Kliatt articles from January 2002

Kliatt archives from January 2002

The exploitation of children: past and present.
January 1, 2002... Since the beginning of history, children throughout the world have been exploited by adults. They continue to be brutally exploited in many countries around the world. The exploitation of children was also common practice in the United States....

Cappo, Nan Willard. Cheating lessons.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 234p. c2002 0-689-84378-X. $16.00. JS Smart teenagers and their smart talk dominate this story of a team of high school students preparing to compete in a Classics Contest (a sort of academic superbowl)....

Frank, E.R. America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Artheneum. 242p. c2002.0-689-84729-7. $18.00. SA "America is a boy who's been a lot of places... America is a boy who gets lost easy and is not worth the trouble of finding." In his short life, America, an emotionally...

Grimes, Nikki. Bronx masquerade.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Dial. 167p. c2002. 0-8037-2569-8. $16.99. JS Grimes uses 18 young people to tell this story of a class of teenagers in the Bronx who come to know and understand one another better through poetry. This format is now not so...

Hughes, Dean. Soldier boys.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 162p. c2001. 0-689-81748-7. $16.00. JS* Across the ocean from each other, two farm boys, Spencer, an American teen, and Dieter, a German teen, are eager to prove themselves on the battlegrounds of WW II. Spence...

Keizer, Garret. God of beer.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 240p. c2002. 0-06-029456-6. $15.95. S The title of this novel certainly catches your eye. What can it mean? Seniors at a small-town high school in Vermont realize that beer is like a religion in their world, Even though they...

Levitin, Sonia. Clem's chances.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Scholastic, Orchard. 199p. c2001. 0-439-29314-6. $17.95. J This old-fashioned adventure yarn even has chapter titles to spur on readers, just like Clem's favorite novels by Charles Dickens: "A Public Celebration and Private Humiliation...

Mann, Nick. Operating codes.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Little, Brown. 182p. c2000. 0-316-60465-8. $15.95 J Set in England, this is a combination of a ghost story and a criminal investigation; it is also a story about pacifism. Graham is 15 and his little sister Matty is 5 when they and their...

Matthews, Kezi. Scorpio's child.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Cricket Books. 152p. c2001. 0-8126-2890-X. $15.95. J In the summer of 1947, in small-town Gillford, South Carolina, 14-year-old Afton is still mourning the wartime death of her beloved older brother. When her "strange, squinty-eyed" Uncle...

Schwartz, Virginia Frances. If I just had two wings.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Stoddart. 222p. map. c2001. 0-7737-3302-7 $15.9 J Phoebe, age 13, is a slave assigned to picking cotton on an Alabama plantation, but she dreams of freedom. Her older sisters have been sold to other plantations, but she is still with her...

Shusterman, Neal. The Shadow Club rising.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 202p. c2002. 0-52546835-8. $15.99. J This exciting sequel to Shusterman's prizewinning The Shadow Club takes up the story of 14-year-old Jared a few months after the Shadow Club has been disbanded. The club, of which...

Woodson, Jacqueline. Hush.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Penguin, Putnam. 179p. 2001. 0-399-23114-5. $15.99. J* The girls' mother has escaped into religious Fanaticism; their father into depression. Why? The family's life was a happy one in Denver when the father, a police officer, decided to...

Andrews, V.C. Rose.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... (Shooting Stars, #3). Pocket Books. 185p. c2001. 0-671-03995-4. $4.99. S In this third installment of the Shooting Stars series we meet beautiful Rose Wallace. We learn that her father is loving and sweet but totally irresponsible when it...

Baldacci, David. Wish you well.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Warner. 370p C2000. 0-446-61010-0. $7.99. SA Although this story starts out slowly, by page 50 or so it has become a page-turner. A car trip turns tragic for 12-year-old New Yorker Louisa Mae Cardinal (Lou) and her younger brother Oscar...

Bat-Ami, Miriam. Two suns in the sky.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. c1999. 0-14-230036-5. $6.99. JS* This YA novel is the winner of the Scott O'Dell Award and is an ALA Best Book for YAs. It parallels the YA novel Good Night, Maman, written by Norma Fox Mazer, since both are about young...

Black, Jonah. The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud series.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Vol. 1: Girls, Girls, Girls. 233p. 0-06-440798-5. Vol. 2: Stop, Don't Stop. 229p. 0-06-440799-3. HarperCollins, Avon. c2001. $4.99 each. S In this projected trilogy, Jonah is a teenager who is forced to repeat the 11th grade because of a...

Carroll, Jenny. Code Name: Cassandra.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (1-800-Where-R-You). Pocket Books, Pulse. 264p. c2001.0-7434-1140-4. $4.99. J* Sixteen-year-old Jessica Mastriani doesn't like being called "Lightning Girl," or being used by the F.B.I. for her extra-sensory perception. She only wants to...

Deuker, Carl. Night hoops.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 250p. c2000. 0-06-447275-2. $5.95. JS To quote from the review of the hardcover edition in KLIATT, March 2000: A novel about high school basketball--white, suburban boys' basketball. Yes, this basketball does still exist, and...

Fleischman, Lisa Huang. Dream of the walled city.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Pocket Books, Washington Square Press. 418p. c2000. 0-6711-04229-7. $13.95. SA Westerners know relatively little about life in China during the period of revolution and the Communist takeover in the first half of the 20th century. Dream of...

Gores, Joe. Cases.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Warner. 354p. c1999. 0-446-67793-0. $12.95. SA Twenty-one year old Pierce Duncan graduates from Notre Dame and sets off to see America and become a writer on the way. His travels take him from Mexico to Vegas and finally to San Francisco,...

Grant, Linda. When I lived in modern times; a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Plume. 260p. c2000. 0-452-28292-6. $13.00. A This sophisticated, literary novel tells of a 20-year-old English girl's experiences in Palestine, just as the British rule there is coming to an end in 1946. Evelyn leaves London after the death...

Hansen, Joyce. The heart calls home.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 242p. c1999. 0-380-73294-7. $5.95. JS To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November 1999: This book completes a trilogy; the other titles are Which Way Freedom and Out From This Place. The three books tell an...

Holland, Cecelia. The angel and the sword.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Tor, Forge. 304p. c2000, 0-312-86889-8. $14.95. SA* This retelling of the French legend of Roderick the Beardless has many features of a successful YA novel or a classic fantasy tale. The story begins ominously, with the death of the queen,...

Horowitz, Anthony. The Devil and his boy.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 184p. c1998. 0-698-11913-4. $5.99. J To quote KLIATT's May 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Orphaned young Tom Falconer, age 13, is an innkeeper's assistant in Framingham, England in 1593. It's a pretty miserable...

King, Thomas. Truth & Bright Water.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Grove, dist. by Publishers Group West. 266p. c1999. 0-8021-3840-3. $13.00. SA Set on the high plains along the border of Montana and Alberta, this fast-moving novel covers a week in the life of its young Native American narrator. The boy...

Kohner, Frederick. Gidget.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Berkley. 154p. illus. c1957. 0-425-17962-1. $13.00. SA This reprint of the classic surfing novel will show modern teens a glimpse of a world they can only imagine, but one in which many of their baby-boomer parents lived. The refreshing...

Lansdale, Joe R. The bottoms.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Warner, Mysterious Press. 328p. c2000. 0-446-67792-2. $13.95. SA In The Bottoms, we meet Harry, an old man, who remembers strange and powerful events that happened back in 1933-34, in his East Texas hometown. The story begins with...

Lantz, Francess. Letters to Cupid.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Pleasant Co., American Girl (8400 Fairway Place, P.O. Box 620998, Middleton, WI 53562). 148p. c2001. 1-58485-374-3. $5.95. J This is a slightly over-the-top, near farcical account of Bridgette's search for true love. Most of this story is...

McCunn, RuthAnne Lum. The moon pearl.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Beacon, Bluestream. 316p. c2000. 0-8070-8349-6. $14.00. SA The Moon Pearl is the story of young women of the scenic Pearl River Delta, who make vows of spinsterhood and circumvent the usually harsh life of forced marriage in China. Mei Ju,...

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shiva's fire.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 276p. c2000.0-06-440979-1. $5.95. J The day that began with the Maharaja's birthday festivities ended with a rain so hard that an entire village's way of life was destroyed. On this day, Parvati was born and her father would...

Whelan, Gloria. Homeless bird.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 186p. c2000. 0-06-440819-1. $5.95. JS* This novel tells the story of a young girl in India who follows her parents' wishes and agrees to an arranged marriage, only to discover that living the life of love and freedom that she...

Willis, Sarah. Some things that stay.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Berkley. 275p. c2000. 0-425-17960-5. $13.00. SA After reading this outstanding coming-of-age novel it was hard to believe that it is not a true story. Fifteen-year-old Tamara Anderson is so vital and alive, as are all the book's characters....

Wittlinger, Ellen. What's in a name.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Aladdin. c2000. 0-689-84532-4. $4.99. JSA To quote KLIATT's May 2000 review of the hardcover edition: As the title suggests, identity issues, as well as the pros and cons of change, are the themes of this cleverly...

Anthony, Mark. The dark remains.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (Book Three of the Last Rune Quartet). Bantam, Spectra. c2001. 643p. 0-553-57935-5. $6.99. (also avail. in a Signet trade ed.: 0-553-38101-6. $14.95.) SA Fantasy writing continues to increase in length. Fortunately, the reader can...

Bishop, Anne. The pillars of the world.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 420p. c2001. 0.451-45850-8. $6.99. SA From the first scene of this story of high fantasy we are drawn into a world in trouble. Certain roads between Tir Alainn, the realm of the Fae (Faerie), and the mortal realm, are...

Carey, Diane. Chainmail.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Star Trek: Gateways, Bk. 2 of 7). Pocket Books. 334p. c2001. 0-7434-1855-7. $6.99. JSA This second volume in the Star Trek Gateways series is a somewhat farfetched tale in which Nick Keller, the wisecracking commander of the Federation...

Chandler, Elizabeth. No time to die.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Dark Secrets). Pocket Books, Archway. 210p. c2001. 0-7434-0030-5. $4.99. JS After Jenny's sister is brutally murdered at Wisteria's Chase College theater camp, Jenny is determined to find out more details. Her sister Lisa is believed to be...

Douglas, Sara. The wayfarer redemption.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Tor. 653p. c1995. 0-765-34130-1. $6.99. SA Faraday, a young woman caught in the political plans of her father, finds herself fleeing the city in the company of her betrothed's brother. She is unaware, as is he, of the supernatural events...

Greenberg, Martin H. & Potter, Alexander, eds. Assassin.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... DAW. 308p. c2001. 0-7564-0002-3. $6.99. SA Venture into the mind of a cold-blooded killer! This collection of fantasy tales offers insight into the lives of those we call assassins. Stories detail the loyalty among the assassins' guilds,...

Greenberger, Robert. Doors into chaos.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (Star Trek: Gateways, Bk. 3 of 7). Pocket Books. 300p. c2001. 0-7434-1856-5. $6.99. JSA This third book of the Star Trek Gateways series involves the efforts of Captain Picard and the TNG crew of the Enterprise to close the gateways that...

Jarvis, Robin. The dark portal.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (The Deptford Mice Trilogy, Bk. 1).SeaStar Books, dist. by Chronicle Books, 256p. 1989. 1-58717-112-0. $6.95. JS In the tradition of Watership Down and the Redwall series comes this novel of brave mice and evil rats. The mice of Deptford...

Lee, Gentry. The tranquility wars.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Bantam, Spectra. 627p. c2000. 0-53-57338-1. $6.99. SA It all starts in 2408 on the asteroid Cicero, as problems between the FISC (Federation of Independent Space Colonies) and its rival space power, the UDSC (United Democratic Space...

Lee, Tanith. Wolf tower.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (The Claidi Journals, Book 1). Penguin, Puffin. c1998. 0-14-230030-6 $6.99. JS To quote KLIATT's Nov. 2000 review of the hardcover edition: This is the beginning of an appealing fantasy series about a young woman named Claidi who lives...

Le Guin, Ursula. The telling.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (Hainish cycle). Berkley, Ace. 246p. c2000. 0-441-00863-1. $13.95. SA Ursula Le Guin brings a lifelong history of storytelling to this, her latest cautionary SF tale. The ironic spin is her imaginative invention of a technology-rich...

Leith, Valery. The way of the rose.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (Everien: Book 3). Bantam, Spectra. 415p. c2001. 0-553-37940-2. $13.95. SA Everien is a land fractured into a crazy quilt of time and place. Side-by-side sections will have a slow night on one side of a time line, while on the other the...

Niles, Douglas. World fall.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (Seven Circles Trilogy, bk. 2). Berkley, Ace. 359p. c2001. 0-441-00855-0. $14.95. SA The second in the Seven Circles Trilogy, this volume witnesses the crash, the world fall, of the separate seven circles that had kept dragons apart from...

Patton, Fiona. The golden sword.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (Branion series). DAW. 416p. c2001. 0-88677-921-9. $6.99. JSA In a world of castles, royalty and sentient Elements, Camden, flighty and moody as his beloved Wind, is inextricably tied to all three. From his birth, the Wind has been with...

Scott, Melissa. The Jazz.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Tor. 316p. c2000. 0312-87542-8. $14.95. SA Known by several aliases, Tin Lizzy has been in trouble with the law before and is not happy to be embroiled in another unlawful scenario. As an adolescent, she stole a "smoke" from an executive...

Swann, S. Andrew. The dragons of the Cuyahoga.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... DAW. 308p. c2001. 0-7564-0009-0. $6.99. JSA Since the magic Portal opened at the stadium in Cand about 10 years ago, not too much has changed for reporter Kline Maxwell, except that his laptop and cell phone don't work well in the Portal's...

Tarr, Judith. Pride of kings.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 451p. c2001. 0-451-45847. $14.95. JSA This is a retelling of the King Richard, Prince John and Robin of the Greenwood tale, taking actual people and events and underpinning it with magic and faery motivations. When...

Willis, Jennifer Schwamm, ed. Wizards; stories of mischief, magic and mayhem.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Avalon, Thunder's Mouth Press. 320p. illus. bibliog. c2001. 0-56025-320-7. $16.95. JSA Wizards is a collection of excerpts from many popular, and perhaps forgotten, books that deal with wizards, witches and people in unlikely places. If...

Wilson, Robert Charles. The Perseids and other stories.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Tor. 224p. c2000. 0-312-87524-X. $12.95. SA Only three of the tales included here have not been published previously, but that doesn't make this collection any less compelling. Each story is thought provoking and provides its reader with a...

Cart, Michael, ed. Tomorrowland; stories about the future.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Scholastic, Signature. 198p. c1999.0-590-37679-9. $4.99. JS* Ten YA authors peer into the future, near and distant, in this collection. Many of the stories are SF, but some, including the two most affecting, are straight realistic fiction....

Connolly, Cressida. The happiest days.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... St. Martin's, Picador. 185p. c1999. 0-312-28323-7. $12.00. SA The title of this collection of short stories belies the trauma, desperation, and sadness experienced by their various protagonists. Each story captures that moment in childhood...

McNally, John, ed. The Student body; short stories about college students and professors.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 280p. c2001. 0-299-17404-2. $16.95. A The audience for this slight collection might be defined in the subtitle. However, although the tales are about students and faculty they can be appreciated and perhaps...

Morris, Evan. The word detective; solving the mysteries behind those pesky words and phrases.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Plume. 228p. bibliog. c2000. 0-452-28264-0. $12.00. JSA Son of the celebrated editor and lexicographer William Morris, Evan Morris carries on his father's work admirably in his syndicated newspaper column "The Word Detecrive" as well as on...

Suarez, Virgil & Van Cleave, Ryan G., eds. American Diaspora; poetry of displacement.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Univ. of Iowa Press. 365p. index, c2001.0-87745-747-6. $19.95. SA The very concept of this collection, clearly implied in the title, is a resonant idea and traditional theme of artists, providing a wealth of material from which Suarez and...

The Shakespeare Handbooks. Hamlet; a guide.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... 122p. 1-56663-359-1. King Learr; a guide 116p. 1-56663-363-X, Macbeth; a guide: 90p. 1-56663-361-3. Romeo & Juliet a guide. 112p. 1-56663-365-6. by Alistair (McCallum, Ivan R. Dee. bibliogs. c2001. $8.95each. JSA McCallum, an experienced...

Bragg, Rick Somebody told me; the newspaper stories of Rick Bragg.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Random House, Vintage. 277p. c2000. 0-375-72552-0. $13.00. SA Stories of heroes, death, life and triumph--all seasoned with a "bit of southern humor and perspective"--make this an entertaining and informative read. A national correspondent...

Howard, Megan & Barret, Jon. Faith; stories of belief and spirituality.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (Teen People). HarperCollins, Avon. 130p. illus. c2001. 0-06-447321-X. $6.95. JSA These vignettes from 14 teens offer a refreshing look at how young people view themselves, their faiths, and their beliefs. There are a variety of...

Meyer, Stephanie H. & Meyer John. Teen Ink; friends and family.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... HCI. 348p. illus. c2001. 1-55874-931-4. $12.95. JS This third book in the Teen Ink series offers essays, stories, and poems written by teens, along with b/w photos and art. All were culled from the past decade of Teen Ink magazine. The...

Oates, Joyce Carol. The Best American Essays of the Century.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin. 624p. c2001. 0-6181-55872. $18.00. SA In her excellent introduction to this collection, Joyce carol Oates states her belief that "art should not be comforting." It should, instead, "provoke, disturb,... and expand our...

Armstrong, Lance. It's not about the bike; my journey back to life.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Berkley. 289p. illus. c2000. 0-425-17961-3. $13.00. JSA Lance Armstrong presents a poignant, direct view of competition, determination, and satisfaction (both personal and professional) in this autobiographical sketch of bike racing and...

Billinghurst, Jane. Growing up royal; life in the shadow of the British throne.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Firefly, Annick Press. 154p. illus. index. c2001. 1-55037-622-5. $12.95. JSA Princess Diana brought an intense interest in royalty to America. This book does a good job of describing the real life of the royals, especially Prince William,...

Biography Series. The Beatles.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... By Jeremy Roberts. 112p. 0-8225-5002-4. George W. Bush. By Heron Marquez. 112p. 0-8225-5001-6. Oprah Winfrey. By Katherine Krohn. 112p. 0-8225-5000-8. Lerner, First Avenue Editions. illus. notes. bibliog. index. c2002. $7.95 each. JS This...

Black Americans of Achievement Series. Al Sharpton.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... BLACK AMERICANS OF ACHIEVEMENT SERIES. AL SHARPTON. By Hal Marcovitz. 112p. 0-7910-6296-1. Angela Basset. By Dawn Fitzgerald. 106p. 0-7910-5811-5. Aretha Franklin. By Jim McAvoy. 112p. 0-7910-5809-3. Danny Glover. By Jim Gloria Blakely. 108p....

Bottoms, Greg. Angelhead; a memoir.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Random House, Three Rivers Press. 207p. c2000. 0-609-80714-5. $12.00. SA Love is a wonderful thing, but it can go really wrong when mental illness enters the picture. Greg Bottoms tells the story of his older brother Michael's descent into...

Edelson, Edward. Gregor Mendel and the roots of genetics.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (Oxford Portraits in Science). Oxford Univ. Press. 108p. illus. bibliog. index. c1999. 0-19-515020-1. $11.95. JS Part of the ongoing Oxford Portraits in Science series, Gregor Mendel is intended for YAs. It is brief, clearly written, and...

Hoyt, Edwin P. Yamamoto; the man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Lyons Press. 271p. map. notes. index. c1990. 1-58574-428-X. $16.95. SA Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto will be known forever to Americans for his role in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In truth, however, planning and orchestrating that raid...

Kamdar, Mira. Motiba's tattoos; a grand-daughter's journey from American into her Indian family's past.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Plume. 239p. notes. c2001. 0-452-289269-1. $14.00. JSA Mira Kamdar was a grown American woman when her Indian grandmother died in Bombay. Spurred by a desire to gain a greater understanding of her "Motiba's" life and of the 21st-century...

Karr, Mary. Cherry.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Penguin. 278p. c2000. 0-14-100207-7 $14.00. SA To quote KLIATT's Sept. 2001 review of the Books on Tape audiobook edition: Mary Karr grew up in the '60s and '70s as a smart girl in Texas. She struggled to find her way in a world where...

Kranz, Gene. Failure is not an option; mission control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and beyond.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Berkley. 415p. illus. index. c2000. 0-425-17987-7. $14.00. SA Eugene F. Kranz was just another frustrated and air-struck boy in the 1940s, too young to fight in WW II yet keenly aware of the dynamic world of aviation and the exciting...

Lauck, Jennifer. Blackbird, a childhood lost and found.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Pocket Books, Washington Square Press. 406p. c2000. 0-671-04256-4. $14.00. SA While her earliest years were happy and filled with both emotional and economic comforts, life slid quickly into a nightmare when Lauck was still preschool age....

Maldonado, David, Jr. Crossing Guadalupe Street; growing Up Hispanic & Protestant.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Univ. of New Mexico. 179p. illus. c2001. 0-8263-2231-X. $16.95. A The town of Seguin, Texas in the 1940s to the 1960s was divided by race (Mexican-Americans, Anglos, blacks), by religion (Catholics, Protestants), and by wealth (rich, poor)....

Musgrave, Susan, ed. Nerves out loud; critical moments in the lives of seven girls.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Firefly, Annick Press. 112p. c2001. 1-55037-692-6. $9.95. S* Musgrave has created an amazing collection of stories, each delving into a part of a teenager's life. Pivotal and crucial parts of these girls' lives are spilled out onto the...

Nasdijj. The blood runs like a river through my dreams; a memoir.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin, Mariner. 215p. c2000. 0-618-15448-5. $12.00. SA The authentic voice of a Native American comes through in stories of loss, intuitive caring, and search for identity. The reader perceives Nasdijj's sense of dislocation as...

O'Connor, Garry. William Shakespeare; a popular life.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Applause. 377p. notes. index. c2000. 1-55783-465-2. $16.95. SA Do we really need another biography of Shakespeare? Garry O'Connor believes that we do. He explains in his Introduction that his purpose is to present "a popular, imaginatively...

Partridge, Elizabeth. Restless spirit; the life and work of Dorothea Lange.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 122p. illus. bibliog. index. c1998. 0-14-230024-1. $10.99. JS* Many large and beautiful reproductions of Lange's famous b/w photographs of migrant farm workers, Japanese American internees, and the rural poor highlight...

Snell, Alma Hogan. Matthews, Becky, ed. Grandmother's grandchild; my Crow Indian life.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Univ. of Nebraska Press, Bison Books. 213p. illus. notes. index. c2000. 0-8032-9291-0. $12.95. SA The Smithsonian institution Research Expeditions enlisted a small army of persons to provide information, research, and personal skills to...

Tinling, Marion. Sacagawea's son; the life of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Mountain Press. 124p. illus. bibliog. Index. c2001. 0-87842-432-6. $10.00. J Newborn Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau, accompanied his parents on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Clark, later, paid for...

Berry, Dave & Hawsey, David. America's elite colleges; the smart buyer's guide to the Ivy League and other top schools.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Random House, The Princeton Review. 292p. c2001. 0-375-76206-X. $15.95. SA Last year, Harvard admitted only 11% of applicants, Princeton 12%, and Stanford 13%. The competition is tough for spots at the top colleges, and it's getting...

Maran, Meredith. Class dismissed; a year in the life of an American high school, a glimpse into the heart of a nation.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... St. Martin's, Griffin. 313p. illus. c2000. 0-312-28309-1. $14.95. SA This is a must-read for anyone interested in high schools. In fact, Class Dismissed should be required reading for any education major aiming for high school. Berkeley...

Pelzer, Dave. Help yourself; finding hope, courage, and happiness.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Plume. 218p. c2000. 0-452-28276-4. $11.00. JSA Considering the childhood Mr. Pelzer claims to have had, it is a miracle that he can even smile, let alone write a book on helping yourself out of despair and into hope. But he has and it may...

Ponton, Lynn. The sex lives of teenagers; revealing the secret world of adolescent boys and girls.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Plume. 285p. notes. c2000. 0-452-28260-8. $13.00. SA* Ponton's subtitle is not at all inaccurate: "Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls." In chapters that are almost cutely titled, Ponton packs quite a wallop and loads of...