Kliatt articles from March 2003

Kliatt archives from March 2003

Why we published "first person fiction".
March 1, 2003... 40 PERCENT IN NEW YORK BORN ABROAD--The New York Times, July 24, 2000 IMMIGRANTS MAKE UP 11 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION OF THE U.S.--U.S. Census, August 6, 2001 NEARLY ONE IN FIVE AMERICANS DOES NOT SPEAK ENGLISH AT HOME.--U.S. Census....

Editors' hardcover YA fiction choices--best of the year.(Bibliography)
March 1, 2003... Here are some outstanding YA novels, reviewed in KLIATT over the last year, which we hope you didn't miss. ALVAREZ, Julia. Before We Were Free. Random House, Knopf. ARMSTRONG, Jennifer & BUTCHER, Nancy. Fire-us Trilogy: The Kindling,...

Atkins, Catherine. Alt ed.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam. 199p. c2003. 0-399-23854-9. $17.99. JS A small group of troubled high school students, threatened with expulsion, are given the alternative of attending an after-school group therapy class: this is their alt ed. The narrator...

Armstrong, Jennifer & Butcher, Nancy. The kiln.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (Fire-Us Trilogy, Book 3.) HarperCollins. 208p. c2003. 0060294132. $16.89. JS* Following The Kindling (reviewed in KLIATT in March 2002) and The Keepers of the Flame (reviewed in November 2002), this concluding volume continues the...

Bauer, Marion Dane. Land of the Buffalo Bones; the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (Dear America series). Scholastic. 221p. illus. c2003.0-439-22027-0. $12.95. J The Dear America series is generally based on fictional characters; in this case. Bauer is writing about her great-grandmother and her own ancestors'...

Brashares, Ann. The second summer of the sisterhood.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (sequel to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants). Random House, Delacorte. 370p. c2003.0-8072-0967-8. $18,00. JS* Another summer and more adventures for the four friends--Bridget, Tibby, Carmen, and Lena--we met in the first book. Yes, the...

Brown, Don. Our time on the river.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Houghton Mifflin, 144p. c2003. 0-618-31116-5. $15.00. J The year is 1968, and Steve's older brother, David, has decided to drop out of college and enlist in the army. Before he ships out to Vietnam in to Vietnam in the fall, the two...

Burgess, Melvin. The ghost behind the wall.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Henry Holt. 176p. c2003. 0-8050-7149-0. $16.95. J Teased for being small for his age, 12-year-old David creates an exciting secret life for himself when he realizes he's just the right size to crawl into the air conditioning ducts in his...

Cabot, Meg. Princess in waiting.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (The Princess Diaries, Vol. IV.) HarperCollins, 240p. c2003. 0-060-09608-X. $16.89. J Fourteen-year-old Mia attends a fancy prep school in New York City, adores her cat, Fat Louie, and her new boyfriend, Michael Moscovitz--and has recently...

Carbone, Elisa. The pack.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Viking. 176p. c2003. 0-670-03619-6. $15.99. J When Akhil first shows up in her English classroom, Becky thinks he is the weirdest person she has ever encountered. The East Indian boy refuses to sit on a chair, and he's...

DeFelice, Cynthia. Under the same sky.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 224p. c2003. 0-374-38032-5. $16.00. J Joe longs for a motorbike for his 14th birthday, but his father says he needs to earn the money for it. So Joe agrees to go to work with the crew of Mexican laborers who travel...

Fleischman, Sid. Disappearing act.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Harper-Collins, Greenwillow. 133p. c2003. 0-06-0519622. $15.99. J This is for the youngest of YAs, and is a charming story of life on the boardwalk of Venice, California. Fleischman has dreamed up a wild story of a brother and sister on the...

Freymann-Weyr, Garret. The kings are already here.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Houghton Mifflin. 149p. c2003. 0618-26363-2. $15.00. JS Freymann-Wehr is part of a new generation of writers for YAs and her first books, My Heartbeat and When I was Older, have received a lot of praise. The Kings are Already Here continues...

Frost, Helen. Keesha's house.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 116p. c2003. 0-374-34064-1. $16.00. JS A new addition to the poetry novel genre, Keesha's House is composed of sonnets and sestinas in both traditional and creative structures. Frost uses these forms to introduce us...

Goodman, Alison. Singing the dogstar blues.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Viking. 261p. c1998. 0670-03610-2. $16.99. JS Joss Aaronson is 17 and a time-travel student at the Centre for Neo-Historical Studies, a position her famous mother bought for her. She is brash and brassy, full of slang and...

Gray, Luli. Timespinners.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Houghton Mifflin. 152p. c2003. 0-618-16412-X. $15.00. J Ten-year-old fraternal twins, Allison and Thadeus "Fig" Caldweller-Newton, expect that their summer will be the same as always, traveling with their Aunt Bijou from the heat of a New...

Harrar, George. Not as crazy as I seem.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Houghton Mifflin. 190p. c2003. 0-618-26365-9. $16.00. J Devon, age 15, likes to have everything lined up just so, to wash his hands often (OK, very often), and to eat certain foods in certain ways. He won't eat in the school cafeteria, or...

Hausman, Gerald & Loretta. Escape from Botany Bay; the true story of Mary Bryant.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Scholastic, Orchard. 220p. c2003. 0-439-40327-8. $16.95. JS This is a historical novel that makes Australian history vividly real. The authors carefully recreate the true story of Mary, so I will use the past tense because Mary did actually...

Hobbs, Will. Jackie's Wild Seattle.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... HarperCollins. 201p. c2003.0-688-17474-4. $15.99. J There is a Web site for SarveyWildlife.org--the organization that inspired Hobbs to create this fictional story of a brother and sister's experiences one summer in Seattle rescuing...

Horniman, Joanne. Mahalia.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Random House, Knopf. 178p. c2001. 0-375-82325-5. $15.95. JS* This novel comes from an Australian writer and is set in Australia, near the rainforests, the coastline, in an especially beautiful place. Mahalia, the baby girl of teenagers Emmy...

Koertge, Ron. Shakespeare bats cleanup.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Candlewick. 116p. c2003. 0-7636-2116-1. $15.99. J In the back cover information on the author, Koertge says that he loves baseball and poetry--and that he was at a game once, writing a poem, when he saw a boy whose father was lecturing him...

Lipsyte, Robert. Warrior Angel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... HarperCollins. 192p. c2003. 0-060-00497-5. $16.89. JS* In this powerful sequel to The Chief, Native American boxer Sonny Bear has achieved his dream of becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history, but he feels lost and empty. His...

Lowry, Lois. The silent boy.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Houghton Mifflin. 192p. illus. c2003. 0-618-28231-9. $15.00. JS Inspired by old photos (reproduced at the beginning of each chapter), Lowry has fashioned an affecting and ultimately tragic tale set nearly a hundred years ago in a small farm...

Lubar, David. Wizards of the game.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Philomel. 176p. c2003. 0-399-23706-2. $16.99. J "Shortly, if the ancient maps were correct, I'd face my sworn enemy...But first, I had to make it through the rest of my third-period geography class." Eighth-grader Mercer...

Mahy, Margaret. Alchemy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Margaret K. McElderry Books. 224p. c2003. 0-689-85053-0. $16.95. JS Roland, age 17, seems to have it all together. He's a prefect at his school, with a pretty girlfriend and a mother who adores him, even if he's haunted...

Mass, Wendy. A Mango-shaped space.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Little, Brown. 220p. c2003. 0-316-62388-7. $16.95. J Mia, age 13, has a secret she has guarded closely. She is concerned that others will regard her as a freak if she admits that sounds, numbers, and letters have color for her When her...

Morris, Gerald. The ballad of Sir Dinadan.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Houghton Mifflin. 245p. c2003. 0-618-19099-6. JS We return with Gerald Morris to another tale from the King Arthur stories, told with wit and imagination. (His other books have been well received, especially The Squire, His Knight, & His...

Myracle, Lauren. Kissing Kate.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 199p. c2003. 0-525-46917-6. $16.99. JS Kate and Lissa have been best friends for four years, ever since being paired in a 7th grade gym class. Going to the movies every Saturday afternoon, sharing secret jokes,...

Pierce, Tamora. Shatterglass.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (The Circle Opens Quartet, Book 4). Scholastic. 368p. c2003. 0-590-39683-8. $16.95. JS In Pierce's preceding series, Circle of Magic, four young mages learned to harness and use their unusual powers. The Circle Opens Quartet features these...

Prose, Francine. After.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... HarperCollins. 330p. 2003. 0-060-08081-7. $15.99. JS This suspenseful story rakes place in a high school after a violent shooting incident (like the one at Columbine High School) occurs in a nearby community. Tom and his friends--called the...

Rapp, Adam. 33 snowfish.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Candlewick Press. 192p. illus. c2003. 0-7636-174-8. $15,99. SA As this grim novel opens, three young people, Custis, Curl, and Boobie, are on the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby. Custis, "dirty and foolish and a nasty little...

Rennison, Louise. Dancing in my nuddy-pants; even further confessions of Georgia Nicolson.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... HarperCollins. 224p. c2003. 0-060-09747-7. $16.89. JS* The irrepressible Georgia is back, and that's cause for celebration for fans of her previous, hilarious titles, Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the...

Strasser, Todd. Thief of dreams.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 176p. c2003. 0-39923135-8. $16.99. J Thirteen-year-old Martin isn't looking forward to Christmas. His parents are heading off to China on business and leaving him with his long-lost Uncle Lawrence, whom...

Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the art of deception.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Random House, Knopf. 272p. c2003. 0-375-81176-1. $15.95. J This is the eighth book about Sammy Keyes, the middle-school sleuth who lives with her grandmother while her mother pursues a film career in Hollywood. For an art project, Sammy...

Weaver, Will. Claws.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... HarperCollins. 240p. c2003.0-060-09474-5. $16.89. JS Life has always gone smoothly for Jed, a popular 16-year-old junior at a Minnesota high school, until the day a "punk chick with pink hair" unexpectedly tells him "Your father is sleeping...

Wein, Elizabeth E. A coalition of lions.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Viking. 210p. c2003. 0-670-03618-8. $16.99. JS This follows The Winter Prince and is part of a planned "ongoing Arthurian cycle." It is quite amazing--and quite demanding of the reader as well. To appreciate the book, the...

Yep, Laurence. The traitor.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1885.) HarperCollins. 310p. c2003. 0-06-027522-7. $16.99. J Yep has continued here with the story of many generations of a Chinese immigrant family, the Young family. The most famous book in the series was...

Zusak, Markus. Getting the girl.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Scholastic, Arthur A. Levine. 272p. c2003. 0-439-38949-6. $16.99. JS Zusak follows up his acclaimed first novel, Fighting Ruben Wolfe (reviewed in KLIATT in March 2001), with another story about the working-class Australian Wolfe family....

Ayres, Katherine. Stealing South; a story of the Underground Railroad.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Random House, Dell, Yearling. 201p. c2001. 0-440-41801-1. $4.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2001: This is a companion book to Ayres' North by Night, which tells of a family, especially the daughter Lucy,...

Bardi, Abby. The book of Fred, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Washington Square Press. 292p. c2001. 0-7434-1194-3. $13.00. SA Fifteen-year-old Mary Fred Anderson is placed in a foster home when her parents are arrested for permitting her second brother to die from lack of needed...

Baskin, Nora Raleigh. What every girl (except me) knows.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Random House, Dell Yearling. 213p c2001.0-440-41852-6. $4.99. J Gabby, motherless since a young age, at age 12 desperately feels the need for a female role model. She even keeps a journal detailing tidbits she picks up along the way from...

Birken, Gary. Plague.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Berkley. 343p. c2002. 0-425-18707-1. $6.99. SA This is a fast-paced, topical story. Annick, the heroine, a French-American pediatric resident, is working at a Long Island hospital. When two unexplained cases of botulism appear she senses...

Brown, Rita Mae. Alma Mater, a novel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Ballantine. 260p. c2001. 0-345-45532-0. $13.95. A The protagonist is a vivacious senior at William and Mary College in 1980. Vic's life seems great. She is about to get engaged and aside from some family financial strains, all is going...

Carbone, Elisa. Storm warriors.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Random House, Dell, Yearling. 168p. c2001. 0-440-418798. $4.99. J Nathan is a 14-year-old African American boy who lives on an island in North Carolina in 1895. He lives with his father and grandfather in a small house located near the Pea...

Card, Orson Scott. Rebekah.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (Women of Genesis), Tor, Forge. 404p. c2002. 0-765-34128-X. $299. SA Card, usually known for his SF and fantasy. continues his series about the women of Genesis here. (Sarah was reviewed in KLIATT. November 2001.) The stories of these...

Chessman, Harriet Scott. Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Plume. 164p. c2001. 0-452-28350-2 $13.00. SA This is a love story, in effect, between noted painter Mary Cassatt and her sister, Lydia. Against the background of 19th-century Paris. Chessman captures the careful balance of affection and...

Coleman, Evelyn. Born in sin.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 265p. c2001. 0-689-85552-4. $5.99. JS To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, March 2001: This is a complicated story about a smart African American girl dreaming of a better life, escaping poverty, her...

Cooney, Caroline B. The Ransom of Mercy Carter.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Random House, Dell, Laurel Leaf. 249p. c2001.0-440-22775-5. $5.50. JS Mercy Carter has seen her family attacked by the Mohawk Indians. She is now a captive after having been marched through hundreds of miles of cold, snowy wilderness. Her...

Crutcher, Chris. Whale talk.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Random House, Dell Laurel Leaf. 220p. c2001. 0-440-22938-3. $5.50. JS* This ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults was reviewed in KLIATT, March 2001: T.J. is a high school senior of mixed race--black, Japanese, and white--living in the...

Dai Sijie. Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Trans. by Ina Rilke. Random House, Anchor. 184p. c2001. 0-385-72220-6. $10.00. SA Sijie's tale takes place during the Cultural Revolution in Communist China of the '60s and '70s. The teenaged protagonist (the reader never learns his name)...

Davis, Cynthia. The Chrysalis.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Greenroom. (12 N. Juniper St., Hampton, VA 23569). 200p. c2001. 0-9712163-0-4. $9.99. JS This lightly Christian novel is surprisingly absorbing. When Christina agrees to work at her aunt's summer camp for underprivileged children, all she...

Durrant, Lynda. Betsy Zane; the rose of Fort Henry.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Random House, DellYearling. 198p. bibliog, c2000. 0-440-41834-8. $4.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2000: The best thing about this historical novel is how rooted it is in a remarkable true story....

Fleischman, Paul. Seek.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 167p. c2001. 0-689-85402-1. $6.99. JS* This ALA Best Book for YAs was reviewed in KLIATT, November 2001 in hardcover: In the form of a pastiche of voices, Fleischman presents the autobiography of a high school...

Freedman, Benedict & Nancy. The search for Joyful.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... (Sequel to Mrs. Mike.) Berkley. 309p. c2002. 0-425-18833-7. $13.00. SA I have to confess that one of the main reasons for my interest in YA literature probably arises from my love of the novel Mrs. Mike when I was an adolescent. Mrs. Mike...

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Takeoffs and landings.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Aladdin. 201p. c2001. 0-689-85543-5. $4,99. JS To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 2001 : Eight years ago, Chuck and Lori's father died in a tractor accident. Since then, they have lived on their...

Keith, Don. The forever season.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (A Deep South Book). Univ. of Alabama Press. 276p. c1995. 0-8173-1242-0. $18.95. SA When the first sentence of a book about football states, "I died exactly the way I lived," a reader is immediately curious about the author's intent. Since...

Kerr, M.E. Slap your sides.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... HarperTrophy. 198p. c2001. 0-06-447274-4. $5.99. JS* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2001: The title is the usual witty one from Kerr, but otherwise this is a straightforward, serious work of historical...

Kilian, Michael. The ironclad alibi.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (A Harrison Raines Civil War mystery). Penguin Putnam. 308p. c2002. 0-425-18823-X. $6.99. SA This is part of a series, a complement to the Grace Monfredo Civil War mysteries KLIATT frequently reviews. Harrison Raines is from Virginia, but...

Lekich, John. The Losers' Club.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Annick Press, dist. by Firefly. 247p. c2002. 1-55037-752-3. $7.95. J Every kid who has been picked on by a bully should read this. Alex and his friends learn to cope with a bully who is polite and considerate in front of adults, but shows...

McGregor, Elizabeth. The ice child.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Onyx. 438p, map. c2002.0-451-41061-0. $7.99. SA It is hard to pigeonhole The Ice Child. Is it a historical novel? Much of the present-day plot revolves around the search for the Franklin Expedition, which disappeared in the...

Moore, Ann. Leaving Ireland.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, New American Library. 378p. c2002. 0-451-20707-6. $13.95. SA If you ever wondered what life was like for immigrants in the big cities of this country during the 19th century and how they made their way in spite of poverty...

NA, An. A step from heaven.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Speak. 160p. c2001. 0-14-250027-5. $7.99. JSA* This is An Na's first novel, certainly exhibiting an "exquisite voice" as stated in The New York Times Book Review. Based partly on her own experiences as an Asian immigrant,...

Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis. Keeper of the light.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Aladdin. 137p. c1997. 0-689-85252-5. $4.99. J This is an absorbing story of a young girl's courage, hard work, and persistence. Faith Sutton is the daughter of a lighthouse keeper on Lake Superior in 1872, and she loves...

Rennison, Louise. Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... HarperCollins, Avon. 234p. c1999. 0-06-052184-8. $6.99. JS* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, March 2000: This funny fictional journal chronicles a year or so in the life of its British protagonist. 14-year-old...

Rennison, Louise. On the bright side, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... HarperCollins, Avon. 228p. c2001. 0-06-052185-6. $6.99. JS* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 2001 : Rennison follows up her hilarious Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging with these new entries from...

Seiffert, Rachel. The dark room.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Random House, Vintage. 278p. c2001. 0-375-72632-2. $13.00. SA* Composed of three novellas arranged chronologically but sharing neither characters nor specific location within Germany, this novel's treatment of the developing images and...

Sheppard, Mary C. Seven for a secret, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Groundwood, dist. by Publishers Group West. 189p. c2001. 0-88899-507-5. $6.95. JS This is a year of big changes for Rebecca. Melinda and Kate. Every summer their big city cousin, Kate, visits the small Newfoundland Island known as Cook's...

Sitomer, Alan Lawrence. The hoopster.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Milk Mug (9190 West Olympic Blvd. Suite 253, Beverly Hills, CA 90212). 158p. c2003. 0-9721682-0-7. $15.95. SA "Sports mirrors life" is the phrase that comes to mind when describing The Hoopster. Basketball--a raw, mind-dominated game...

Straight, Susan. Highwire moon, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Doubleday, Anchor. 306p. c2001. 385-72261-3. $14.00. SA Elvia remembered seeing the "highwire moon" from Sandy Narlette's laundry room window, the moon that sat on the telephone wire, balanced, seemingly able from that point to alter its...

Tullson, Diane. Edge.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Stoddart Kids, dist. by Fitzhenry & Whiteside (195 Allstate Parkway, Markham, Ontario L3R 4T8 Canada). 214p. c2002. 0-7737-6230-2. $6.95. S When Marlie's younger brother Elliott goes missing, Marlie responds by throwing up on the desk of...

Valgardson, W.D. Frances.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Groundwood, dist. by Publishers Group West. 190p. c2000. 0-88899-397-8. $5.95. J Frances lives in Canada with her mother and grandmother. Her mundane life is altered when she discovers a bunch of books written in Icelandic. She is...

Waltman, Kevin. Nowhere fast.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Scholastic, Push. 202p. c2002. 0439-41424-5. $6.99. JS Gary Keeling is 15 and seems to be going nowhere fast. He spends time with his friend Wilson, who loves to tempt Gary to do things he shouldn't. He also enjoys time with his girlfriend...

Whelan, Gloria. Angel on the square.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... HarperTrophy. 293p. c2001. 0-06-440879-5. $6.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 2001 : The reader encounters a young narrator, 12 years old, a spoiled daughter of a Russian countess. Katya is excited about...

Wilson, Jacqueline. Girls in love.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (Book One in the Girls Quartet). Random House. 181p. c1997. 0-440-22957-X. $4.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2002: This series is like a British version of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice series. Here...

Anthony, Piers. Swell foop.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Tor. 374p. c2001. 0-812-57474-5. $6.99. SA Book 25 in the saga of the magic land of Xanth finds the Demon Earth a kidnap victim. If it isn't found, gravity will cease and so will planet Earth and Xanth. And so six adventurers must travel...

Armstrong, Kelley. Bitten.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (Women of the Otherworld, Book 1). Plume. 372p. c2001. 0-452-28348-5. $13.00. A Did you know there were female werewolves? Elena didn't--until she became one. Just after she gets engaged to hunky Clayton, a large pale dog nips her. That...

Audley, Anselm. Heresy, Book 1.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Pocket Books. 530p. c2001. 0-7434-2739-4. $799. SA Political and religious issues clash in this novel of noblemen, clan-driven societies, magic, and tyrannical religion. Young Cathan, son of Count Elnibal II, learns of a discovery that will...

Banks, Iain M. Look to windward.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Pocket Books. 483p. c2000. 0-7434-2192-2. $6.99. A The setting is in the far future on an artificial satellite world called Masaq' Orbital, home to about 50 billion members of the Culture. This story takes place some 800 years after the...

Barron, T.A. The wings of Merlin.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (The Lost Years of Merlin, book five). Berkley, Ace. 284p. c2000. 0-441-00988-3. $6.99. JS The fifth and final installment of the series finds Merlin and all of Fincayra facing a deadly threat from the evil Rhita Gawr, who plans to launch...

Bishop, Anne. Shadows and light.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (Tir Alainn Trilogy, book 2). Penguin Putnam, Roc. 420p. c2002. 0-451-45899-0. $6.99. SA Mortal witches, able to manipulate earth, air, fire and water, are the anchors that keep the Shining Roads open between this world and that of the Fee...

Briggs, Patricia. Dragon blood.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Berkeley, Ace. 275p. c2003. 0-441-01008-3. $6.99. JSA The story picks up from its prequel, Dragon Bones, some years later, with Ward of Hurog Keep having gotten used to being the secret guardian of his own live dragon, Oreg, who is...

Brock, Darryl. Two in the field.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Plume. 382p. c2002. 0-452-28356-6. $14.00. SA* In this sequel to the time travel novel If I Never Get Back, Sam Fowler returns to post-Civil War America and tries to reconnect with a woman fie met in the earlier book. The author feels the...

Chester, Deborah. The queen's gambit.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... (Sword, Ring, and Chalice trilogy, book 2.) Berkley, Ace. 460p. c2002. 0441-00997-2. $7.99. SA The second in a fantasy trilogy, this volume focuses on Pheresa, a young royal aspiring to the throne. Her husband dead, she hopes to be...

Dietz, William C. Deathday.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Berkley, Ace. 355p. c2001. 0-441-00981-6. $750. SA On February 28, 2020, also known as Black Friday, the Zin invade Earth destroying everything in their path. Air Force One is obliterated. The governmental infrastructure is destroyed....