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Carson Crosses Canada
by Linda Bailey (Author) and Kass Reich (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Feisty Annie Magruder and her dog, Carson, live in British Columbia, Canada, and they’re setting out to visit her sister, Elsie, in Newfoundland. In their little rattlebang car, packed with Carson’s favorite toy, Squeaky Chicken, and plenty of baloney sandwiches, Annie and Carson hit the road! They travel province by province, taking in each unique landscape and experiencing something special to that particular part of this vast, grand country.

Snippet:

On they drove, along twisty roads, through mountains as high as the sky.

“The Rockies!” said Annie. “If we were younger, we could climb them.”

“RUFF!” said Carson.

“You’re right,” said Annie. “It would be rough.”

The Sundown Kid: A Southwestern Shabbat
by Barbara Bietz (Author) and John Kanzler (Illustrator)

Booktalk: A young boy and his family settle in the “Wild West” where they are the only Jewish family in their small town. Despite keeping busy with chores, adapting to their new home among strangers proves challenging. Every Shabbat, Mama complains that there is “too much soup, not enough family.” The young boy has an idea to help relieve Mama’s homesickness and invites their new neighbors for Shabbat dinner.

Snippet: Papa promised we would build a new life out West where the wide-open spaces were as big as they sky and the night stars shimmered so bright I could almost reach out, pull one down, and put it in my pocket.

Papa said we might be the only Jewish family in our desert town.

Mama promised some things would never change. She packed her silver candlesticks, Papa’s kiddish cup, and her big soup pot.