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Canadian Flyer Adventures #12
On the Case
When friends Emily Bing and Matt Martinez discovered the old red sled in Emily’s attic, they never dreamed it had magical powers. But when they rubbed the sled’s maple leaf logo, they suddenly found themselves in the year 1577, helping Martin Frobisher search for the Northwest Passage. Since then, the sled has taken them back through time, again and again, to experience the most exciting points in North American history. This time, they’ve landed in 1888, in the rough, tough western town of Galbraith’s Ferry. They’re relieved to see the legendary figure of Sam Steele, the burly superintendent of the Northwest Mounted Police, who’s ridden in to restore order to this lawless outpost. As he works on a tough murder case, Emily and Matt are only too happy to help. It’s said that the Mounties “always get their man,” but in this case, Steele isn’t so sure. Can Matt and Emily stay out of danger while helping him clear an innocent man?
- GenresCanadaChapter Books
96 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2009
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August 4, 2016
Reminiscent of the popular Magic Treehouse series, in the Canadian Flyer Adventures a magic sled takes two children back in time to explore important historic Canadian events. Fans of the Magic Treehouse books will love these fast paced, easy to read adventure stories. Short chapters and age appropriate vocabulary make these books perfect for children ready for their first chapter books.
In this twelfth book, Matt and Emily ride their sled back to 1888 to help Sam Steele, the legendary Northwest Mounted Police superintendent, whom they’ve met before in their adventure “Crazy for Gold”, solve a murder. Upon their arrival in Galbraith’s Ferry, a BC town later renamed Fort Steel, Sam Steele is about to begin his investigation. The children see first hand the racist attitudes and way the white settlers are mistreating First Nations people.
The book is rather anticlimactic. Sam Steele determines the Kootenay men who have been accused of the murder were nowhere near the crime scene when it happened. The white men vow revenge and the real murderer is neither discovered or searched for. Perhaps a very young audience would not notice all the loose ends. The rather lack luster conclusion makes an adult reader wonder whether the author had met her 80ish page quota, and couldn’t fit the rest of the story into the book, so she simply sent the children home.
The educational highlights of this book, as in all of the series are Emily and Matt’s Top Ten Facts that they learned as well as an author’s note section. These brief lists build on the information the story covered.
In this twelfth book, Matt and Emily ride their sled back to 1888 to help Sam Steele, the legendary Northwest Mounted Police superintendent, whom they’ve met before in their adventure “Crazy for Gold”, solve a murder. Upon their arrival in Galbraith’s Ferry, a BC town later renamed Fort Steel, Sam Steele is about to begin his investigation. The children see first hand the racist attitudes and way the white settlers are mistreating First Nations people.
The book is rather anticlimactic. Sam Steele determines the Kootenay men who have been accused of the murder were nowhere near the crime scene when it happened. The white men vow revenge and the real murderer is neither discovered or searched for. Perhaps a very young audience would not notice all the loose ends. The rather lack luster conclusion makes an adult reader wonder whether the author had met her 80ish page quota, and couldn’t fit the rest of the story into the book, so she simply sent the children home.
The educational highlights of this book, as in all of the series are Emily and Matt’s Top Ten Facts that they learned as well as an author’s note section. These brief lists build on the information the story covered.
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