Kliatt articles from March 2002

Kliatt archives from March 2002

Teen Ink, more than you think.
March 1, 2002... A student reviews Profiles in Courage. Another writes with astonishment about the mysteries of fractal geometry. Two teenagers visit Maya Angelou's home for an hour-long chat about life, the universe, and everything else. Still another writes...

Editors' hardcover YA fiction choices.
March 1, 2002... Here are some outstanding YA novels, reviewed in KLIATT over the last year, which we hope you didn't miss. ALMOND, David. Heaven eyes. Random House, Delacorte. BELL, Hilari. A matter of profit. HarperCollins. BENNETT, Cherie &...

Armstrong, Jennifer & Butcher, Nancy. The Kindling.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (Fire-us Trilogy, Bk. 1). HarperCollins. 224p. c2002. 0-06-029411-6. $15.89. JS* Almost five years ago, back in 2002, a terrible virus (Fire-us) swept through the population and swiftly killed almost everyone. The empty streets are now...

Auch, Mary Jane. Ashes of Roses.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Henry Holt. 249p. c2002. 0-8050-6686-1. $16.95. JS This begins as a rather standard coming-to-America story, featuring the Atlantic crossing, the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island-all new, of course, to YA readers who don't know this...

Brenaman, Miriam. Evvy's Civil War.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin, Putnam. 210p. bibliog. 2002. 0-399-23713-5. $18.99. JS Brenaman says in an afterword that she determined to write about the strong women of the South; and her short bibliography contains Drew Gilpin Faust's Mothers of Invention:...

Cabot, Meg. Princess in Love.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (The Princess Diaries, Vol. III). HarperCollins. 236p. c2002. 0-06-029468-X. $15.89. JS* Princess Mia is back, still struggling with life as a freshman at Albert Einstein High School and her crush on her best friend's older brother--not to...

Callan, Annie. Taf, a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Cricket. 248p. c2001. 0-8126-4933-8. $17.95. JS A first novel, and a new voice. Callan is Irish, and a poet. She now lives in Oregon and this story about Taf, a young adolescent, is set in the Northwest, from 1915 until about 1918. The...

Clement-Davies, David. The Sight.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 432p. c2002. 0-525-46723-8. $21.99. JSA In the biting cold of a Transylvanian winter, cubs are born into a wolf pack--cubs destined to play a vital role in the fulfillment of an ancient legend. Larka, born with a...

Clements, Andrew. Things not seen.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Philomel. 252p. c2002: 00-069900. $15.99. J Bobby Phillips, age 15, wakes up one morning, goes to comb his hair in the mirror--and sees no reflection. He's become invisible, and while there are some advantages, like sneaking...

Cohn, Rachel. Gingerbread.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster. 176p. c2002. 0-689-84337-2. $15.95. S Cyd Charisse, age 16, was named for the movie star, and she certainly has sought out drama in her own life: "I will be as wild as I wanna be," she declares. As the book opens, sassy...

Connelly, Neil. St. Michael's scales.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Scholastic, Arthur A. Levine. 320p. c2002. 0-9-194458. $16.95. JS Keegan has suffered under the weight of guilt all his 15 years, blaming himself for the death of his twin brother in infancy and his mother's incarceration in a mental...

Dean, Carolee. Comfort.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin. 230p. c2002. 0-618-13846-3. $15.00. JS The theme of a likeable teenager with impossible parents has near-universal YA appeal, and Kenny is just such a person. He is from a small town in Texas named Comfort, and he wants to...

Elish, Dan. Born too short: the confessions of an eighth-grade basket case.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 152p. c2002: 0-689-84386-0. $16.00. J Matt really likes his best friend, Keith, but it's hard not to feel envious of him. Keith, after all, is a tall "stud/athlete/Adonis," "so studly they used his smile in a...

Freymann-Weyr, Garret. My heartbeat.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin. 160p. c2002. 0-618-14181-2. $15.00. S Fourteen-year-old Ellen has always been "totally madly in love" with her older brother Link's best friend, James. Now she is beginning to realize that Link and James may be in love...

Hawes, Louise. Waiting for Christopher.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Candlewick. 240p. c2002. 0-7636-1371-1. $15.99. J Feena and her mother recently moved from Connecticut to Florida, trying to make a fresh start in life, but pasty, red-haired 14-year-old Feena still feels like a "social outcast." Lonely and...

Hobbs, Will. Wild man island.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 184p. c2002. 0-06-029810-3. $15.89. JS* Hobbs sets this survival story off the coast of Alaska, where he himself has had experience sea kayaking. Andy, the protagonist, tells this in the first person, making the adventure all...

Horowitz, Anthony. Point blank: an Alex Rider adventure.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Philomel. 215p. c2001. 0-399-23621-X. $16.99. J This is the next Alex Rider adventure after Stormbreaker (reviewed in KLIATT in May 2001), which has been identified as a sure bet to interest young adolescents, especially...

Koja, Kathe. Straydog.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 112p. c2002. 0-374-37278-0. $16.00. JS Rachel finds it much easier to relate to the animals at the shelter where she volunteers than to her high school classmates. She is particularly fond of dogs, and when a...

Pierce, Tamora. Cold fire.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (Bk. 3 of The Circle Opens quartet). Scholastic. 368p. c2002. 0-590-39655-2. $16.95. J Daja is one of four teenagers with magical powers whose adventures, as they learn to control their gifts, are chronicled in Pierce's earlier fantasy...

Powell, Randy. Three Clams and an Oyster.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 224p. c2001. $16.00. JS Flint, age 16, is the captain of a four-person Seattle flag-football team called Three Clams and an Oyster. He and his long-time friends Beaterson and Deshutsis are the three Clams; the first...

Rosen, Michael J. ChaseR; a novel in e-mails.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Candlewick. 160p. c2002. 0-7636-1538-2. $15.99. J Chase, age 14, has just moved to rural Ohio with his parents, and he's having a hard time adjusting to country life. In humorous e-mails to his friends back in Columbus and his sister away...

Rottman, S.L. Stetson.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Viking. 214p. c2002. 0-670-035424. $16.99. JS High school senior Stetson, known as Stet, lives for his car, an old Honda Civic he has been lovingly restoring over the last two years. He designs and sells T-shirts and works...

Savage, Deborah, Kotuku.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin. 291p. c2002. 0-618-04756-5. $16.00. JS This is a rather amazing novel, which is enriched by the author's knowledge of the Maori of New Zealand and their connection with the old whaling families of Cape Cod, Massachusetts....

Wyss, Thelma Hatch. Ten miles from Winnemucca.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 129p. c2002. 0-06-029784-0. $15.89. JS Martin gets in his jeep and heads back to Winnemucca, Nevada. Why? His new stepbrother has dumped all his clothes out of the window and Martin hates everything about life in Seattle now...

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever 1793.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Aladdin. 252p. c2000. 0-689-84891-9. JS To quote KLIATT's July 2000 review of the hardcover edition: At the beginning of August 1793, Philadelphia was the largest city in the U.S., with 40,000 residents. Up on High...

Barr, Nevada. Blood lure; an Anna Pigeon novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Berkley. 333p. map. c2001. 0-425-18375-0. $6.99. JSA Blood Lure is mainly for those already familiar with this series of mysteries, each one taking place in a different national park, featuring Anna Pigeon, a park law enforcement officer....

Beatty, Paul. Tuff, a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Random House, Anchor. 259p. c2000. 0-385-72111-0. $13.00 A Meet Winston "Tuff" Foshay--at 22, he's seen a lot of the way the world works from the streets of East Harlem. One thing he never thought he'd see, though, was himself on a city...

Black, Jonah. Run, Jonah, run.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud, Vol. III). HarperCollins, Avon. 216p. c2001. 0-06-440800-0. $4.99. S In this final volume of a trilogy, Jonah reveals in his diary his life up to the minute in a brutally honest yet humorous style....

Bowler, Tim. River boy.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Simon Pulse. 234p. c1997. 0-689-84804-8. $4.99. JS To quote KLIATT's July 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Jess, age 15, loves her artist grandfather, although he is cantankerous and stubborn. When he suffers a...

Cadnum, Michael. The book of the lion.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Puffin. 204p. c2000. 0-14-230034-9. $8.99. JSA To quote KLIATT's May 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Young Edmund is an apprentice to a moneyer, a man who mints coins for King Richard in medieval Nottingham. But...

Dahl, Michael. The coral coffin.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (A Finnegan Zwake mystery). Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 166p. c2002. 0-7434-1698-8. $4.50. J 13-year-old Finn is searching for his archeologist parents, who were last seen in Iceland working on a project. Two skeletons found there give their...

Dalby, Liza. The tale of Murasaki.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Random House, Anchor. 462p. maps. c2000. 0-385-49795-4. $14.00. SA Liza Dalby, who first fell in love with Japan during a high-school exchange year, became the only Westerner to mare music on her shamisen as a geisha, a professional...

Davis, Thulani. 1959; a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Grove Press. 297p. c1992. 0-8021-3831-4. $13.00. SA Two years after the battle for the desegregation of a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, the schools and businesses in Turner, Virginia, remained separate and unequal. Told from the...

Delbanco, Nicholas. What remains.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Warner. 200p. c2000. 0-446-87779-5. $13.95. SA In a distinctly European tone, a German Jewish family's past unfolds as each member recounts defining moments in their lives. While the narrative skips back and forth from 1984 to 1944 and then...

Doherty, P.C. The Horus killings.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Ancient Egyptian Mysteries). Berkley, Prime Crime. 276p. c1999. 0-425-18293-2. $6.50. A Lord Amerotke, Chief Justice of Egypt, has long been feared by Theban criminals who must face his justice in The 1 Hall of Two Truths. Queen Hatusu...

Hite, Sid. Stick & Whittle.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Scholastic. 202p. c2000. 0-439-09829-7. $4.99. JS The chances of two men turning up in the same place with the name of Melvin is most unusual. But that is exactly what happens in this light and fun little Western. Twenty-something Melvin...

Humphreys, Josephine. Nowhere else on earth.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin. 342p. c2000. 0-14-100206-9. $14.00. SA While this historical novel of Rhoda and Henry Berry Lowrie begins slowly and confusingly, it quickly becomes addictive. The story, told through Rhoda's voice, is beautifully written....

Kent, Deborah. Don't cry for tomorrow.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (Why Me?). Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 172p. c2002. 0-7434-0033-X. $4.99. J Amber Novak was having a really bad day when the principal gave her a grandmother sweater to cover up her inappropriate outfit. The day becomes amazing when the boy...

Kerr, M.E. What became of her.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 244p. c2000: 0-06-447210-8. $5.95. JS To quote KLIATT's July 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Rosalind Slaymaster grew up in the small town of Serenity, PA, where she was picked on and miserable. Now that she is...

Kilian, Michael. A killing at Ball's Bluff.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery). Berkley. 374p. c2001. 0-425-18314-9. $6.50. SA This mystery closely follows the events of the first one in the series, Murder at Manassas. The battle at Manassas had been lost by the Union because of...

Lamazares, Ivonne. The sugar island.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin, Mariner. 206p. c2000. 0-618-15454-x. $12.00. SA Growing up in poverty with a dysfunctional and irresponsible mother and an artistically gifted younger sibling are not unusual trappings for YA fiction. However, this novel's...

Lester, Julius. Pharaoh's daughter; a novel of ancient Egypt.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 182p. bibliog. c2000: 0-06-440969-4. $5.95. JS* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2000: Lester is an award-winning author for YAs who is a professor at the University of Massachusetts; among other...

Moriarty, Jaclyn. Feeling sorry for Celia.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... St. Martin's, Griffin. 278p. c2000. 0-312-28736-4. $12.95. JS* To quote KLIATT's March 2001 review of the hardcover edition: This fresh and funny Australian novel tells of the increasingly complex life of teenager Elizabeth Clarry....

Nevin, David. Eagle's cry.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tor, Forge. 600p. c2000. 0-812-52472-1. $7.99. SA Reminiscent of the John Jakes historical novels, this one starts at Mount Vernon in 1799 as George Washington nears death, and ends on Jan. 7, 1804 after a turbulent five-year period. The...

Quinn, Daniel. The man who grew young.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Context Books. (368 Broadway, Suite 314, New York, NY 10013). 97p. illus. c2001. 1-893956-17-2. $19.95. SA Adam, the "man who grew young," does so in a prolonged series of comic strip frames. Based upon the premise that life begins with...

Randle, Kristen D. Breaking rank.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... HarperTempest. 262p. c1999: 0-380-73281-5. $6.95. S To quote KLIATT's May 1999 review of the hardcover edition: Thomas, known as Baby, is a member of the Clan, a group of young men who dress in black, keep to themselves, and refuse to...

Reiken, Frederick. The lost legends of New Jersey.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Harcourt. 318p. c2000. 0-15-601094-1. $13.00. SA This tells the story of Anthony Rubin, a Jewish boy growing up in and around Livingston during the 1980s. His life is messy. His mother is given to fits, his father is a philanderer, his...

Roe, Caroline. A potion for a widow.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Chronicles of Isaac of Girona). Berkley, Prime Crime. 270p. c2001. 0-425-18365-3. $6.50. SA Again the reader finds Isaac the physician in medieval Spain with a mystery to solve. This time Isaac is not as involved as other characters, such...

Scott, Joanna Catherine. The Lucky Gourd Shop.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Pocket Books, Washington Square Press. 296p. c2000. 0-743-3735-7. $13.00. SA* When the author's adopted children, three siblings from Korea, reached adolescence, they wanted to search back to their birth roots from the orphanage from which...

Sharp, Paula. I loved you all; a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Hyperion. 384p. c2000. 0-7868-8615-3. $13.95. SA An eight-year-old rebel named Penny serves as the narrator in this novel in which a dysfunctional family comes face to face with the abortion controversy and right-to-life politics. Penny and...

Shreve, Susan Richards. Plum & Jaggers.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Martin's, Picador. 228p. c2000. 0-312-42025-0. $13.00. SA A terrorist bomb explodes in the lunch car of a train between Milan and Rome. Among the dead are the parents of four children who survive the crash and are cared for by a local...

Smith, Deborah. On Bear Mountain.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Warner. 402p. c2001. 0-446-61067-4. $6.99. SA To quote KLIATT's review of the Brilliance audiobook edition: The setting for this unusual romance switches between Brooklyn and the Georgia mountains. The link that draws the two...

Thoene, Bodie & Brock. Thunder from Jerusalem.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (The Zion Legacy series, Bk. 2.). Penguin. 308p. c2001. 0-14-100218-2. $13.00. SA Jerusalem in May 1948 was not a peaceful, quiet place. In fact, despite declaring its independence, Israel was in a fight for its life. British and Arab...

Trout, Richard. Falcon of Abydos; oracle of the Nile.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (MacGregor Family Adventures, Bk. 3). Langmarc Publishing (7500 Shadowridge Run, #28, Austin, TX 78749). 268p. c2001. 1-880-292-73-4. $11.95. J This is the third adventure for the traveling MacGregor family. We find them in Cairo,...

Wiseman, Eva. My canary yellow star.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tundra Books, dist. by McClelland & Stewart. 232p. illus. c2001. 0-88776-533-5. $6.95. JS Fifteen-year-old Maria lives in Budapest in 1944. Along with other Jews, she watches powerlessly as she and her family suffer the harsh consequences...

Woodson, Jacqueline. Miracle's boys.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 131p. c2000. 0-698-11916-9. $5.99. J* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2000: This is a brief novel about three brothers, orphans, who are trying to get along without their parents. The narrator...

Yolen, Jane & Harris, Robert J. Queen's own fool, a novel of Mary Queen of Scots.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 390p. c2000. 0-698-119184. $7.99. JS* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November 2000: To be frank, most of my knowledge of the historical period this book covers comes from two films: Elizabeth and...

Barron, T.A. The mirror of Merlin.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (Bk. 4 of The Lost Years of Merlin). Berkley, Ace. 288p. c1999. 0-441-00846-1. $6.99. JS This fourth book in the series has young Merlin leaping (teleporting) himself and two friends into the wilds of the Haunted Marsh. There he encounters...

Card, Orson Scott. Shadow of the Hegemon.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (Ender series). Tor. 452p. c2000. 0-812-56595-9. $6.99. JSA The sixth in the Ender series, this takes up Bean's story where Ender's Shadow left off. Achilles has kidnapped all of Ender's jeesh except Bean and is planning to use them to...

Cusick, Richie Tankersley. The house next door.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 254p. c2002. 0-7434-1838-7. $4.99. S* In this intense and riveting ghost story, contemporary Emma Donovan is pulled into the long-ago life of Emma Farmington, who lived in the now-deserted house next door. Emma...

David, Peter. Restoration.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Frontier, #11 Excalibur Bk. 3). Pocket Books. 410p. c2001. 0-7434-1064-5. $6.99. JSA Restoration completes the three-volume Excalibur adventure (along with Requiem and Renaissance). This third volume ties up the loose ends from the two...

DeCandido, Keith R.A. Demons of air and darkness.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gateways. Book 4 of 7). Pocket Books. 292p. c2001. 0-7434-1852-2. $6.99. JSA This volume concerns the efforts of the inhabitants of Deep Space Nine to deal with problems caused by the Iconian gateways. This...

Doohan, James & Stirling, S.M. The independent command.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (The Flight Engineer, Vol. 3). Baen. 408p. c2000. 0-671-31851-9. $7.99. JSA The human race is in dire peril, harried by renegade humans called Mollies who are intent on crippling Earth's colonization of other worlds. Their strategy is to...

Due, Tananarive. The living blood.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (sequel to My Soul to Keep). Pocket Books, Washington Square Press. 515p. c2001. 0-671-04084-7. $14.00. SA This supernatural thriller continues the story of reporter Jessica Jacobs-Wolde, four years after the death of her first child and...

Flewelling, Lynn. The bone doll's twin.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Bantam, Spectra. 524p. c2001. 0-553-57723-9. $6.99. SA As part of the pact that kept the kingdom of Skala prosperous, only women would be allowed to rule there. All goes well until Erius usurps his sister's throne with plans to begin his...

Greenberg, Martin H. & Segriff, Larry, eds. Past imperfect.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... DAW. 320p. 314p. c2001. 0-7564-0012-0. $6.99. JSA If I were a character in one of the stories in Past Imperfect and was late in submitting a review to KLIATT, I wouldn't worry. I'd just write the review, travel back in time and turn it in...

Greenberg, Martin H. & Segriff, Larry, eds. Silicon dreams.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... DAW. 320p. c2001. 0-7564-0018-X. $6.99. SA Segriff states in the introduction that, "For mankind as a species, our children will be robots." Although I'm not sure I agree with his premise, the 12 stories here are an excellent...

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Turnabout.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Aladdin. 232p. c2000. 0-689-84037-3. $5.99. JS To quote KLIATT's Nov. 2000 review of the hardcover edition: In the year 2000, two feisty elderly women are among the nursing home residents selected to be in a...

Hogan, James P. The legend that was Earth.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Baen. 504p. c2000. 0-671-31840-3. $7.99. A When the Hyadeans begin trading with Earth, it looks like a win-win situation. The Hyadeans have high-tech products, and the Earth attracts the aliens with its legendary diverse geography and...

Lackey, Mercedes & Edghill, Rosemary. Beyond world's end.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (Bedlam's Bard series). Baen. 402p. c2000. 0-671-31855-1. $7.99. SA Any time a flute-playing bard can save the world through music, I'm happy. In this book, part of a series about Eric Banyon, a Bard with magic powers, Eric leaves the...

Lassiter, Rhiannon. Hex.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Pocket Books, Archway. 244p. c1998. 0-7434-2211-2. $4.99. JS Born with a genetic mutation that allows them to interface directly with computers, the Hex are banned by law and hunted like animals by the government. To be a Hex and to be...

Lee, Tanith. White as snow.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (The Fairy Tale series). Tor. 320p. c2000. 0-312-87549-5. $14.95. SA The story of Snow White is told here through the filter of the Demeter/Persephone myth. Arpazia, a pampered princess, is taken as a war prisoner, raped and forced to...

Little, Denise, ed. A constellation of cats.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... DAW. 308p. c2001. 0-7564-0016-3. $6.99. SA This is a collection of short stories, 13 in all, about cats. If the reader is versed in SF or fantasy, many of the authors will be familiar. One of my favorites was "Mu Mao and the Court Oracle"...

Logue, Mary. Dancing with an alien.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... HarperTempest. 136p. c2000. 0-06-447209-4. $6.95. JS* To quote KLIATT's May 2000 review of the hardcover edition: What happens when guys and girls don't just act like they're from different planets--they actually are from different...

Moon, Elizabeth. Against the odds.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Baen. 530p. c2000. 0-671-31850-0. $7.99. JSA Set in a universe with previous books and continued characters, the Familias Regnant is a political system of long-established families with nobles and peasants, with their own shipping fleets,...

Viehl, S.L. Shockball.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (A StarDoc novel). Penguin Putnam, Roc. 410p. c2001. 0-451-45855-9. $6.99. A Fourth in the series of Stardoc SF medical thrillers, this novel finds our heroine Cherijo and her new husband, Duncan Reever, once again on the run from her...

Vinge, Joan D. Tangled up in blue.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tor. 294p. c2000. 0-812-57636-5. $6.99. SA When are the cops the good guys and when are they bad? And how can you tell the difference? Police officers Nyx LaisTree and his brother are set up to take the fall for a failed contraband raid. In...

Vornholt, John. The Genesis Wave, book two.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... (Star Trek: The Next Generation). Pocket Books. 294p. c2001. 0-7434-1183-8. $6.99. JSA This second volume in the exciting Genesis Wave series (not in the numbered Star Trek series) provides answers to the mysteries left hanging in the...

Estleman, Loren D., ed. American West; twenty new stories from the Western Writers of America.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tor, Forge. 368p. c2001. 0-312-87281-X. $15.95. SA Twenty stories from the Western Writers of America, including Loren D. Estleman, Max Evans, Don Coldsmith, and others, portray many varied characters. Some are based on true stories, like...

Abbe, Elfrieda, ed. The writer's handbook 2002.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Watson-Guptill, The Writer Books. 1056p. index. c2001. 0-87116-189-3. $29.95. JSA This wonderful collection of inspirational essays, practical techniques, and market listings includes just about all the information any aspiring writer...

Altmann, Anna E. & De Vos, Gail. Tales, then and now; more folktales as literary fictions for young adults.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Libaries Unltd. 296p. indexes. c2001. 1-56308-831-2. $37.50. SA* Tales, Then and Now is a companion to Airman and Vos's earlier volume New Tales for Old: Fotktales as Literary Fictions for Young Adults, and it is a valuable resource for...

Axelrod, Alan & Oster, Harry. The Penguin dictionary of American folklore.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Penguin. 527p. illus. bibliogs: c2000. 0-14-100240-9. $18.00. SA* Over 750 entries describe aspects of American folklore, ranging from the contributions of various cultures to the scholars in the field to artists, musicians, writers and...

Johnson, Alexandra. Leaving a trace; on keeping a journal; the art of transforming a life into stories.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Little, Brown, Back Bay Books. 242p. c2001. 0-316-12156-8. $13.95. SA Alexandra Johnson begins her work with the comment by Eudora Welty that "All serious daring starts within." That quote is one that Johnson undoubtedly copied into a...

Owens, Louis. Mixed blood messages; literature, film, family, place.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Red River Books. 263p. notes. bibliog. index. c1998. 0-8061-3381-3. $14.95. SA Readers and teachers of Native American literature, looking for a scholarly picture of its fiction, will want to add this title to their...