Kliatt articles from March 2004

Kliatt archives from March 2004

Understanding the power of fan fiction for young authors.
March 1, 2004... Somehow, within thirty seconds of meeting me, people man age to find out I'm obsessed with Harry Potter. I'm not quite sure how it happens. I try to resist. After all, I'm 42 years old and I have no kids to blame it on. But, here we are and...

Adoff, Jaime. Names will never hurt me.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 187p. c2004. 0-525-47175-8. $15.99. JS Adoff's poetry has grown from the free-flowing rhythmic verse of his first collection of music poetry to a complex chorus of four voices telling the gritty back-story of high...

Bennett, Cherie & Gottesfeld, Jeff. A heart divided.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Random House, Delacorte. 309p. c2004. 0-385-32749-8. $15.95. JS * Bennett and Gottesfeld have collaborated on fiction, plays, and other writing projects. Bennett is the author of the ALA Best Book for YAs, Life in the Fat Lane, and together...

Bloor, Edward. Story time.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Harcourt. 424p. c2004, 0-15-204670-4. $17.00. J When George and Kate are admitted to the elite Whittaker Magnet School as part of the county's "Leave No High-Scoring Child Behind Program," they have high expectations, as the school has the...

Bowler, Tim. Firmament.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster, McElderry Books, 320p. c2004. 0-689-86161-3. $16.95. J When we first meet Luke, age 14, he's about to break into a woman's house, egged on--indeed, threatened--by a nasty gang of boys. But he keeps hearing a girl weeping,...

Brooks, Kevin. Kissing the rain.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Scholastic, The Chicken House. 336p. c2004. 0-439-57742-X. $16.95. JS British teenager Michael Nelson, cruelly nicknamed "Moo" because he is overweight, finds sanctuary from the teasing and bullying at school--he calls it "the rain"--in...

Cabot, Meg. Princess in pink.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (The Princess Diaries, Vol. V). HarperCollins. c2004. 256p. 0-06-009610-1. $15.99. (Library: 0-06-009611-X, $16.89). JS Starting a new Princess Diaries book is like opening a box of chocolates. It's springtime in Manhattan, and high school...

Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone does my shirts.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin, Putnam. 240p. c2004. 0-399-23861. $15.99. J Jobs are hard to come by in 1935, so Moose's father doesn't hesitate to move his family to Alcatraz when he gets work as a guard there. Moose, age 12, is far from pleased, though. His...

Cohn, Rachel. Pop princess.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster. 311p. c2004. 0-689-85205-3. $15.95. JS * Sexy cover art--the midriff of a lovely girl with a rhinestone in her navel: pop princess indeed. Cohn is the author of the acclaimed Gingerbread and knows how to relate to the YA...

Corrigan, Eireann. Splintering.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Scholastic. 184p. c2004. 0-439-53597-2. $16.95. S A work of fiction, told through poetry, this is a powerful story of a family splintering apart because of an act of violence. A brother and a sister share the narrative in alternating poems....

Easton, Kelly. Walking on air.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster, 233p, c2004. 0-689-84875-7. $16.95, J Easton, author of The Life History of a Star, gives us the story of an amazingly precocious 12-year-old girl who is living an unusual life. It is 1931, and the economy is terrible in...

Fisher, Catherine. The oracle betrayed.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins, Greenwillow. 341p. c2004. 0-06-057157-8. $16.99. JS Blending the mythology of Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, Fisher has created a society where the god speaks through an oracle, and a select group of nine masked...

Flinn, Alex. Nothing to lose.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins. 288p. c2004. 0-06-051750-6. $15.99. (Library: 0-06-051751-4. $16.89.) S A year ago, Michael ran away from his Florida home to become a carny, running the Whack-a-Mole game and trying to leave behind the memory of his...

Garner, Graham. Inventing Elliot.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Dial. 192p. c2004. 0-8037-2964-2. $16.99. J Elliot is starting at a new school, Holminster High, and he is determined not to be bullied as he was at his old school. Home life is miserable enough, with his father an invalid...

Greene, Bette. I've already forgotten your name, Philip Hall!(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins. 167p. c2004. 0-06-051835-9. $15.99. J Readers of Greene's other Philip Hall books will he happy to meet up with 11-year-old Beth Lambert again. In this installment, she's fresh from a visit to her grandmother's in Walnut...

Hartinger, Brent. The Last Chance Texaco.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins. 227p. c2004. 0-06-050912-0. $15.99. JS The author writes at the end of the book, "My stint as a group home counselor was short, but long enough for me to come to profoundly respect the dedication and the great sacrifices of...

Hassinger, Peter W. Shakespeare's daughter.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins, Laura Geringer Books. 311p. c2004. 0-06-02846706. $15.99. JS Remember Shakespeare in Love? The screenwriter of that film gave us a young Shakespeare with boundless energy, chasing fame, falling in love. Well, Hassinger (with...

Hobbs, Will. Leaving Protection.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins. 192p. map. c2004. 0-688-17475-2. $15.99. (Library: 0-06-051632-1. $16.89.). JS Robbie has been raised in tiny Port Protection, Alaska, but now that he's 16 he's eager to leave home to work on a salmon troller, both to mare...

Hoobler, Dorothy & Thomas. In darkness, death.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Philomel. 208p. c2004. 0-399-23767-4. $16.99. J * The suspenseful adventures of Seikei, 14-year-old samurai apprentice to Judge Ooka in early 18th-century Japan, continue in this sequel to The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn and...

Horowitz, Anthony. Eagle Strike.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (An Alex Rider Adventure). Penguin, Philomel. 272p. c2003, 2004. 0-399-239-23070-0. $17.99. J This fast-paced James Bond-style action/ adventure tale begins with an assassination in the Amazon jungle and then fast-forwards 15 years....

Koja, Kathe. The blue mirror.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 119p. c2004. 0-374-30849-7. $16.00. S Koja writes with great artistry--her words sometimes work as brushes creating paintings; her prose is close to poetry. This works well in her acclaimed YA novel Buddha Boy,...

Lowry, Lois. Messenger.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Houghton Mifflin. 176p. c2004. 0-618-40441-4. $16.00. JS * Lowry returns to the alternate universe (or post-apocalyptic world) of The Giver and Gathering Blue for this parable about a utopian village at the edge of a forest. Young Matty...

Manning, Sarra. Guitar girl.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin, Dutton. 217p. c2003. 0-525-47234-7. $15.99. S What are the odds that I would be reviewing two books about teenage girls who become fabulously famous rock stars--in the same issue? (See Pop Princess, above.) Guitar Girl is set in...

McNaughton, Janet. The earthly knight.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins. 261p. c2004, c2003. 0.06-008992-X. $15.99. JS McNaughton has a Ph.D. in folklore and her attention to detail in this historical fiction is careful and impressive. The story is set in Scotland in 1162, and the focus is on two...

Mikaelsen, Ben. Tree Girl, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins. c2004. 0-06-009004-9. $16.99. JS Mikaelsen writes of events during the bitter civil war in Guatemala in the 1980s, based on a story told to him by a survivor of this war The narrator, Gabriela, is living in a small Mayan...

Minchin, Adele. The beat goes on.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Simon & Schuster. 208p. 2004. 0-689-85611-9. $15.95. JS This is a worthy book, about the family crisis that develops when a teenager, Emma, is diagnosed with H.I.V. The narrator is Emma's cousin, Leyla, from a working class English family....

Morris, Gerald. The princess, the crone, and the dung-cart knight.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (The Squire Tales). Houghton Mifflin. 310p. c2004. 0-618-37823-5. $15.00. JS Here we are again, in Gerald Morris's wonderfully realized world of King Arthur. Sarah is lurking in a forest, trying to survive after the horrible death of her...

Myracle, Lauren. ttyl.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Abrams, Amulet. 209p. c2004. 0-8109-4821-4. $15.95. JS This novel claims to be the first written entirely in email messages. The novelty of that, especially for teenagers who communicate with their friends everyday through e-mail and...

Newbery, Linda. Sisterland.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Random House, David Fickling Books. 370p. c2004. 0-385-75026-9. $15.95. S This is a lengthy story, for a YA novel, and it is a complex family situation. Hilly's life changes when her mother's mother, known to the family as Heidigran, comes...

Rinaldi, Ann. Mutiny's daughter.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins. 220p. bibliog. c2004. 0-06-029638-0. $15.99. J Fletcher Christian, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft--these are names readers may not be familiar with. but this story will be an introduction to them. The main...

Sleator, William. The boy who couldn't die.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Harry N. Abrams, Amulet Books. 176p. c2004. 0-8109-4824-9. $16.95. JS When 16-year-old Ken's best friend is killed in a plane crash, Ken is so shaken that he decides he will do anything to become invulnerable. He answers an ad in the back...

Taylor, G.P. Shadowmancer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam. 300p. c2003. 0-399-24256-2. $16.99. JS Taylor, a Yorkshire parson himself, tells a tale of a small-town vicar with ambitious aspirations who ultimately sells his soul for power. Parson Demurral, the vicar of Whitby, is...

Thurlo, Aimee & David. The spirit line.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin, Viking. 222p. c2004. 0-670-03645-5. $15.99. JS Crystal Manyfeathers' upcoming 15th birthday will be bittersweet. She will undergo the Navaho Kinaalda ritual that marks her passage into adulthood, and she will experience the first...

Werlin, Nancy, Double helix.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Dial. 256p. c2004. 0-8037-2606-6. $15.99. SA Eli, just graduating from high school, has been offered a job as a lab assistant at Wyatt Transgenics. It sounds like a great position, but his father doesn't want him to take it...

Westerfeld, Scott. The secret hour.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (Midnighters #1). HarperCollins. 296p. c2004. 0-06-051951-7 $15.99. JS As the new girl in Bixby, Oklahoma, Jessica Day is more concerned with adjusting to her new surroundings than making friends, but Dess, a Goth girl hiding behind dark...

Whelan, Gloria. Chu Ju's house.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Harper-Collins. 230p. c2004. 0-06.050724-1. $15.99. JS This story takes place in China of the last decade, the principal theme being the difficulties for a family that has two daughters. When Chu Ju's little sister is born, the grandmother...

Zeises, Lara M. Contents under pressure.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Random House, Delacorte. 244p. c2004. 0-385-73047.0. 15.95. JS * Zeises. author of Bringing up the Bones, another fine YA novel, writes here about a loving family trying their best, but under pressure. The narrator, Lucy, is a freshman in...

Barnes, Kim. Finding Caruso.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Berkley. 302p, c2003, 0-425-193934. $14.00. SA Seventeen-year-old Buddy Hope's childhood comes to an abrupt halt when he and big brother Lee are orphaned by a fatal car accident caused by their alcoholic father. They...

Coady, Lynn. Saints of Big Harbour, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Houghton Mifflin. 328p. c2002. 0-618-38045-0. $13.00. SA Set in the fictional town of Big Harbour. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, this novel is a coming-of-age story about Guy Boucher. His mother, Marianne, works as a housekeeper and is well rid...

Clark, Catherine. Frozen rodeo.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins,Tempest. 287p. c2003.0-06-447385-6. $6.99. JS To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, January 2003: Fleming (named for Peggy Fleming, by her figure-skating father) is spending the summer before her senior year of...

Clarke, Kathryn Ann. The breakable vow.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins, Avon, 471p. c2004. 006-051821-9. $6.99. SA The clear intent of this novel, elaborated through an appendix of factual information and advice, is to demonstrate how insidious domestic violence can be and to offer a model for...

Cruz, Maria Colleen. Border crossing.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Arte Publico Press, Univ. of Houston. 122p. c2003. 1-55885-405-3. $9.95. J Twelve-year-old Cesi decides to go to Tijuana in order to better understand her father. For years, Cesi has wondered why he isn't more forthcoming about his own...

Doyle, Brian. Boy o'Boy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Groundwood. 161p. c2003.0-88899-590-3. $12.95. SA This clear, well-written novel about a boy's life in 1945 Ottawa is the type of child's-eye-view piece usually marketed to adults. Observations and episodic events outweigh any overarching...

Earls, Nick. 48 Shades of brown.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Houghton Mifflin, Graphia. 274p. 1999. 0-618-452958. $6.99. S To quote from the review of the audio-book in KLIATT, January 2003: This Australian coming-of-age novel is both funny and poignant. When his father is given a one-year assignment...

Elliott, L.M. Under a war-torn sky.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Hyperion. 284p. c2002.0-7868-1753-4. $5.99. JS* This first novel by L.M. Elliot is an emotional, action-packed gem! Henry Forester is a 19-year-old farm boy far from home. He's a pilot in an American Air Force squadron in Europe fighting...

Fogelin, Adrian. Anna Casey's place in the world.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Peachtree. 207p. c2001.1-58145295-5. $6.95. J Anna Casey, at 12, has wisdom. Unfortunately, she had to gain this wisdom through her journey as an orphan from one home to another. Fortunately, she is willing to share her wisdom with Eb, the...

Gregory, Kristiana. A grateful harvest.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (Prairie River). Scholastic. 192p. c2003. 0-43943993-0. $4.99. J The story of orphaned Vanessa Clemens, which began the Prairie River series with A Journey of Faith, continues in A Grateful Harvest. Age 14, Nessa lives with Mrs. Lockett,...

Griffin, Adele. Amandine.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Hyperion. 199p. c2001.0-7868-1441-1. $6.99. JS * It's never easy starting at a new school, and starting mid-year is even worse. Overweight freshman Delia Blaine can't even find comfort in her cultured but aloof parents, who continually find...

Guzman, Lila & Rick. Lorenzo's revolutionary quest.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Univ. of Houston, Pinata Books. 170p. c2003. 1-55885-392-8. $9.95. JS Lorenzo Bannister, 16 years old and a captain in George Washington's Continental Army, goes on a mission to get 500 head of cattle from the Spanish in Texas to help feed...

Harfenist, Jean. A brief history of the flood.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Random House, Vintage. 212p. c2002. 0-375-71335-2. $12.00. SA In the normal world of parents and children, parents are the usual nurturers, but the Andersons of Acorn Lake, Minnesota are anything but normal. Daily living is both haphazard...

Holeman, Linda. Search of the Moon King's daughter.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Tundra. 308p. c2002. 088776-609-9. $9.95. JS This historical fiction provides a realistic look at the grim world of laborers in England during the early Industrial Age, as the decline of Emmaline Roke's family's fortunes is traced over a...

Holtwik, Ineke. Asphalt angels.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Front Street. 187p. c1999. 1-886910-43-X. $7.95. SA Life on the streets of Rio de Janeiro is tough and rough, but 13-year-old Alex must find ways to survive. After the death of his mother, Alex takes to the streets to avoid the violence and...

Jin, Ha. The crazed, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Random House, Vintage. 323p. c2002. 0-375-71411-1. $13.95. SA It is 1989 and Jian wan is a graduate student at a provincial Chinese university with his life well planned. He is going to marry the daughter of his mentor and favorite...

Lipsyte, Robert. Warrior angel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperTrophy. 183p. c2003. 0-06-000498-3. $5.99. JS* To quote from the review in KLIATT, March 2003: In this powerful sequel to The Chief, Native American boxer Sonny Bear has achieved his dream of becoming the youngest heavyweight champion...

Marciano, Francesca. Casa Rossa.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Random House, Vintage. 340p. c2002.0-375-72637-3. $14.00. SA The story of two sisters is intricately wrapped up in the story of the old farmhouse in the heel of the boot of Italy their grandfather owned and passed down to them. The novel...

Maxwell, Katie. They wear what under their kilts?(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Dorchester Publishing, Smooch. 197p. 0-8439-5258-X. c2004. $5.99. JS Sassy 16-year-old Emily Marie Williams continues her wacky British adventures in the follow-up to The Year My Life Went Down the Loo. Deposited with her British best...

Napoli, Donna Jo. Daughter of Venice.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Random House, Dell Laurel Leaf. 271p. map, c2002. 0-440-22928-6. $5.50. JS To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2002: Napoli is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College and she clearly understands the love of...

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Nobody's there.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Random House, Dell Yearling. 200p. e2000. 0-440-41987-5. $4.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2000: For fans of Nixon's mysteries, here is another one--light reading. Much is hard to believe, and Nixon relies on...

O'Connor, Gemma. Walking on water.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin, Berkley, Jove. 339p. map. c2001.0515-13597-6. $7.50. A Garda Sergeant Francis Recaldo moved to Passage South, Ireland to find peace and quiet after his heart attack and divorce, when life in Dublin no longer appealed to him. Soon...

Park, Linda Sue. When my name was Keoko.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Random House, Dell Yearling. 199p. bibliog. c2002.0-440-41944-1. $5.50. J* An ALA Best Book for YAs, this book is also reviewed as an audiobook in this issue of KLIATT. To quote from that review, "This unusual book of historical fiction,...

Paul, Paula. Half a mind to murder.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (A Dr. Alexandra Gladstone mystery). Penguin, Berkley. 201p. c2003. 0-425-19282-2. $5.99. SA Dr. Alexandra Gladstone, the daughter of a country doctor in Great Britain more than a century ago, keeps all the residents of her village as...

Sherwin, Hiroko. Eight million gods and demons, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin, Plume. 328p. c2001.0-452-28451-1. $14.00. SA Representing the best of historical fiction, author Hiroko Sherwin tells the saga of the family of politician Taku Imura. Beginning with his entry into politics during Meiji-era Japan...

Smith, Roland. Zach's lie.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Hyperion. 211 p. c2001.0-7868-1440-3. $5.99. J How does a 7th-grader cope with two identity changes in just a few months without serious adjustment problems? Jack Osborne, alias Zach Granger, alias Mack Greene, manages to pull it off with a...

Tolan, Stephanie S. Surviving the Applewhites.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperTrophy. 216p. c2002.0-06441044-7. $5.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 2002: With his spiked hair, piercings, and all-black clothing, 13-yearold Jake looks the part of the juvenile delinquent he's...

Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Because I'm worth it; a Gossip Girl novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Little Brown. 231 p. c2003.0-316-90968-8. $8.99. S This fourth installment of the incredibly popular Gossip Girl series takes up where the third installment, All I Want Is Everything, left off. Couples have been reshuffled, the stress of early...

Weaver, Will. Claws.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Harper Tempest. 232p. c2001. 0-06-009475-3. $6.99. JS To quote the review in KLIATT, March 2003: 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"...

Wilson, Steven E. Winter in Kanda-har.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Hailey-Grey Books (16781 Chagrin Blvd. #103, Shaker Hgts., OH 44120). 455p. c2004. 0-9729480-0-7. $14.95. SA The historic hatreds that brew within Afghanistan lie at the root of a tense international adventure reminiscent of Cold War...

Wyss, T.H. Ten miles from Winnemucca.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperTrophy. 154p. c2002. 0-06-447334-1. $5.99. JS To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, March 2002: Martin gets in his jeep and heads back to Winnemucca, Nevada. Why? His new stepbrother has dumped all his clothes out of...

Buffie, Margaret. The seeker.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (The Watcher's Quest). Kids Can Read Press. 368p. c2002. 1-55337-359-6. $6.95. JS Emma, once a Canadian farm girl, has found her true destiny as a Watcher, a guardian angel of sorts in a multi-world game of empires. Still in training, she...

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Hyperion. 396p. c2001. 0-7868-1787-9. $5.99. J * Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old boy with a missing father, a sick mother, a loyal servant... and a world-class criminal mind with millions of dollars at his disposal. So if he decides to...

Dillard, J.M. The expanse.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (StarTrek: Enterprise). Pocket Books. 247p. c2003. 0-7434-8485-1. $12.00. JSA This is a novelization of the first of two Star Trek: Enterprise television episodes ("The Expanse" and "The Xindi"). In this exciting tale, Captain Jonathan...

Friedman, Michael Jan. Oblivion.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (Star Trek: Stargazer, Book 4). Pocket Books. 259p. c2003. 0-7434-4854-5. $6.99. JSA The Stargazer series Follows the adventures of Jean Luc Picard in his first captaincy. In this installment a young Picard is sent to get some supposedly...

Frost, Gregory. Fitcher's brides; the tale of Bluebeard, re-envisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (The Fairy Tale Series). Tor. 398p. c2002. 0-765-30195-4. $15.95. SA * Frost retells a variant of "Bluebeard" in this entry in Terri Windling's Fairy Tale Series. Transplanting the tale from its European roots, Frost sets it just north of...

George, David R., III. The lost era; serpents among the ruins.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (Star Trek. Lost Era). Pocket Books. 371p. c2003. 0-7434-64036. $6.99. JSA The Lost Era series is designed to bridge the approximately 70-year gap between the tales of Captain Kirk and the Enterprise-B and the tales of Captain Picard and...

Gilliam, Richard, Greenberg, Martin H., Kramer, Edward E., eds. Grails: quests of the dawn.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 388p. c2004. 0-451-45964-4. $6.99. SA The cover of this hefty paperback promises "25 Stories of That Most Magical Vessel," and one can't help wonder how there could be that many variations on the theme of the Holy...

Harper, Steven. Trickster; a novel of the Silent Empire.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 355p. c2003. 0-451-45941-5. $6.99. SA In the Despair many Silents died or went insane and Few remain able to enter the Dream (where communication is instantaneous over any distance). Most of the governing bodies that...

Levine, Gail Carson. The two princesses of Bamarre.(Children's Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperCollins. 291p. c2001. 006-057580-8. $6.99. J To quote from the review of the hard-cover in KLIATT, May 2001: Levine contributes to our literature with modern fairy tales--ones that still have ogres, fairies, dragons, magical swords,...

McBay, Bruce & Heneghan, James. Waiting for Sarah.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Orca. 170p. c2003. 1-55143270-6. $7.95. JS* When a truck driver hits his family's car head-on, 10th grader Mike Scott's life takes a terrible turn. He loses his parents his sister, his legs and a promising future in one fell swoop. After a...

Pournelle, Jerry. Starswarm.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Tor, Starscape. 341p. c1998. 0-765-34531-5. $5.99. JS After a slow start, the plot kicks in and the story really takes off in this successful homage to classic Heinlein juveniles. Kip Brewster lives at Starswarm Station with his Uncle Mike....

Rees, Celia. The Soul taker.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Trafalgar Square. 152p. c1997 0-340-87817-7. $7.95. JS Celia Fees, author of Witch Child, Sorceress, and Pirates, offers up this tale as a slight departure from her other works. Staying in the modern day as opposed to her usual historical...

Rinaldi, Ann. Millicent's gift.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... HarperTrophy. 218p. c2002. 0-06-441009-9. $5.99. J To quote from the review of the hard-cover in KLIATT, May 2002: We generally associate Rinaldi with historical fiction. Here she presents an alternate universe in modern times, giving us a...

Thomson, Amy. Storyteller.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Penguin, Berkley, Ace. 374p. c2003. 0-441-01094-6. $14.00. SA On the Earth colony of Thalassa, gentle whale-like harsal swim the seas, some with their telepathically bonded human companions, and history is passed on from generation to...

Winick, Judd. Outsiders: looking for trouble.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... DC Comics. illus. c2003. 1-40120211-X. $12.95. S Superhero teams Teen Titans and Young Justice have both disbanded after the needless death of former Wonder Girl. Troia. Arsenal, formerly Green Lantern's sidekick, decides he has had enough...

Zahn, Timothy. Manta's gift.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Tor. 408p. c2002. 0-812-58032-X. $6.99. JSA Jakob Faraday of the Jupiter project approaches Matt Raimey, who was paralyzed in a skiing accident, to be a "native" emissary to the Qanska, the huge, sentient, floating giants who resemble...