Book Reviews

Picture Books

• Sandy's Incredible Shrinking Footprint  March/2010
• Life in the Boreal Forest  November/2009
• I is for Inuksuk: An Arctic Celebration  November/2009
• Violet  September/2009
• Maggie Can't Wait  September/2009
• The West is Calling: Imagining British Columbia  March/2009
• The Little Word Catcher  March/2009
• Boy Soup  March/2009
• Duck! Rabbit!  March/2009
• Lemon the Duck  Winter/2009
• Out of the Deeps  Winter/2009
• Mattland  Winter/2009
• The Summer of the Marco Polo  Fall/2007
• Gracie, The Public Gardens Duck  Fall/2007
• Lily and the Paper Man  Fall/2007
• The List  Spring/2007
• A Hero Named Howe  Spring/2007
• A Bloom of Friendship: The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival  Winter/2007
• Beyond the Northern Lights  Winter/2007
• Making it Home: The Story of Catharine Parr Traill  Winter/2007
• Returning the Feathers: Five Gitxsan Stories  Winter/2007
• The Gathering Tree  Winter/2007
• The Twelve Days of Summer  Winter/2007

Chapter Books for Young Readers

• Beware, Pirates!  Spring/2007
• Belle of Batoche  Winter/2007
• Jeremy in the Underworld  Winter/2007
• Last Chance Bay  Winter/2007
• Running Scared  Winter/2007
• Somebody Else’s Summer  Winter/2007

Young Adult Fiction

• Against the Odds  March/2010
• Salt  March/2010
• Bank Job  March/2010
• Summer Of Fire  March/2010
• Chasing a Star  January/2010
• Fraud Squad  January/2010
• Gwen  January/2010
• Time Meddlers Undercover  January/2010
• On A Canadian Day  January/2010
• Jacked  January/2010
• Five Minutes More  November/2009
• Leftovers  November/2009
• Poster Boy  November/2009
• Lacey and the African Grandmothers  November/2009
• Home Free  November/2009
• In Ecstasy  November/2009
• Tripping  September/2009
• Wanting Mor  September/2009
• Chenxi and the Foreigner  September/2009
• The Shade  September/2009
• Return to Bone Tree Hill  September/2009
• Addison Addley and the Things That Aren’t There  May/2009
• Feather Brain  May/2009
• The Girl in the Backseat  May/2009
• Before Green Gables  May/2009
• Child of Dandelions  Winter/2009
• The Ghost of Northumberland Strait  Winter/2009
• Ramp Rats: A Graphic Guide Adventure  Winter/2009
• A Kind of Courage  Fall/2008
• The Diary of Laura’s Twin  Fall/2008
• The Old Brown Suitcase  Fall/2008
• Flight of the Tiger Moth  Fall/2008
• Spider’s Song  Winter/2008
• Chocolate River Rescue  Fall/2007
• The Youngest Spy  Fall/2007
• A Sky Black with Crows  Fall/2007
• The Undergardeners  Spring/2007
• Yossi’s Goal  Spring/2007
• A Walk in the Park  Winter/2007
• James Houston’s Treasury of Inuit Legends  Winter/2007
• Rescues!  Winter/2007
• The Crazy Man  Winter/2007

Drama

• Kindness  January/2010
• Matthew and Stephen  Winter/2007

Poetry

• Red Lacquered Chopsticks  Spring/2008

Books that Inspire

• One Peace: True Stories of Young Activists  May/2009
• Three Cups of Tea (The Young Reader’s Edition)  May/2009
• Nobel’s Women of Peace  May/2009
• Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners  May/2009
• Wonder Kids: The Remarkable Lives of Nine Child Prodigies  May/2009

Biography

• Courage and Compassion: Ten Canadians Who Made a Difference  March/2009
• Great Peacemakers: True Stories From Around the World  Fall/2008
• Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox  Fall/2008
• English Girl, German Boy: World War II From Both Sides  Fall/2008
• Astonishing Women Artists  Winter/2008

Non-Fiction

• What’s the BIG Idea?  January/2010
• Of Hockey and Hijab  January/2010
• Pharaohs and Foot Soldiers  January/2010
• The Green Teen: The Eco-friendly Teen’s Guide to Saving the Planet  November 2009
• The Curse of Akkad  May/2009
• Focus on Flies  March/2009
• The Little Black Book for Guys: Guys Talk ABout Sex  March/2009
• The Beginner's Guide to Canadian Honours  March/2009
• Yum: Your Ultimate Manual for Good Nutrition  March/2009
• Baby Polar Bear  Winter/2009
• 52 Days by Camel  Winter/2009
• The Kids Book of Canada at War  Fall/2008
• Desperate Glory: The Story of WW I  Fall/2008
• Let’s Clear the Air: 10 Reasons Not to Start Smoking  Spring/2008
• A School Like Mine: A unique celebration of schools around the world  Spring/2008
• This Is My Planet: The Kids’ Guide to Global Warming  Spring/2008
• Let’s Go! The Story of Getting from There to Here  Winter/2008
• The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations  Winter/2008
• This Is My Planet: The Kids’ Guide to Global Warming  Winter/2008
• Mazo de la Roche: Rich and Famous Writer  Fall/2007
• An Inconvenient Truth: the crisis of global warming  Fall/2007
• From Boneshakers to Choppers: The Rip-Roaring History of Motorcycles  Fall/2007
• Sailing for Glory: The Story of Captain Angus Walters and the Bluenose  Spring/2007
• I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids’ Guide to the Cycle of Life & Death  Spring/2007
• Far West: The Story of British Columbia  Spring/2007
• Canada’s System of Government  Winter/2007
• Fearless Fashion  Winter/2007
• Great Canadians: Twelve Profiles of Extraordinary People  Winter/2007
• René Lévesque: Charismatic Leader  Winter/2007
• Rhino Rescue  Winter/2007

CD/DVD

• Tying Your Own Shoes  March/2010
• Finding Farley  March/2010
• Mark, An Island Champ  November 2009
• Hannah’s Story  Spring/2008
• The Refugees of the Blue Planet  Winter/2008
• This is Daniel Cook  Fall/2007
• Pooh Invents a New Game and other stories by A.A. Milne  Fall/2007
• Mr. Bach Comes to Call  Fall/2007

Professional Books

• Building Character from the Start  March/2010
• Fairy Tales in the Classroom  November/2009
• Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind: Thoughts on Teacherhood  November/2009
• Writing To Go: Top Ten Writing Tips  September/2009
• My Dog Bites The English Teacher  September/2009
• The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly  September/2009
• Great Teacher Projects  September/2009
• My Haiku Family  September/2009
• Teaching Green: The High School Years  May/2009
• Timesavers for Teachers (Book 1 and Book 2)  May/2009
• The Joys of Teaching Boys  March/2009
• Basic Tools for Beginning Writers  March/2009
• Essay Writing: Teaching The Basics From The Ground Up  March/2009
• Book Talk: The Power of Book Clubs in the Middle Grades  Winter/2009
• In Graphic Detail: Using Graphic Novels in the Classroom  Winter/2009
• Yes, but…if they like it, they’ll learn it!  Winter/2009
• Leap Into Literacy  Fall/2008
• The Inspirational Teacher  Spring/2008
• Guided Listening  Spring/2008
• The Writing Circle  Spring/2008
• 3 Minute Motivator  Winter/2008
• From Student to Citizen Winter/2008
• Reclaiming Reluctant Writers Winter/2008
• From Chaos to Control Winter/2008
• Getting You Writing!  Spring/2007
• Asking Better Questions, 2nd Edition  Spring/2007
• Family Literacy Experiences  Spring/2007
• The Bully and Me: Stories That Break the Cycle of Torment  Spring/2007
• Evaluating Students: How teachers justify and defend their marks to parents, students, and principals  Winter/2007
• Loving Your Life  Winter/2007
• Teaching from the Outside In  Winter/2007
• The Mirror and the Beast Workbook  Winter/2007
• The New Speaking of Sex  Winter/2007
• The Power and Promise of Humane Education  Winter/2007
• Tutoring Adolescent Readers  Winter/2007
• What’s Next for this Beginning Writer?  Winter/2007