FRANKIE ZAPPER AND THE DISAPPEARING TEACHER Rogers, Linda and Rick Van Krugel Vancouver, Ronsdale Press, 1994. 125pp, paper, $7.95 ISBN 0-921870-27-2. CIP Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11 Reviewed by Gillian Martin Noonan Volume 22 Number 6 1994 November / December Frankie Zapper is a native boy with the ability to make the improbable happen. The story focuses on Frankie and his two friends Super Jen, a rambunctious girl, and Odie, a dyslexic whiz kid. The three are confronted with a variety of problems both in and out of school. The most pressing is a strange and heartless teacher who enjoys humiliating his students. Frankie seemingly solves that prob-lem when he changes the teacher into a parrot, but that is only the beginning of their problems. Frankie Zapper and the Disappearing Teacher is a difficult-to-read and uninteresting story. While the characters are definite exaggerations, they are exaggerations too ridiculous to believe in or care about. The story is over-written and some of the descriptions and illustrations are overly sardonic in tone. This reviewer found little humour in the story. This is definitely a book to pass over, as it offers little to the reader in story, characterization or theme. Gillian Martin Noonan is a teacher-librarian living in Old Perlican, Newfoundland