Kliatt articles from May 2002

Kliatt archives from May 2002

All war is not created equal: another YA novelist responds to 9/11.
May 1, 2002... If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when? --Hillel, 1st century B.C. Without a doubt, the year 1968 was a turning point for America. Two of my...

Ashley, Bernard. Little soldier, a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Scholastic. 230p.-c1999. 0-439-22424-1 $16.95 JS Ashley is an award-winning British author who has written many books for YAs. He chose the topic of African boy soldiers and melds it with teenage gang warfare on European (and American)...

Bechard, Margaret. Hanging on to Max.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Millbrook Press, Roaring Brook Press. 142p. c2002. 0-7613-2574-3. $15.95. JS This is a poignant story of a 17-year-old who wants to raise his baby son when the mother says she will give the baby up for adoption. With the help of his dour...

Cadnum, Michael. Forbidden forest; the story of Little John and Robin Hood.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Scholastic, Orchard. 224p. c2002. 0-439-31774-6. $17.95. JS Cadnum returns to Sherwood Forest in this exciting, violent sequel to his tale about Robin Hood, In a Dark Wood (a National Book Award finalist). Here the focus is on Little John,...

Chambers, Aidan. Postcard from No Man's Land.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 320p. c1999, 0-525-46863-3. $19.99 SA Jacob, a 17-year-old English boy, has come to Amsterdam to honor the memory of his namesake grandfather at a memorial service for British soldiers who fought against the German...

Couloumbis, Aubrey. Say yes.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin, G.P. Putnam 208p. c2002 0-399-23390-3. $16.99 J * "Wednesday morning is like any other but different," this novel begins, as 12-year-old Casey's stepmother and only caretaker, Sylvia, who usually sleeps in, gets up to see her off...

Creech, Sharon. Ruby Holler.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 310p. c2002.00-066371. $16.99. J Dallas and Florida are known at their awful orphanage as the "trouble twins," but the 13-year-old boy and girl are offered a chance for a different kind of life when an elderly couple invites...

Crowe, Chris. This lullaby.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam. 231p, c2002, 0-8037-2745-3, $17.99. JS A 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till from Chicago, visiting his relatives in the Mississippi Delta in 1955, was accused of speaking disrespectfully to a white woman. He was kidnapped and...

Dessen, Sarah. This lullaby.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam Viking. 330p. 0-670-03530-0. $16.99. JS * It's Remy's last summer at home, where she and her brother have always been close to their mother, a successful writer of romance novels, who is now in her fourth marriage. Because of...

Disher, Garry. The divine wind; a love story.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Scholastic. 153p. c1998. 0-439-36915-0. $15.95. JS This is an Australian novel that won the 1999 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award. It's an Australian variation of the theme in the American novel Snow Falling on Cedars, set on the...

Duble, Kathleen Benner. Bridging beyond.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Philomel. 203p. c2002. 0-399-23637-6. $17.99. JS An intriguing novel that could be read as science fiction or science theory, with the plot based on the main character experiencing the actual memories of her dead...

Durbin, William. The journal of C.J. Jackson, a Dust Bowl migrant; Oklahoma to California, 1935.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (Dear America, My Name is America). Scholastic. 169p. illus. c2002. 0-439-15306-9. $10.95. J It's hard to compete with Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust as the definitive YA novel about the Great Depression. Durbin does a good job of creating...

Flinn, Alex. Breaking point.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperCollins 242p. c2002.0-06-623848-X. $15.89. JS Paul knows from the start that he won't fit in at his new high school, a ritzy Christian academy in Miami. He's there because his lonely, depressed, clingy mother has taken a job working...

Henson, Heather. Making the run, a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 227p C2002. 0060297964. $15,95 S * Henson's first novels perhaps stronger because she, like her main character Lu, grew up in Kentucky and must have longed to make the run to the larger world, because she now lives in New...

Heuston, Kimberley. The Shakeress.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Front Street. 207p. c2002. 1-886910-56-1. $16.95 JS This is a historical novel, set in New England from 1828-1835, beginning when four orphaned children decide to take shelter with a Shaker community near their family farm in New Hampshire....

Hoffman, Alice, Indigo.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Scholastic. 84p. illus. c2002. 0-439-25635-6. $16.95. J Hoffman follows up her first novella for YAs, Aquamarine, with another short and water-related fantasy tale. Martha, age 13, lives in Oak Grove, where the memory of a terrible flood...

Johnson, Angela. Looking for Red.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Schuster. 128p. c2002. 0-689-83253-2. $16.00. J * Author of Toning the Sweep and Heaven, two Coretta Scott King Award winners about difficult family transitions, Johnson turns to the subject of grief in Looking for Red. Mike (Michaela) is...

Koertge, Ron. Stoner & Spaz.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... Candlewick. 176p. c2002. 0-7636-1608-7. $15.99. S * Ben, age 16, is so embarrassed by his cerebral palsy that he spends much of his time hiding out alone in the dark of a movie theater--until he runs into a classmate named Colleen there, a...

Lasky, Kathryn. A time for courage; the Suffragette diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C., 1917.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (Dear America). Scholastic. 217p. illus, c2002. 0-590-51141-6. $10.95. J This is the diary of an 8th grade girl, who looks on as her older sisters, her mother and her aunt take part in the movement to gain votes for women. Her own family...

Miller, Mary Beth. Aimee.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 293p. c2002.0-525-46894-3. $16.99. S Aimee is dead. She was Zoe's best friend and part of a group of friends who live in the suburbs in middle-class comfort. We soon see from the narrator's angry voice that she has...

Myers Walter Dean. Handbook for boys.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 192p. c2002 0-06-029147-8. $15.89. JS * In his award-winning YA novel Monster, Myers depicted a young man in trouble with the law; here, he focuses on how teenaged boys can keep out of trouble. Sixteen-year-old Jimmy has a...

Napoli, Donna Jo. Daughter of Venice.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Random House. 274p. c2002. 0-385-32780-3. $16.95. JS Napoli is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College and she clearly understands the love of learning in the telling of this story of an exceptional girl, Donata, living in Venice...

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Simply Alice.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (Alice series). Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 240p. c2002. 0-689-82635-4. $16.00. J * This is the 14th book in this beloved series, following Alice, now age 14, as she grows and changes. Here she is in her freshman year of high school,...

Oates, Joyce Carol. Big Mouth & Ugly Girl.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 272p. c2002. 0-06-623758-0. $16.89. JS In this tale of two 16-year-old high school students, an unlikely romance blossoms out of a police investigation. Matt Donaghy, eager to be popular, is "Big Mouth," whose joke about a...

O'Keefe, Susan Heyboer. My life and death by Alexandra Canarsie.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Peachtree, Freestone. 218p. c2002, 1-56145-264-5. $14.95. JS Headstrong, mouthy 14-year-old Alexandra and her mother have just moved once again. Now they're living in a run-down trailer in her mother's old hometown, and Alexandra hates...

Placide, Jaira. Fresh girl.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Random House. 216p. c2002. 0-385-32753-6. $15.95. J * Mardi spent much of her childhood in Haiti with her grandmother, her uncle, aunt, and older sister, until the coup in 1991 sent them all to New York to escape the violence and chaos....

Qualey, Marsha. One night.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Dial. 170p. c2002. 0-8037-2602-3. $16.99. JS Kelly, age 19, is a recovering heroin addict who works as an assistant to her aunt Kit, a famous and cantankerous radio talk show host. While delivering a gift to the hotel room...

Rennison, Louise. Knocked out by my nunga-nungas: further further confessions of Georgia Nicolson.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 180p. c2001. 0-06-623695-9. $15.89. JS The irrepressible Georgia is back, and fans of her previous adventures, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, will be...

Rinaldi, Ann. Millicent's gift.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperCollins 219p. c2002. 0-06-029637-2. $15.95. J We generally associate Rinaldi with historical fiction. Here she presents an alternate universe in modern times, giving us a wonderfully realized family in which most of the females have...

Simoen, Jan. What about Anna?(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tr. by John Nieuwenhuizen. Walker. 254p. c1999 0-80278808-4. $16.95. JS This is a sophisticated (by American standards) YA novel about a 16-year-old girl, Anna, who has lost two older brothers: one to AIDS, one in the war in Bosnia, Her...

Smith, Sheeri L. Lucy the giant.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Random House, Delacorte. 218p. c2002. 0-385-90031-7 $15.95. JS * Lucy's life in Sitka, Alaska is a hard one; at 15, she is over six feet rail, and her hostile classmates call her "the giant." At home, she must contend alone with her drunken...

Thesman, Jean. Between.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Viking. 200p. c2002. 0-670-03561-0. $15.99 J When 14-year-old Charlotte's mother must go to a tuberculosis sanitarium and her father is recalled by the Navy and sent to Hawaii (the year is 1941), she and her siblings and...

White, Ellen Emerson. The journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps. Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... WHITE, Ellen Emerson. The journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps. Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968. 188p. illus. 0-439-14890-1. Where have all the flowers gone? The diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968....

Young, Karen Romano. Outside in.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperCollins, Greenwillow. 208p. c2002. 0-06-029368-3. $16.89. J The year 1968 is a difficult one for almost 13-year-old Cherie. Her secure world of family and friends is threatened by outside events as well as by changes closer to home....

Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten fire, a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Dell, Laurel-Leaf. 272p. c2000. 0-44022914-0. 5.99. JS * This YA novel is a National Book Award Finalist and was chosen by the ALA as a Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults. To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2000:...

Baggott, Juliana. Girl talk.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Pocket Books, Washington Square Press. 246p. c2001. 0-74340083-6. $14.00. SA In 1999, when Lissy Jablonski is nearly 30, unexpectedly pregnant, and living on her own in New York, she looks back at the strange summer when she was 15. That...

Carroll, Jenny. Safe house.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (1-800-Where-R-You, #3). Simon & Schuster, Simon Pulse. 262p. c2002. 0-7434-1141-2. $4.99. JS This third entry in the series finds 16-year-old Jessica dragged into solving a mystery in her small town. One cheerleader has been murdered,...

Cobb, Katie. Happenings.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperCollins, 250p. c2002. 0-06-447232-9. $5.95. JS Cobb, an experienced teacher, creates a realistic school environment where a group of seniors take up a protest against their English teacher, which has unforeseen consequences for...

Creech, Sharon. The Wanderer.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 306p. illus. c2000. 0-06-441032-3. $5.99. J * To quote KLIATT's March 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Sophie, age 13. heads off on the adventure of a lifetime: she will spend a month crossing the Atlantic in a...

Farrell, Mame. Bradley and the billboard.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 216p. c1998. 0-37440912-9. $6.95. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 1998: This is an entertaining story about a handsome boy's dilemma, but frankly I think it is a story girls will...

Gilliland, Hap. Alone in the wilderness.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Naturegraph. 158p. illus. c2001. 0-87961-257-6. $14.95. J Flint Red Coyote is a high school senior who is challenged to spend three months in the wilderness alone. The challenge is issued during a discussion in history class about...

Guzman, Lila. Lorenzo's secret mission.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Arte Publico Press, Pinato Books. 154p. c2001.155885-341-3. $9.95. J This is an exciting, adventure-filled story about a 15-year-old Spanish boy, Lorenzo, during the American Revolution. Honoring his father's dying wish, Lorenzo must...

Hamilton, Lyn. The African quest.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Archeological Mystery). Berkley, Prime Crime. 294p. c2001. 0-425-18313-0. $6.50. SA Lara McClintoch is pressed by her ex-husband into leading an antiques and archeology tour sponsored by their antiques store in Toronto. The minute she sets...

Joseph, Lynn. The color of my words.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HarperTrophy. 140p. c2000. 0-06-447204-3. $4.95. J This is a breathtaking story about Ana Rosa, set in the Dominican Republic. Ana is a 12-year-old girl with a fierce passion for words: she uses any scrap of paper she can find to transfer...

Kherdian, David. The revelations of Alvin Tolliver.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Hampton Roads (1125 Stoney Ridge Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22902). 93p. c2001. 1-57174-255-7. $7.95. J Alvin Tolliver introduces readers to his story by telling them that "people come into our lives--and sometimes they change our...

Koss, Amy Goldman. The girls.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 122p. c-2000. 0-14-230033-0. $4.99. J To quote KLIATT's November 2000 review of the hardcover edition: It's a cruel, cruel world--especially if you're a seventh-grade girl and the leader of your clique has just dumped you....

Martyn, Isolde. The knight and the rose.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Berkley. 452p. 1999. 0-425-18329-7. $14.00 SA Intrigued by a medieval divorce proceeding as well as the status of women in England during the 1300s, romance writer Martyn has woven a compelling novel within the framework of that period. Two...

McCormick, Patricia. Cut.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Scholastic, Push. 152p. c2000. 0-439-32459-9. $6.99. JS To quote KLIATT's January 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Fifteen-year-old Callie is currently living at Sea Pines, known by its "guests" as Sick Minds; it's a residential...

McCrumb, Sharyn. The songcatcher.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (A Ballad Novell). Penguin Putnam, Signet. 404p. c2001. 0-451-20250-3. $7.99. SA * To quote KLIATT's November 2001 review of the Brilliance audiobook edition: McCrumb's latest in her Ballad series continues the series' tradition of a...

McFadden, Bernice L. The warmest December.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Plume. 239p. c2001. 0-452-28291-8. $13.00. A The adult Kenzie Lowe visits the bedsioe of her dying father and remembers her childhood and adolescence in a series of brutally grim flashbacks. Kenzie's adult scenes are vague and unrealwin one...

Mujica, Barbara. Frida.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Plume. 366p. c2001. 0-452-28303-5. $14.00 A An excellent piece of writing, this fictional biography of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo will be most enjoyed by those who have an interest in her art, her famous husband, Diego Rivera,...

Newman, Sharan. Death comes as epiphany.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery). Tor, Forge. 319p. c1993. 0-765-30374-4. $14.95. A This first Catherine LeVendeur mystery establishes the author as impressive in medieval scholarship and as entertaining as the 18-year-old who dominates...

Ritter, John H. Over the wall.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin, Puffin. 312p. c2000. 0-698-11931-2. $6.99. JS * To quote from the review of the hard-cover in KLIATT, September 2000: It wasn't until I got far into this book that I went back and really looked at the cover and realized the...

Roberts, Michele. Daughters of the house.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... St. Martin's, Picador. 172p. c1992. 0-312-42038-2. $12.00. SA Therese returns to the house of her childhood in Normandy after spending 20 years in a convent. The house continues to hold memories of horrors and lies dating from the German...

Solar-Tuttle, Rachel. Number 6 fumbles.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Pocket Books, MTV Books. 242p. c2002. 0-7434-2851-x. $12.95. A Rebecca is a very bright Univ. of Pennsylvania sophomore--the kind who can write A + papers four hours before deadline--when she attends a football game and sees a home team...

Stewart, Mike. Dog Island.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Berkley, Prime, Crime 290p. c2000. 0-425-18204-5. $5.99. SA Southern attorney Tom McInnes is asked by a friend to look into a case where a young teenage runaway has seen a murder. Carli, the runaway, is in a predicament. The mob will try to...

Strasser, Todd. Give a boy a gun.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Simon Pulse. 208p. bibliog. c2000. 0-0689-84893-5. $4.99. JSA * To quote KLIATT's July 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Author of many popular YA novels, Strasser tackles a disturbing and all-too-timely topic...

Tademy, Lalita. Cane River.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... 529p. illus maps. c2001. 0-446-67845-7. $13.95 SA * A selection of Oprah's Book Club, this fictionalized family history, telling of four generations of slave women living on Cane River in Louisiana from 1834 until the early 20th century,...

Thesman, Jean. Calling the swan.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Puffin. 147p. c2000. 0-14-230035-7. $5.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November 2000: Within the first pages, we sense an ominous situation in the narrator's family, but not until the final pages do we...

Thompson, Julian F. Terry and the pirates.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Simon Pulse. 310p. c2000. 0-689-85085-9. $5.99. JS To quote KLIATT's September 2000 review of the hardcover edition: When resourceful 16-year-old Terry hears of her parents' plans to send her off to boarding school,...

Tullson, Diane. Saving Jasey.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Orca. 172p. C2001. 1-55143-220-X. $6.95. JS * Told in the first person, this tense short novel about family patterns is both compelling and disturbing. Gavin is caught in a swirl of violence inflicted by his brother and father, and at...

Bradley, Marion Zimmer, ed. Sword and sorceress XIX.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... DAW. 314p. c2002. 0-7564-0049-X. $6.99. SA As is evident in the title, this anthology marks the 19th in this invited anthology. Bradley died while reading the submissions, and had enough for three anthologies, so this volume constitutes the...

Briggs, Patricia. Dragon bones.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 295p. c2002. 0-441-00916-6. $6.99. JSA Being the son of a jealous lord has not been easy for Wardwick. After nearly being beaten to death at a young age, he feigns being as mentally dim as he is large. This serves him well...

Carroll, Jenny. Darkest hour.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (The Mediator #4). Pocket Books, Pocket Pulse. 244p. c2001. 0-671-78847-7. $4.99. JS The Mediator series is a fun-to-read set of tales about a young girl (a "mediator") who can communicate with ghosts who don't want to, or can't, cross...

Clement-Davies, David. Fire bringer.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Firebird. 498p. map. c1999. 0-14-230060-8. $6.99. JSA * To quote KLIATT's January 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Among the red deer of ancient Scotland, who call themselves the Herla, a prophecy foretells the...

Dalkey, Kara. Ascension.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (Water, Book 1). HarperCollins, Avon. 236p. c2002. 0-06-440808-6. $4.99. J I love this new series about a mermaid who wants to be one of the Avatars who help to rule Atlantis. I have already had students race through reading this book, and...

Dann, Jack & Webb, Janeen, eds. Dreaming down under.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tor. 550p. c1998. 0-312-87812-5. $17,95. SA Australia is not the first place one thinks of for science fiction, yet this anthology of Australian SF reveals its variety and richness. As far back as the 19th century, Australian authors have...

Elrod, P.N., ed. Dracula in London.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 264p. c2001. 0-441-00858-5. $14.95. SA A collection of 16 tales purports to fill us in on what Dracula was doing in London while he was not seducing Mina, browbeating Harker, and being chased by Dr. van Helsing. Some heavy...

Friedman, Michale Jan. The valiant.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (Star Trek: The Next Generation). Pocket Books. 280p. c2000. 0-671-77523-5. $6.99. JSA This exciting unnumbered adventure in the Star Trek: TNG series deals with a young Jean-Luc Picard, Second Officer aboard the USS Stargazer. While on...

Giambastiani, Kurt R.A. The spirit of thunder: an alternative history.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (sequel to The Year The Cloud Fell). Penguin Putnam, Roc. 356p. c2002. 0-451-45870-2. $6.99. JSA The year is 1886; most of the middle U.S. is unsettled frontier inhabited by the Indians of the Cheyenne Alliance. President George Custer is...

Gutman, Dan. Babe & me.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... (A Baseball Card Adventure) HarperTrophy. 161p. illus. c2000. 0-380-80504-9. $5.95. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, January 2000: In this time travel adventure, Joe goes with his father back to 1932, to the World...

Hantman, Clea.(Heaven Sent)(Three Girls and a God)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HANTMAN, Clea. Goddesses series. Heaven sent. (#1). 172,. 0-06-440875-2. Three girls and a god. (#2). 158p. 06-440803-5. HarperCollins, Avon. c2002. $4.99 each. Greek mythology enters the 21st century. Based upon a contemporary premise...

Jacques, Brian. Castaways of the Flying Dutchman.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 356p. c2001: 0-441-00914-X, $6.99. JS Neb, a mute orphan boy, and a scrawny black Labrador dog called Den, team up in Denmark in 1620, taking dubious shelter on a sailing ship. Work is hard, the boy's masters are harsh--and...

Kiernan, Caitlin R. Threshold.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 260p. glossary. c2001. 0-451-45858-3. $14.00. SA Gothic SF is becoming a mainstay genre, and Kiernan explores its properties in this geology-based thriller about young adult edgy urbanites. Chance, the main character,...

King, Stephen. Dreamcatcher.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Pocket Books. 882p. c2001 0-7434-3627-X. $7.99. A King has done it again, This time four boyhood friends from Maine (where else?) reunite in adulthood for a visit to their favorite backwoods haunt. Since childhood, these four--Henry, Pete,...

Kurtz, Katherine. St. Patrick's gargoyle.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 291p. c2001. 0-441-00905-0. $7.50. JSA Padraig (Paddy) is an ancient gargoyle perched atop St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. When items are stolen from the church and his favorite verger is roughed up in the process,...

O'Brien, Judith. Timeless love.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Pocket Books, Simon Pulse. 232p. bibliog. c2002. 0-7434-1921-9. $4.99. JS Samantha is transported from modern-day life in the 21st century to 16th-century England by wishing on a magical silver necklace given to her by her mother for her...

Philbrick, Rodman. The last book in the universe.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Scholastic. 224p. c2000. 0-439-08759-7. $4.99. JS * To quote KLIATT's November 2000 review of the hardcover edition: The award-winning author of Freak the Mighty and other books for YAs turns to SF here, in an imaginative and...

Radford, Irene. The hidden dragon.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Stargods, #1). DAW. 396p. c2002. 0-7564-0051-1. $6.99. SA Three brothers crash on an unknown planet while trying to escape the Empire. Repairs to their shuttle require that they find the needed resources-and deal with the local population....

Reiss, Kathryn. Paperquake, a puzzle.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... (A Time Travel Mystery). Harcourt. 274p. c1998. 0-15-216782-X. $6.00. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 1998: At first I was impatient with the main character in this novel, considering her shallow and boring....

Rylant, Cynthia. The heavenly village.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Scholastic. 96p. c1999 0-439-23149-3. $4.99. JSA To quote KLIATT's September 1999 review of the hardcover edition: No one dies, in this lovely parable: "They just relocate." On the way to heaven there is a wayside station, a little...

Scott, Melissa & Barnett, Lisa A. Point of dreams.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tor. 352p. c2001. 0-312-87589-4. $15.95. SA In this novel, taking a line from Shakespeare, the play is really the thing. A new masque is debuting in Point of Dreams and while the city prepares for the new play to debut, the pointsmen are in...

Silverberg, Robert, ed. Legends: short novels by the masters of modern fantasy.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tor. 718p. illus. c1998. 0-765-30035-4. $15.95. SA These 11 stories, all new, by well-known authors, take place in well-established fantasy worlds. If the reader is not perfectly familiar with those worlds, it doesn't matter, really,...

Springer, Nancy. I am Mordred: a tale from Camelot.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam. 184p. c1998. 0-0698-11841-3. $5.99. JS * To quote from the review of the hardcover from KLIATT, September 1998: Not the place to begin with the Camelot tales, but this haunting story of Mordred, King Arthur's son,...