Kliatt articles from January 2004

Kliatt archives from January 2004

The novel novel: a look at alternative formats in today's YA literature.
January 1, 2004... While the standard stylistic form for a YA novel--20 or so linear chapters that tell the story of boy X or girl Y from either the first person or third person perspective--has not disappeared from the canon of the genre, a new breed of novels...

Bray, Libba. A great and terrible beauty.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Delacorte. 403p. c2004. 0-38573028-4. $15.95. JS The cover is compelling: a photograph of the back of a young woman dressed in old-fashioned corsets. It is historical fiction, perhaps better described as gothic fiction. The...

Colfer, Eoin. The eternity code.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Hyperion. 309p. c2003. 078681914-6. $16.95. J * In his third outing (following Artemis Fowl and Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident), 13-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has promised his newly reformed father that he'll go straight...

Colfer, Eoin. The wish list.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Hyperion. 252p. c20O0, c2003. 078681863-8. $16.95. JS * When a nasty teenage boy named Belch and his even nastier dog Raptor involve 14-year-old Meg in the attempted robbery of an old man, an unexpected explosion occurs. Meg, Belch, and...

Cooley, Beth. Ostrich eye.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Delacorte. 181 p. c2004. 0-385-73106-X. $15.95. J Ginger is the narrator, a young teen who lives with her mother, her stepfather, and her younger half-sister, Vivian. She is hardworking, helpful, responsible--all good things....

Corder, Zizou. Lionboy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Dial. 288p. c2003. 0-8037-2982-0. $15.99. J In a future world in which fuel for cars or planes is rare (though cell phones abound), a boy named Charlie lives happily in London with his British mother and West African father,...

Durbin, William. Blackwater Ben.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Wendy Lamb Books. 200p. bibliog. c2003.0-385-72928-6. $15.95. J The year is 1898, and 13-year-old Ben drops out of school to join his father at Blackwater Logging Camp. Pa is the cook, and Ben is the hardworking cook's...

Jinks, Catherine. Pagan's crusade & Pagan in exile.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... JINKS, Catherine. Pagan's crusade. Candlewick. 248p. maps. c1992, 2003.0-7636-2019-X. $15.99. JS JINKS, Catherine. Pagan in exile. Candlewick. 336p. maps. c1994, 2003.0-7636-2020-3. $15.99. JS Street urchin Pagan Kidrouk, age 16,...

Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira-kira.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 244p. c2004. 0-68985639-3. $15.95. J Kadohata is a successful writer of short stories published in The New Yorker and other magazines, and she has written a highly praised novel, The Floating World. In this book...

Korman, Gordon. Jake, reinvented.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Hyperion. 213p. c2003. 0-7868-1957-X. $15.99. S In this homage to The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald High has a new student, Jake Garrett, who throws the best parties and is considered the coolest guy in town. He dresses like "he'd just...

Major, Kevin. Ann and Seamus.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Art by David Blackwood. Groundwood. 109p. illus. c2003. 0-88899-561-X. $16.95. JS This exquisitely produced book, by two famous Canadians, one a writer, the other an artist, tells about a historic event: the rescue in 1828 of 163...

Mass, Wendy. Leap Day.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Little, Brown. 212p. c2004. 0-316-53728-4. $16.95. JS It's February 29th, and Josie Taylor is turning 16 but having her "fourth" birthday. Her family goes all out to celebrate her special leap year day, and Josie is looking forward to...

McNamee, Graham. Acceleration.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Wendy Lamb Books. 210p. c2003. 0385-73119-1. $15.95. JS The dramatic cover of a young man's eyes staring ahead will grab potential readers for this thriller, set in Toronto. It is written by the author of Hate You, which was...

Moriarty, Jaclyn. The year of secret assignments.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Scholastic. 344p. c2004. 0439-49881-3. $16.95. JS * A wonderfully imaginative, difficult to describe novel from the author of Feeling Sorry for Celia, and any readers familiar with that first novel will grab eagerly for this new one....

Moses, Shelia P. The legend of Buddy Bush.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster. 216p. illus, c2004. 0-689-85839-6. $15.95. JS Moses has written poetry and plays; she is co-author of Dick Gregory's memoir Callus on my Soul. In this novel for YAs she returns to her childhood home for the setting:...

Paulsen, Gary. Brian's hunt.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Wendy Lamb Books. 112p. c2004. 0385-74647-4. $14.95. (lib. bdg.: 0-385-90882-2. $16.99). J * Brian, hero of Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter and Brian's Return, is now 16, and he has once again abandoned civilization for...

Philbrick, Rodman. The young man and the sea.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Scholastic, Blue Sky Press. 191p. c2004. 0-439-36829-4. $16.95. J * This is a great adventure; a fishing story, a survival story; it will appeal to readers of Paulsen's Hatchet series, to Boy Scouts, and to others interested in outdoor...

Reuter, Bjarne. The ring of the slave prince.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tr. from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally. Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 410p. c2000, c2003. 0-525-47146-4. $21.99. JS The year is 1639, and 14-year-old Tom dreams of finding sunken treasure in order to free his mother and sister from their life of...

Rinaldi, Ann, Sarah's ground.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster. 176p. c2004. 0-689-85924-4. $15.95. JS Every few months, it seems. Rinaldi gives us another historical novel. This one is an unusual situation, based on a true story. It takes place during the Civil War. The main...

Son, John. Finding my hat.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... (First Person Fiction.) Scholastic, Orchard. 183p. 0-43943538-2. $16.95. JS John Son adds the inspiration of his own family's immigrant experience to this excellent series: John's parents were born in Korea; he was born in Germany (like...

Stahler, David Truesight.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... HarperCollins, Eos. 192p. c2004. 0-06-052285-2. $15.99. (Library: 0-06-052286-0. $16.89.) J In the isolated community of Harmony Station, on the planet of Nova Campi, everyone is blind--a deliberate act of genetic engineering. Sight is...

Wallace, Karen. Wendy.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster. 307p. c2003. 0-689-86769-7 $16.95. J You remember the Darling family from Peter Pan--Wendy is the oldest, with two younger brothers, and a beloved dog, Nana. Perhaps to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of...

Whitney, Kim Ablon. See you down the road, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Knopf. 186p. c2004. 0-375-82467-7. $1799. JS In all my years of reading YA literature, I can't remember any other book about Travelers--Gypsies--in the US. Whitney says in an Author's Note that she became interested in the...

Williams-Garcia, Rita. No laughter here.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Harper Collins, Amistad. 133p. c2004. 0-688-16247-9. $15.99. J Akilah Hunter is spending her tenth summer looking forward to the return of her best friend Victoria Ojike from Nigeria, and to the start of fifth grade, but not to getting her...

Zinnen, Linda. Holding at third.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Dutton, Penguin Putnam. 160p. c2004. 0-525-47163-4. $15.99. J At thirteen, Matt is a baseball star, dominating center field and hitting up a storm. But when his beloved older brother Tom has to go to another town for treatment for his bone...

Acker, Rick. The lost treasure of Fernando Montoya.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... (The Davis Detective Mysteries). Kregel. 188p. c2003. 0-8254-2005-9. $7.99. J Although they are teenagers, Kirstin and Arthur Davis have a track record as successful detectives. Their month of vacation with a relative in San Francisco...

Asai, Carrie. The book of the pearl.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... (Samurai Girl, BookThree). Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 229p. c2003.0-689-86432-9. $6.99. S A six-month-old baby was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents, making her Japan's most celebrated orphan. She is named Heaven and...

Axelsson, Majgull. April witch, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House. 419p. c2002. 0-8129-6688-0. $12.95. A Desiree Johanssen is the "April Witch," defined by Axelsson as a person with "a weak and disabled body but a very strong mind" (p.411). She was born brain damaged, which resulted in both...

Barclift, Betty. Gypsy summer, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Kregel. 154p. c2003. 0-8254-2038-5. $6.99. J Thirteen-year-old Katie Barnes and her family have some bad luck when her father's job disappears. Loading the whole family in the car, they set out from Kansas to the Puget Sound area. Living in...

Bechard, Margaret. Hanging on to Max.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster. 204p. 2002. 0-689-86268-7. $6.99. JS * TO quote from the review in KLIATT, May 2002: This is a poignant story of a 17-year-old who wants to raise his baby son when the mother says she will give the baby up for adoption....

Cooney, Caroline B. Goddess of yesterday.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Dell Laurel-Leaf. 263p. maps. c2002. 0-440-22930-8. $5.99. JS * To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 2002: This is the most ambitious novel I have read by Cooney. known for her ever-popular works like the...

Dokey, Cameron. How not to spend your senior year.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 293p. c2004. 0-689-86703-4. $5.99. JS From Cameron Dokey, the talented author of over 25 YA novels, comes an innovative, unusual "can't-put-this-down" story. When senior wallflower Jo O'Connor finally questions why...

Efaw, Amy. Battle dress.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... HarperCollins, Trophy. 382p. c2000. 0-06-053520-2. $6.99. JS Author Amy Efaw, a real-life graduate of West Point, has written a gripping novel about 17-year-old Andi Davis, who leaves her abusive and dysfunctional family and flees to the...

Friesen, Gayle. Losing forever.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Kids Can Read Press. 247p. c2002. 1-55337-032-5. $6.95. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November 2002: Jes is a thoughtful young teenager trying to make sense of her ever-changing world. She wanted to believe in...

Heneghan, James. Torn away.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Orca. 256p. c2003. 1-55143-263-3. $6.95. JS Declan Doyle is a teenage boy from Northern Ireland who has one goal in life: to avenge the deaths of his father, mother, and younger sister. He is a member of the Holy Terrors, a children's...

Hua, Yu. To live, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tr. by Michael Berry. Random House, Anchor. 250p. c1993. 1-4000-3186-9. $13.00. SA Using the device of an unnamed boy narrator sent to collect folk, songs from the Chinese countryside, this novel actually tells the heartrending story of a...

Johnston, Julie. Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tundra. 220p, c1994. 0-88776-648-X. $9.95. JS With the republication of this riveting coming-of-age novel, Tundra Books revives a memorable piece of YA literature. As pertinent today as it was almost ten years ago, this book reveals the...

Johnston, Julie. Hero of lesser causes.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tundra. 222p. c1992. 0-88776-649-8. $9.95. J * Originally published about ten years ago, and a winner of the Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Award, this gem of historical fiction presents the polio scare in a...

Johnston, Wayne. The navigator of New York.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Anchor. 483p. c2002. 1-4000-3109-5. $15.95. SA Devlin Stead is a lonely boy in Newfoundland. Canada in the late 19th century who was labeled in his community as abandoned by his exploration-obsessed physician father. After his...

Keizer, Garret. God of beer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... HarperTempest. 242p. c2002. 0-06-447276-0. $6.99. S To quote from the hardcover review in KLIATT, January 2002: The title of this novel certainly catches your eye. What can it mean? Seniors at a small-town high school in Vermont realize...

Matheson, Shirlee Smith. Fastback Beach.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Orca. 97p. c2003. 1-55143-267-6. $7.95. JS Cliched but likable story of a troubled teen saved by the affection of an elderly friend and the love of a good girl. Miles' delinquent friends Larry and Spider take him joyriding in a stolen...

Merullo, Roland. In Revere, in those days.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Vintage Contemporaries. 302p. c2002. 0-375-71405-7. $13.00. SA Roland Merulla's coming-of-age novel has an authenticity that sings from every page, from its vivid description of the working class town of Revere, Massachusetts...

Morck, Irene. Tough trails.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Orca. 96p. c2003. 1-55143-271-4. $7.95. JS 17-year-old Ambrose follows his heart and saves a horse in this lightweight feel-gooder. Ambrose has been spending this summer working for his uncle, leading tourists in the trails of Alberta's...

Moses, Kate. Wintering, a novel of Sylvia Plath.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Anchor. 313p. c2003. 1-4000-3500-7. $13.00. SA This novel is a fictionalized account of the last few months of the famous American poet Sylvia Plath's life. Moses has researched and studied Plath's work and life and has...

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Achingly Alice.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 149p. c1998. 0-689-86396-9. $4.99. J To quote from the hardcover review in KLIATT, September 1998: Good middle-school fare, with Naylor continuing with her ninth book about Alice as she grows up. In this one, Alice...

Nguyen, Kien. The tapestries, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Little Brown, Back Bay. 310p. c2002. 0-316-73560-4. $13.95. SA Nguyen is the author of the fine memoir Unwanted (reviewed in KLIATT, May 2002). He came to America from Vietnam in 1985 as an older teenager, has completed his studies here and...

Olafsson, Olaf. Absolution, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Anchor. 259p. c1994. 1-4000-3068-4. $13.00. SA In a manuscript discovered after his death, an old man remembers a time in his youth when he committed a crime against another man who he felt stole his girlfriend and made him...

Otsuka, Julie. When the emperor was divine, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Anchor. 144p. c2002. 0-385-72181-1. $9.95. SA Otsuka has created an intriguing story about Japanese internment during WW II. This powerful book is characterized by sparse, contained prose detailing the lives of a Japanese...

Quindlen, Anna. Blessings, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, 237p. c2002. 0-8129-6981-2. $13.95. SA Blessings is the name of an estate owned by an aging, ornery matriarch, Lydia Blessing. One day someone drops off an infant at this estate assuming she will get excellent care. The...

Tartt, Donna. The little friend.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House. 624p. c2002. 1-4000-3169-9. $14.95. SA Tartt's first novel, A Secret History, was a surprise bestseller. This one is just as long and complex as her first, but it takes place in the South and her characters are younger. Her...

Tobin, Tobi. Door to door, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Pocket Books, MTV. 259p. c2003. 0-7434-6496-6. $11.95. S You can open many doors in your life, but it's the ones that you shut that will make the difference. For Tobi, life in the fast lane is what it is all about. It doesn't matter who she...

Toer, Pramoedya Ananta. The girl from the coast, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Hyperion. 280p. c2002. 0-7868-8708-7. $13.50. A Told by a girl whose name we never discover, this is the story of a beautiful young woman from a poor fishing family who is given in marriage to a wealthy Indonesian aristocrat. Left alone...

Velasquez, Gloria L. Teen angel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... (Roosevelt High). Arte Publico Press, Univ of Houston. 153p. c2003. 1-55885-391-X. $9.95. J The author's Roosevelt High series (Juanita Fights the School Board, Tommy Stands Alone, etc.) turns to the issue of unwanted teenage pregnancy and...

Wheeler, Richard S. Eclipse; a novel of Lewis and Clark.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tor, Forge. 380p. c2002. 0-765-30876-2. $15.95. SA Picking up at the end of their journey, the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives at the city of St. Louis tired and filthy from their multi-year trek. While deftly alternating chapters...

Bradshaw, Gillian. The wrong reflection.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Penguin, Berkley, Ace. 362p. c2000. 0-441-01097-0. $6.50. SA Rescued from drowning in his car, Paul Anderson wakes up with amnesia, but also with an absolute certainty that, whoever he is, it isn't Anderson. His desperate fear of his boss...

Brown, Simon. Inheritance.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... (Book One of Keys of Power). DAW. 424p. c2000. 0-7564-0162-3. $6.99. SA In this delightful fantasy, Queen Usharna is the holder of the four Keys of Power in Grenda Lear. On her deathbed, the Queen presents one of the keys to each of her...

David, Peter. Gods above.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... (Star Trek New Frontier). Pocket Books. 330p. c2003. 0-7434-1858-1. $6.99. JSA This is the 13th volume in the exciting Star Trek: New Frontier series about the adventures of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the USS. Excalibur. Since Peter...

de Lint, Charles. Tapping the dream tree; new tales of Newford.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tor. 541p. c2002. 0-312-86840-5. $15.95. SA This is a compilation of 18 stories copyrighted from 1998 to 2002 that feature characters from de Lint's fictional town of Newford, anytown USA, where magic holds sway. Some of the characters have...

Duane, Diane. A wizard alone.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Harcourt, Magic Carpet. 333p. c2002. 0-15-204911-8. $6.95. JS At the beginning of this installment in the Young Wizards series, Nita is mourning the recent death of her mother and is putting most of her energy into holding herself and the...

Francis, Diana Pharaoh. Path of fate.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 369p. 2003. 0-451-45950-4. $6.99. SA Abandoned Reisil has been trained as a tark: a healer. She is just starting to feel comfortable with her efforts, the village, and a possible lover. Then a black-and-white goshawk...

Grange, Jean-Christophe. The stone council.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tr. by Ian Monk. Random House, Vintage. 373p. c2001. 1-86046-996-5. $11.95. SA Thirty-year-old ethnologist Diane Thiberger travels to Thailand to adopt an Asian orphan. Diane is determinedly single because she cannot stand to be touched...

Halam, Ann. Dr. Franklin's Island.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Dell, Laurel-Leaf. 245p. c2002. 0-440-23781-5. $5.50. JS To quote the hardcover review in KLIATT, July 2002: When their plane crashes somewhere off the coast of South America, three teenage science students on the way to a...

Hamill, Pete. Forever.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Little Brown, Back Bay. 613p. c2003. 0-316-73569-8. $14.95. SA Cormac O'Connor is a young man with many secrets. His mother was a secret Jew in 1730s Ireland, his father a pagan Irishman following the old gods in secret as he and his wife...

Nix, Garth. Mister Monday.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... (The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1). Scholastic. 361p. c2003. 0-439-55123-4. $5.99. JS Close to death from an asthma attack, Arthur Penhaligan is given a book and a key (the minute hand of a clock). In this instant, he becomes involved in a...

Oltion, Jerry. The getaway special.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tor. 400p. c2001. 0-312-87778-1. $15.95. SA Traveling faster than the speed of light? That's for amateurs--and mad scientist Allen Meisner. Stowing his hyperdrive engine aboard a US spaceship, Allen whisks the crew to Saturn and beyond in a...

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn. Extremes, a Retrieval Artist novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Penguin, Roc. 373p. c2003. 0-451-45934-2. $6.50. SA Following The Disappeared, this novel continues the Retrieval Artist series that is based on Rusch's Hugo-nominated novella, The Retrieval Artist. Now Miles Flint, a former detective, has...

Sabin, E. Rose. A school for sorcery.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tor, Starscape. 318p. c2002. 0-765-34219-7. $5.99. JS * Harry Potter fans rejoice! This novel is a must for every library serving them. In this book, Tria, the main character, is sent to the Leslie Simonton School for the Magically Gifted....

Smith, Dean Wesley, ed. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds VI.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Pocket Books. 370p. c2003. 0-7434-6753-1. $14.95. JSA The Strange New Worlds series prints the best Star Trek tales from the annual amateur authors competition. In this year's volume there are 23 new tales by authors who according to the...

Thomsen, Brian M., ed. The American fantasy tradition.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tor. 604p. bibliog. c2002. 0-765-30456-2. $17.95. SA This interesting anthology of tales has stories by many well-known American authors (including Irving, Hawthorne, Alcott, Lovecraft, Jackson, King, Le Guin, Henry James, Mark Twain,...

Turtledove, Harry, et al. Worlds that weren't.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 298p. c2003. 0-451-52898-0. $14.00. SA Four novellas are included here: "The Daimon" by Harry Turtledove, "Shikari in Galveston" by S. M. Stirling, "The Logistics of Carthage" by Mary Gentle, and "The Last Ride of...

Velde, Vivian Vande. Being dead.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Harcourt, Brace. 203p. c2001. 0-15-204912-6. $6.95. JS This collection of seven ghost stories is told from a teenager's perspective. The tales are creepy but not scary. The first one, "Drop by Drop," has the biggest final twist. Brenda, a...

Almond, David. Counting stars.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House. 205p. c2000. 0-440-41826-7. $5.99. JS This collection of stories about a young boy and his family in the Northeastern part of England begins with the author saying that all the stories are about him, and so, while the stories...

Bass, Rick. The hermit's story, stories.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Houghton Mifflin, Mariner. 179p. c2002. 0-618-38044-2. $12.00. SA In each of these ten stories, Bass explores the interconnectedness of humans and nature. He does this by showing how humans relate to animals, as in "Swans," where a woman...

Furman, Laura, series ed. The O. Henry Prize stories, 2003.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Anchor. 366p. c2003. 1-4000-3131-1. $14.00. SA The O. Henry Prize Stories have been collected annually since 1919 and have included work from some of North America's most well regarded writers. These stories continue that...

Orenstein, Catherine. Little Red Riding Hood uncloaked; sex, morality and the evolution of a fairy tale.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Basic Books. 289p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. c2002. 0-465-04126-4. $14.95. A Catherine Orenstein has a degree in folklore and mythology from Harvard and her academic background is put to good use in her analysis of the Red Riding Hood...

Collins, Billy. Nine horses, poems.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House. 120p. c2002. 0-375-75520-9. $12.95. SA * American Poet Laureate (2001-3) Collins is justly celebrated for the beguiling simplicity of his style and the depth he can reach with poems that are remarkably accessible for a huge...

Levertov, Denise. Selected poems.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... New Directions. 220p. notes. index. c2002. 0-8112-1554-7. $14.95. SA Levertov is, in some ways, the anti-Plath: a bit older than Sylvia, she struggled through the same spiritual crises of the mid-20th century and emerged as a professional...

McCorkle, James. Evidences.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The American Poetry Review, Consortium. 110p. c2003. 0-9718981-4-6. $14.00. SA Jorie Graham selected Evidences as the sixth annual winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book prize. In her introduction she states, "I do not...

Bierhorst, John, ed. Latin American folktales; stories from Hispanic and Indian traditions.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House, Pantheon. 386p. notes. bibliog. c2002. 0-375-71439-1. $17.00. JSA * Part of the Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library, this rich collection is creatively edited and carefully annotated with an additional glossary and...

Kim, Elaine H. & Hyun Yi Kang, Laura, eds. Echoes upon echoes; new Korean American writings.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Temple Univ. Press. 270p. c2002. 1-889876-13-5. $19.95. SA The writings in this anthology consist of both poetry and prose, divided into six sections: Arrival, Return, Dwelling, Crossing, Descent, and Flight. The editors comment that the...

Brokaw, Tom. A long way from home; growing up in the American heartland in the forties and fifties.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House. 233p. illus. c2002. 0-375-75935-2. $12.95. JSA Journalist Tom Brokaw's hymn of praise to South Dakota, small towns, sweat equity, and family tells about "growing up in the American heartland in the Forties and Fifties," and...

Garner, Eleanor Ramrath. Eleanor's story; an American girl in Hitler's Germany.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peachtree. 269p. c1999. 156145296-3. $7.95 SA * When Eleanor Ramrath was two, during the Great Depression, she and her brother were sent from America to live with their German grandparents. Their father had lost his job as an engineer and...

Fraser, Joelle. The territory of men, a memoir.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Random House. 228p. c2002. 0-8129-6818-2. $12.95. A Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, Fraser moved often, usually with her mother and one younger half-brother, but sometimes to and with her father and another younger half-brother. Often,...

Hallman, Tom, Jr. Sam; the boy behind the mask.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Berkley. 240p. illus. c2002. 0-425-19174-5. $14,00. JSA In September 1985 Debbie and David Lightner were faced with a terrible choice. An ultrasound had just revealed that the baby Debbie would deliver in two months was...