 13-15.
   
Can Pretenders. (The Okal Rel Saga; Book 3).
  Lynda Williams.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can Tripping.
  Heather Waldorf.
Review by Megan Lankford.
Grades 8 and up / Age 13 and up.
   
Can True Stories of Rescue and Survival: Canada's Unknown Heroes.
  Carolyn Matthews.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   

 



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