Kliatt articles from July 2002

Kliatt archives from July 2002

CLA Greater Boston Cooperative Library Association: reading list--grades 7 and 8.(Bibliography)
July 1, 2002... The Greater Boston Cooperative Library Association has grown considerably in the last couple of years and is now comprised of 53 independent school librarians who gather together for the purpose of professional sharing and problem solving. At...

Alvarez, Julia. Before we were free.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... ALVAREZ, Julia. Before we were free. Random House, Alfred A. Knopf. 160p. map. c2002. 0-375-91544-3. $17.99. J* In a preliminary letter to the reader, Alvarez, the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and other well-known...

Booth, Teena. Falling from fire.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... BOOTH, Teena. Falling from fire. Random house, Wendy Lamb books. 202p. c2002. 0-385-900473. $17.99. JS Teri, a high school freshman in a small town in northern California, thinks of herself as "a Nobody." At home, she is overshadowed by...

Browne, N.M. Hunted.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... BROWNE, N.M. Hunted. Bloomsbury. 336p. c2002. 1-58234-759-X. $15.95. JS KAREN has been badly beat up by a gang of jealous girls, and she lies in a coma in the hospital, watched over by her anxious grandmother. Her spirit, however, has...

Cindrich, Lisa. In the shadow of the pali; a story of the Hawaiian leper colony.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... CINDRICH, Lisa. In the shadow of the pali; a story of the Hawaiian leper colony. Penguin, Putnam. 240p. c2002.0-399-23855-7 $17.99. JS Any story about lepers before 20th-century medical breakthroughs is bound to be horrific and depressing,...

Clarke, Judith. Wolf on the fold.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... CLARKE, Judith. Wolf on the fold. Front Street. 169p. c2000. 1-886910-79-0. $16.95. JS Clarke is an acclaimed author of children's books in Australia and this book consists of loosely woven stories in a style not common in YA publications...

Cooney, Caroline B. Goddess of yesterday.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... COONEY, Caroline B. Goddess of yesterday. Random House, Delacorte 264p. maps. c2002. 0-385-72945-6. $15.95. JS This is the most ambitious novel I have read by Cooney, known for her ever-popular works like the series that starts with The...

Corbett, Sue. 12 again.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... CORBETT, Sue. 12 again. Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 227p. c2002.0-525-468994. $16.99. J This is a variation on the theme of the Hanks film Big, in which an adult becomes a 12-year-old. Bernadette McBride, the adult in 12 Again, is a mother of...

Doherty, Berlie. Holly Starcross.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOHERTY, Berlie. Holly Starcross. HarperCollins, Greenwillow. 186p. c2001.0-06-001341-9. $15.99 J Doherty is a popular writer for YAs in England, and this book is set there (and was first published there). I'll get the strikes against it...

Draper, Sharon M. Double Dutch.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DRAPER, Sharon M. Double Dutch. Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 183p. c2002. 0-689-84230-9. $16.00. J Double Dutch, for those who don't know, is a way of jumping rope that demands a high degree of skill and energy. The friends in this YA...

Fama, Elizabeth. Overboard.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... FAMA, Elizabeth. Overboard. Cricket Books, dist. by Publishers Group West. 168p. map. c2002. 0-8126-2652-4. $15.95. J* Fourteen-year-old Emily is living in Sumatra, Indonesia, where her pediatrician parents are working. Emily helps out...

George, Jean Craighead. Tree Castle Island.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... GEORGE, Jean Craighead. Tree Castle Island. HarperCollins. 242p. illus. c2002. 0-06-000254-9. $15.95. J George is known for her novels My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves, in which young people survive in the wild, getting to...

Giles, Gail. Shattering glass.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... GILES, Gall. Shattering glass. The Millbrook Press, Roaring Brook Press. 224p. c2002. 0-7613-2601-4. $22.90. JS Charismatic Rob only arrived in town last year, but he has quickly become the most popular boy in his Texas high school. Thad,...

Haas, Jessie. Shaper.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HAAS, Jessie. Shaper. HarperCollins, Greenwillow. 186p. c2002.0-06-000170-4. $16.95. J* When Chad's beloved dog died back in the fall, he blamed his family for their negligence, and he has been sullen and depressed ever since. He even...

Halam, Ann. Dr. Franklin's island.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HALAM, Ann. Dr. Franklin's island. Random House, Wendy Lamb Books. 250p. c2002. 0-385-90056-2. $14.95. JS When their plane crashes somewhere off the coast of South America, three teenage science students on the way to a wildlife...

Howe, Norma. Blue Avenger and the theory of everything.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HOWE, Norma. Blue Avenger and the theory of everything. Cricket Books. 226p. c2002. 0-8126-2654-0. $17.95. JS In his third outing (following The Adventures of Blue Avenger and Blue Avenger Cracks the Code--reviewed in paperback in this...

Ingold, Jeanette. The big burn.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... INGOLD, Jeanette. The big burn. Harcourt. 200p. bibliog, c2002.0-15-216470-7. $17.00. JS Ingold's novel based on the events of the Big Burn, a massive forest fire in the Northwest in the summer of 1910, is complex, with frequent cutaways...

Jordan, Sherryl. The hunting of the last dragon.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... JORDAN, Sherryl. The hunting of the last dragon. HarperCollins. 189p. map. c2002. 0-06028902-3. $15.95. JS* Few write for YAs with the skill Jordan has at her disposal, as we have seen in her Secret Sacrament and The Raging Quiet. She...

Little, Kimberley Griffiths. The last snake runner.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... LITTLE, Kimberley Griffiths. The last snake runner. Random House, Knopf. 202p. c2002.0-375-81539-2. $15.95. JS Kendall, age 14, treasures his Native American heritage. His beloved great-grandfather had taught him the ancient Acoma tribal...

Marsden, John. Winter.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... MARSDEN, John. Winter. Scholastic. 146p. c2000. 0-439-36849-9. 16.95. JS Most Americans know the Australian writer Marsden for his thrilling series that starts with Tomorrow When the War Began, in which a small group of teenagers stage...

McCaughrean, Geraldine. The kite rider.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... McCAUGHREAN, Geraldine. The kite rider. HarperCollins. 270p. c2001.0-066-238749. $15.95. JS* I would double star this if KLIATT allowed such a thing! And it isn't even really a YA novel as we generally consider them. It's quite amazingly...

Mikaelsen, Ben. Red midnight.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 212p. c2002.0-380-97745-1. $15.95. J Mikaelsen (author of Touching Spirit Bear) tells a dramatic story of a 12-year-old boy and his little sister as they escape the violence in their Guatemalan village and manage to sail up...

Moore, Robin. The man with the silver oar.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 184p. bibliog. c2002. 0-380-978776. $15.95. J This book is an American counterpart to lain Lawrence's The Smugglers and others in that series. It is set in 1718, in Philadelphia, where the Quaker Daniel Collins longs to go to...

Namioka, Lensey. An ocean apart, a world away.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Random House, Delacorte. 200p. c2002. 0-38590053-6. $17.99. JS Yanyan, an outspoken 16-year-old Chinese girl living in Nanjing in 1921. dreams of studying Western medicine and becoming a doctor. She has the support of her father, a worldly...

Peck, Robert. Newton. Horse thief.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 232p. c2002. 0066237920. $16.89. JS "We was only a bunch of boys. Yet with a biting ache to be men, as battered and bowlegged and brawly as the regular rodeo pokes..." This is the beginning of this entertaining novel set in...

Tolan, Stephanie S. Surviving the Applewhites.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 224p. c2002. 0066236037 $15.99. J With his spiked hair, piercings, and allblack clothing, 13-year-old Jake looks the part of the juvenile delinquent he's supposed to be. After all, he burnt down his school (though it was an...

Voight, Cynthia. Bad girls in love.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 240p. c2002. 0-689-82471-8. $15.95. J In this fourth entry in Newbery Medal-winning author Voight's perceptive and amusing Bad Girls series, best friends Mikey and Margalo are now in 8th grade, and experiencing...

Wayland, April Halprin. Girl coming in for a landing: a novel in poems.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Illus. by Elaine Clayton. Random House, Knopf. 144p. c2002. 0-375-901582. $16.99. J A teenage girl tells about the events of a school year, through autumn, winter, and spring, in over 100 pithy, heartfelt poems. We learn about her crushes,...

Wisler, G. Clifton. Kings Mountain.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 159p. map. illus. 06-881-78138. $15.89. J The colonial families settled in the mountains of western North and South Carolina were caught up in the Revolutionary War, which was almost a civil war in that region because so many...

Young, Ronder Thomas. Objects in mirror.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Millbrook, Roaring Brook Press. 168p. c2002. 0-76132600-6. $15.95. JS The premise of this novel is that a person is formed by an accumulation of events and details in his or her life--not just by a few dramatic moments. Young uses the...

Zephaniah, Benjamin. Refugee boy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Bloomsbury 291p. c2001.1-58234-763-8. $15.95. JS This is one of three novels about African immigrants in Great Britain that I have read in the past year. The treatment of political refugees is slightly different there than here in the U.S.,...

Bastedo, Jamie. Tracking Triple Seven.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Red Deer Press. 215p. c2001.0-88995-238-8. $9.95. JSA Grizzlies are fascinating animals, and most of us know very little about them. This book brings us the story of a bear called Triple Seven, with a tracking collar monitored by a group of...

Bell, William. Death wind.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Orca, Soundings. 92p. c2002.1-55143-215-3. $7.95. J With three failing grades, a failed relationship and a missed period eclipsing her future, Allie can't see any way out of trouble but to escape her surroundings. After pinning a goodbye...

Bennett, James. The squared circle.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Scholastic. 247p. c1995. 0-590-48672-1. $4.99. JS* Sonny Youngblood is a natural athlete. Basketball loves him and he loves it. When he leaves high school for college, he finds himself in a maze of academics, fraternities, and athletics--a...

Black, Jonah. Faster, faster, faster.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... (The Black Book; Diary of a Teenage Stud, Vol. IV) HarperCollins, Avon. 215p. c2002.0-06-440801-9. $4.99. S This is the final installment of the tale of teenage Jonah and his zany interactions with school, girls and life. It brings to a...

Cabot, Meg. Princess in the spotlight.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... (The Princess Diaries, Vol. II) HarperTrophy. 264p. c2001. 0-06-447279-5. $5.99. JS* To quote KLIATT's July 2001 review of the hardcover edition: For those who haven't read The Princess Diaries (Vol. 1, reviewed in KLIATT in September...

Carmi, Daniella. Samir and Yonatan.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Scholastic. 183p. c1994. 0-439-13523-0. $4.99. JS * After an accident on his bike, Samir, a young Palestinian boy, is sent to a Jewish hospital to await the arrival of an American surgeon who will repair his leg. At first, surrounded by...

Chiu, Christina. Troublemaker and other saints.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Berkley, 278p. c2001. 0-425-18343-2. $12.95. A Chiu has created a series of short story-like vignettes about three families: the Wongs, the Shengs, and the Tsuis. Chiu's writing is raw, poignant, and realistic. She documents the struggle...

Deaver, Julie Reece. The night I disappeared.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Simon Pulse. 242p. c2002. 0-7434-3979-1. $5.99. JS Jamie Tessman is unhappily ensconced in a private school. She is an underachiever and is in danger of failing her courses and having to repeat a grade. Her mother is a...

DeFelice, Cynthia. Death at Devil's Bridge.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 182p. c2000. 0-06-441037-4. $5.95. J To quote KLIATT's July 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Thirteen-year-old Ben, a year-round resident of Martha's Vineyard, has just landed his first job, as first mate on a charter...

Dessen, Sarah. Dreamland.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 250p. c2000. 0-14-230067-5. $5.99. S To quote KLIATT's January 2001 review of the hardcover edition: When Caitlin's "perfect" older sister unexpectedly runs away with her boyfriend on the morning of Caitlin's 16th...

Dorrestein, Renate. A heart of stone.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Penguin. 244p. c1998. 0-14-200023-X. $13.00. SA The title of this book refers to two things: the heart-shaped stone that marks the graves of Ellen van Bemmel's mother, father, her brother and two sisters, and the state of Ellen's own heart...

Eliot, Eve. Ravenous; the stirring tale of teen love, loss and courage.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HCI, Teens. 342p. c2002.0-7573-0005-7. $12.95. JS In this sequel to Insatiable (reviewed in KLIATT in July 2001), we continue to follow the lives of three high school girls who are struggling with food issues.Phoebe, a size 16, is finally...

Frank, E.R. Life is funny.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 264p. c2000. 0-14-230083-7. $7.95 SA* To quote KLIATT's March 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Eleven teenagers who attend a high school in Brooklyn, NY each relate the story of their sometimes-intertwined lives...

Freymann-Weyr, Garret. When I was older.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 167p. c2000. 0-14-230093-4. $5.99. S* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2000: This is Freymann-Weyr's first YA novel; it's funny, moving, smart. The story is set in Manhattan and the main...

Froese, Deborah. Out of the fire.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Orca, Sumach Press. 282p. c2001. 1-894549-09-0. $7.95. S It's near the end of Dayle's third year in high school and her life seems to be turning around. She is dating Keith, one of most popular boys in school. She has just been accepted...

Glenn, Mel. Split image; a story in poems.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperTempest. 154p. c2000. 0-06-000481-9. $6.95. JS * To quote KLIATT's March 2000 review of the hardcover edition: In the eyes of the Tower High School community, popular student Laura Li appears to be perfect. Most of her peers see...

Goobie, Beth. Sticks and stones.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Orca, Soundings. 86p. c2002. 1-55143-213-7 $7.95. J A failed attempt to tweeze her brows leaves Jujube with only one eyebrow. Thankfully, that doesn't stop Brent Floyd from asking her to the Valentine's dance. Jujube feels honored to be...

Gordon, Noah. The last Jew.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Martin's, Griffin, Thomas Dunne Books. 348p. c2000. 0-312-30053-0. $13.95. SA The Spanish Inquisition went after converted Jews as well as Jews, and the Church would not tolerate anything but complete obedience to its edicts. Those who...

Grimes, Martha. Cold Flat Junction.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, New American Library. 432p. c2001. 0-4510-20523-5. $12.00. SA Emma Graham, a 12-year-old sleuth, is baffled that no one seems concerned about mysterious murders in her small town. She is tenacious and thorough in her...

Harrison, Troon. Goodbye to Atlantis.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Stoddart Kids. 232p. c2001. 0-7737-6229-9. $7.95. J Fourteen-year-old Stella MacLeod is thrilled when she learns that her father is giving her a birthday trip to England. However, she has to travel with her father's strange girlfriend when...

Hart, William. Never fade away, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Fithian Press. 202p. c2002. 156474386-I. $12.95. SA Hart has a Ph.D. in English and teaches basic writing/ESL in California colleges. This is important to know, because this story is about corruption in the California university system in...

Hesse, Karen. Stoway.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Aladdin. 316p. illus. map. c2000. 0-689-83989-8. $6.99. J To quote KLIATT's November 2000 review of the hardcover edition: To escape his disapproving father, his studies, and his apprenticeship to a cruel butcher,...

Hobbs, Will. Down the Yukon.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... (sequel to Jason's Gold). HarperTrophy. 193p. c2001. 0-38043309-9. $5.95. JS A sequel to Jason's Gold, this historical adventure story can stand alone for readers new to Hobbs. The novel is set in the Canadian Klondike of 1899....

Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker; an Alex Rider Adventure.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 192p. c200O. 0698-11934-7 $5.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2001: Agent 007 comes to the middle school! Horowitz, a British writer of thrillers and mysteries for the BBC and a successful...

Howe, Norma. Blue Avenger cracks the code.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperTempest. 358p. c2000. 0-06-44372-4. $6.95. JS As related in the prequel, The Adventures of Blue Avenger, on his 16th birthday a unassuming but idealistic California boy named David Schumacher changed his name to Blue Avenger, and set...

Hrdlitschka, Shelley. Dancing naked.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Orca. 250p. c2001.1-55143-210-2. $6.95. S This story takes place over the nine months of 16-year-old Fda's pregnancy. She loses her virginity with her boyfriend, and though they use a condom, Derek and Kia "must be that lucky one percent...

James, Brian. Pure sunshine.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Scholastic, Push. 160p. c2002. 0-439-27989-5. $6.99. SA Brendon and his high school chums ingest LSD on two successive evenings, roam the streets of Philadelphia, and make valiant attempts to be cool. While the author has done an excellent...

Langton, Jane. Murder at Monticello.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... (A Homer Kelly Mystery) Penguin. 256p. illus. c2001. 0-14200026-4. $5.99. SA The front cover attracts the prospective reader with its declaration, "The president isn't the only one who's dead.... " Jane Langton again sends out her...

Lisle, Janet Taylor. The art of keeping cool.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Aladdin. 250p. 0-689-83788-7. $4.99. J To quote From the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November 2000: Hidden family secrets are the main theme of this novel set during WW II in a small Rhode Island town on the...

Lynch, Chris. Gold dust.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 196p. c2000. 0-06-447201-9. $5.95. JS * It's 1975, and seventh-grader Richard Moncreif, a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan, anxiously awaits a break in the winter weather to begin training for baseball season. When he meets...

Marcom, Micheline Aharonian. Three apples fell from heaven.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Riverhead. 270p. c2001. 1-57322-915-6. $14.00. A Marcom draws from the folk saying: "Three apples fell from heaven, one for the storyteller, one for the listener, and one for the eavesdropper," to tie together the unraveling...

Mickaelsen, Ben. Touching Spirit Bear.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 242p. c2001. 0-380-80560-X. $5.95. JS To quote KLIATT's January 2001 review of the hardcover edition: At age 15, Cole has already been in and out of police stations, detention centers, and residential treatment centers,...

Nye, Robert. Mrs. Shakespeare; the complete works.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Penguin. 216p. c1993. 0-14-200004-4-3. $13.00. A This novel takes the form of 75 entries into a book written by Anne Hathaway Shakespeare, who is living at New Place, Stratford seven years after the death of her husband, William. Mrs....

Olsen, Sylvia, with Rita Morris & Ann Sam. No time to say goodbye; children's stories of Kuper Island Residential School.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Orca, Sono Nis Press. 172p. illus. c2001. 1-55039-121-6. $8.95. JSA In Canada, from the late 19th century to 1978, some 20 percent of Indian (sometimes referred to as "First Nations") children attended residential schools funded by the...

Owens, Louis. Nightblood.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Red River Books. 217p. c1996. 0-8061-3373-2. $14.95. SA Nightland is the area to the west--the source of unknown dangers. Two present-day Cherokees, hunting deer in the Magdalena Mountains, where Geronimo and his...

Paulsen, Gary. The White Fox chronicles; Escape; Return; Breakout.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 282p. c2000. 0-440-41248-X. $5.50. J To quote KLIATT's May 2000 review of Escape: In the year 2057, much of the U.S. has been taken over by the repressive Confederation of Consolidated Republics (CCR). Except...

Rennison, Louise. On the bright side, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god; further confessions of Georgia Nicolson.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Harper Tempest. 260p. c2001. 0-06-447226-4. $6.99. JS * To quote KLIATT's July 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Rennison follows up her hilarious Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging (a 2001 Best Book for YAs, reviewed in...

Rinaldi, Ann. The staircase.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Harcourt. 230p. bibliog. c2000. 0-15-216788-9. $6.00. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November, 2000: Rinaldi is a prolific writer of historical novels for YAs. Here she turns to Santa Fe in the 1870s for the setting....

Rodowsky, Colby. Spindrift.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 136p. c2000. 0-06-4409910. $5.95. J To quote KLIATT's March 2000 review of the hardcover edition: It's the summer after seventh grade, and Cassie is looking forward to spending it the same way she always has in the little...

Sheldon, Dyan. Confessions of a teenage drama queen.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Candlewick. 272p. c1999. 0-76361848-9. $6.99. JS * To quote KLIATT's November 1999 review of the hardcover edition: Flamboyant Mary Elizabeth Cep prefers to be called "Lola." When she unwillingly moves with her mother and her younger...

Shreve, Susan. Goodbye, Amanda the good.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Random House, Dell Yearling. 136p. c2000. 0-44041646-9. $4.99. J To quote KLIATT's January 2000 review of the hardcover edition: "Just months ago, Amanda had been living an ordinary, easy, predictable life... " But now that she has...

Sparks, Beatrice, ed. Kim; empty inside; the diary of an anonymous teenager.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperCollins, Avon. 165p. c2002. 0-380-81460-9. $5.99. S During her senior year of high school, Kim comes to an important personal revelation--she's a few pounds overweight and "empty inside." Bound to a seesaw of emotional ups and downs,...

Swanson, Denise. Murder on sleeping beauty.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... SWANSON, Denise. Murder of a sleeping beauty. (A Scumble River Mystery). Penguin Putnam, Signet Mystery. 263p. c2002. 0-451-20548-0. $5.99. SA School psychologist Skye Denison returned to her hometown of Scumble River, Illinois a few years...

Thompson, Victoria. Murder on Washington Square.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... (A Gaslight Mystery) Berkley, Prime Crime. 326p. c2002. 0-425-18430-7. $6.99. SA Thompson's fourth Gaslight Mystery presents convincing characters of varied classes of a century ago, when crime flourished throughout New York. Detective...

Trembath, Don. The popsicle journal.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... (Harper Winslow series, Bk. 4) Orca. 149p. c2001. 1-55143-1858. $6.95 JS This is the story of Harper Winslow, a young journalist in the small town of Embath. He is really excited about his job and thrilled about the opportunity to learn...

Van Den Brink, H.M. On the water.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Grove Press, dist. by Publishers Group West. 134p. c1998. 0-8021-3895-0. $11.00. A Since he was a toddler, Anton has been obsessed with the river that divides rich from poor in Amsterdam. In the winter of 1944, he nostalgically recalls his...

Whelan, Gloria. Return to the island.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... (Sequel to Once on This Island and Farewell to the Island). HarperTrophy. 185p. c2000. 0-06-440761-6. $5.95. J To quote the review of the hardcover edition in KLIATT, September 2000: Of course, if you have the first two volumes of this...

White, Ruth. Memories of Summer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 186p. c2000. 0-440-22921-9. $5.99. J * To quote KLIATT's July 2000 review of the hardcover edition: In this bittersweet tale about living with mental illness, Summer is not a season, but a pretty 16-year-old...

Williams-Garcia, Rita. Every time a rainbow dies.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... HarperTempest. 166p. c2001. 0-06-4473031. $6.95. S * To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, January 2001 : This is a combination of grit and poetry. Willliams-Garcia uses a slightly more distant third-person narrative to tell...

Wooding, Chris. Kerosene.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... 196p. c1999. 0-439-090.13-X. $6.99. SA This British import offers a vivid and stirring portrait of a boy in crisis. Cal's lifelong friend Joel serves as his only social connection both at school and home, from which Cal's parents are...

Constantine, Storm. The crown of silence.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Tor. 431 p. c2001. 0-312-87365-4. $16.95. SA Shan survives a devastating raid on his village and is apprenticed to the wizard Taropat. Trained in the ways of magic, he is sent to the intrigue-filled city of Mewt and finds himself...

Dalkey, Kara. Reunion.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... (Water, Bk. 2) HarperCollins, Avon. 233p. c2002. 0-06-440809-4. $4.99. JS In this sequel to Ascension (reviewed in KLIATT in May 2002), Nia, of the Blue Fin Clan, must seek the lost Farworlder prince on whom her life is dependent; if she...

Dalkey, Kara. Transformation.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... (Water, Bk. 3) HarperCollins, Avon. 234p. c2002. 0-06-440810-8. $4.99. J * In this conclusion to a trilogy, Nia and Corwin must work together to save their worlds from the evil Ma'el, who would like to rule both earth and water worlds....