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Table of Contents

Volume XIX Number 5
October 5, 2012

Book Reviews
   
Can Miss Mousie’s Blind Date.
  Tim Beiser. Illustrated by Rachel Berman.
Review by Amber Allen.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 4-6.
   
Can Bye, Bye, Butterflies! (A Tell-Me-More Storybook).
  Andrew Larson. Illustrated by Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli.
Review by Roxy Garstad.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can What Do You Want To Be?
  Lauren Howell.
Review by Saeyong Kim.
Kindergarten-grade 1 / Ages 5-6.
   
Can Meet My Neighbor, the Hip-Hop Dancer. (Meet My Neighbor).
  Marc Crabtree.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Meet My Neighbor, the Librarian. (Meet My Neighbor).
  Marc Crabtree.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Meet My Neighbor, the News Camera Operator. (Meet My Neighbor).
  Marc Crabtree.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Meet My Neighbor, the Police Officer. (Meet My Neighbor).
  Marc Crabtree.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Sky Color.
  Peter H. Reynolds.
Review by Natalie Schembri.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can Mr. Zinger’s Hat.
  Cary Fagan. Illustrated by Dušan Petrisci'c.
Review by Saeyong Kim.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Seeing Orange. (Orca Echoes).
  Sara Cassidy. Illustrated by Amy Meissner.
Review by Claire Perrin.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Sir Seth Thistlewaite Seeks the Truth of Betty the Yeti. Book Three.
  Richard Thake. Illustrated by Vince Chui.
Review by Natalie Schembri.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can The Secret of the Village Fool.
  Rebecca Upjohn. Illustrated by Renné Benoit.
Review by Gillian Green.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can On the Zwieback Trail: A Russian Mennonite Alphabet of Stories, Recipes and Historic Events.
  Lisa Weaver. Illustrated by Julie Kauffman & Judith Rempel Smucker.
Review by Betty Klassen.
Grades 3 and up / Ages 8 and up.
   
Can La Malinche: The Princess Who Helped Cortés Conquer the Aztec Empire.
  Francisco Serrano. Illustrated by Pablo Serrano. Translated by Susan Ouriou.
Review by Lara LeMoal.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Learn to Speak Dance: A Guide to Creating, Performing & Promoting Your Moves.
  Ann-Marie Williams. Illustrated by Jeff Kulak.
Review by Francine Morin.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can I’ll Be Home Soon.
  Luanne Armstrong.
Review by Chris Laurie.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport.
  Deborah Hodge.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can The Edge of When.
  Carol Matas.
Review by Libby McKeever.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can West Wind Calling. (Gwen, Bk 2).
  Carolyn Pogue.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up.
   
Can Wicket Season. (Sports Stories).
  Gabrielle Prendergast.
Review by Jonine Bergen.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen.
  Susin Nielsen.
Review by Kris Rothstein.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Outlaw in India. (The Submarine Outlaw Series, Vol. 5).
  Philip Roy.
Review by Kim Aippersbach.
Grades 6-11 / Ages 11-16.
   
Can Rebel Heart. (Dust Lands: 2).
  Moira Young.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Who I Kissed.
  Janet Gurtler.
Review by Karen Boyd.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can I, Witness.
  Norah McClintock. Illustrated by Mike Deas.
Review by Andrew Laudicina.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Call the Shots.
  Don Calame.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 8-10 / Ages 13-15.
   
Can Edge of Flight. (Orca Sports).
  Kate Jaimet.
Review by Karen Rankin.
Grades 9-11 / Ages 14-16.
   
Can Redcoats and Renegades.
  Barry McDivitt.
Review by Darleen Golke.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 14-18.
   
Can The Girl With Borrowed Wings.
  Rinsai Rossetti.
Review by Kalina Lafreniere.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   

DVD Review

Can Under Pressure: Grads Face the Future. (The National).
  Review by Julie Chychota.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 14-17.

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