Kliatt articles from May 2003

Kliatt archives from May 2003

Students, write for the world: display your work on the Web.
May 1, 2003... MORE STUDENTS THAN EVER BEFORE ARE GETTING PUBLISHED Thousands of students are publishing their writing every day on the World Wide Web. The interest in and participation by students in online publication projects is phenomenal. For...

Arrington, Frances. Prairie whispers.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Philomel. 184p. c2003. 0-399-23975-8. $17.99. A stunning painting of a girl carrying a baby on the open prairie, with a bolt of lightning on the far horizon, introduces this suspenseful historical novel. Admittedly the...

Barrett, Tracy. Cold in summer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Henry Holt. 203p. c2003. 0-8050-7052-4. $16.95. For 12-year-old Ariadne, the summer before seventh grade just stinks. Her family has moved from suburban Florida to Dobbin. Tennessee, where her father has taken a teaching position at the...

Bowler, Tim. Storm catchers.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster. 200p. c2001. 0-689-8457301. $16.95. When teenaged Fin's younger sister Ella is kidnapped from their house on a wild English coast during a storm, the whole family is shocked and horrified. Fin blames himself for not being...

Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. For freedom; the story of a French spy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Random House, Delacorte. 181p. c2003. 0-385-72961-8. $15.95. Bradley has written fiction based closely on the life of Suzanne David Hall, who shared her stories with the author. The novel begins in 1940 when Suzanne is 13 and it ends when...

Brooks, Kevin. Lucas.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Scholastic, The Chicken House. 432p. c2002. 0-439-45698-3. $16.95. Fifteen-year-old Cait lives on a small island off the coast of England with her father, a writer of YA novels. Her older brother, home from university, is hanging out with a...

Clark, Hattie. It happened at a hanging.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Millbrook. 160p. c2003. 0-7613-2521-2. $22.90. The cover is intriguing, featuring a picture of a contemporary teenage boy in the middle of a Bruegel painting--what's going on? Essentially this is a time travel story, using the painting as...

Copeland, Cynthia L. Elin's island.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Millbrook. 144p. c2003. 0-7613-2522-0. $22.90. This is a rather old-fashioned novel about yet another girl who lives on a lighthouse island--I think there have been about four such stories that I can remember in the past few years. Much of...

Deuker, Carl. High heat.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Houghton Mifflin. 277p. c2003. 0-618-31117-3. $16.00. From the author of Night Hoops and Painting the Black comes another successful sports story featuring a teenage athlete in crisis. Shane is an important part of his prep school's...

Esckilsen, Erik E. The last mall rat.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Houghton Mifflin. 182p. 0-618-23417-9. $15.00. Mitch, age 15, wants to make some money, but he's too young for a real job. When a salesclerk at the local mall offers him cash to get back at a rude customer, he takes it eagerly, follows the...

Frank, E.R. Friction.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 208p. c2003. 0-689-85384-X. $16.95. Alex loves Simon, her eighth-grade teacher at her alternative school, just as she loves soccer and her best friend, Tim. But when a new student named Stacy arrives, everything...

Giles, Gail. Dead girls don't write letters.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Millbrook, Roaring Brook. 136p. c2003. 0-7613-2813-0. $15.95. This is a slight book, a psychological thriller. The narrator is Sunny (not exactly the right name for this girl), who receives a letter from Jazz, her dead sister. Then Jazz,...

Glick, Susan. One shot.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Henry Holt. 218p. c2003. 0-8050-6844-9. $16.95. Lorrie is settling in with her father and stepmother the summer she is 15 years old. In suburban Washington, D.C., there are a lot of possibilities for jobs, and her stepmother arranges for...

Goobie, Beth. Who owns Kelly Paddik? & Halverson, Marilyn. Bull rider. .(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Orca Soundings. 89p. c2003. 1-55143-239-0. $9.95. HALVERSON, Marilyn. Bull rider. Orca Soundings 92p. c2003.1-55143-233-1. $9.95. Orca Soundings novels are short and aimed at the reluctant teenage reader. Goobie's story will grab those...

Graham, Rosemary. My not-so-terrible time at the hippie hotel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Viking. 214p. c2003. 0-670-03611-0 $16.99. This first novel is a rather sophisticated version of the ever-appealing ugly duck ling tale. Tracy is the protagonist and narrator, an intelligent teenager devastated by her...

Hautman, Pete. Sweet blood, a vampire novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster. 180p. c2003. 0-689-85048-4. $16.95. This is quite an amazing novel. I remember when many YA novels featured a disease and then an after-school special followed up on the "educational" story--very contrived. Sweet Blood is...

Holt, Kimberly Willis. Keeper of the night.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Henry Holt. 308p. c2003. 0-8050-6361-7. $16.95. Holt's fifth and sixth grade years in Guam set the stage for this story told in a series of mini-chapters, each a lyrical vignette of island life. The narrator is Isabel, an eighth-grade girl...

Horowitz, Anthony. Skeleton Key.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... (An Alex Rider Adventure). Penguin Putnam, Philomel. 208p. c2003. 0-399-23777-4. $17.99. Third in the Alex Rider series, this suspenseful adventure follows Stormbreaker and Point Blank, but it isn't necessary to have read the other titles...

Johnson, Angela. The first part last.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster. 131p. c2003. 0-689-84922-2. $15.95. On the cover of this book is an appealing photograph of a young black man with a tiny infant. This picture introduces the novel to the YA reader--here is the story of a teenage father,...

Juby, Susan. Alice, I think.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... HarperCollins, Tempest. 292p. c2003. 0060515430. $15.99. This novel is really a long comic monologue. If a comedian were in front of you telling these vignettes, you would be laughing. That's the effect Juby has with the written...

Mead, Alice. Year of no rain.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 130p. map. c2003. 0-374-37288-8. $16.00. Mead has written other novels for young YAs about children in desperate circumstances--Girl of Kosovo, another novel by her now in paperback, is reviewed in this issue. ...

Miklowitz, Gloria D. The enemy has a face.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Eerdmans. 139p. c2003. 0-8028-5243-2. $16.00. Netta and her family have only lived in the States for a few months, having moved from Israel, when Netta's older brother Adam disappears. Since the father is a scientist working on projects...

Murray, Martine. The slightly true story of Cedar B, Hartley (who planned to live an unusual life).(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Scholastic. 258p. illus. c2003. 0-439-48622-X. $15.95. This is a first novel for Martine Murray. Published last year in Australia, it is filled with Australian slang (glossary included), which shouldn't be much of a problem for readers who...

Myers, Walter Dean. The dream bearer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... HarperCollins. 240p. c2003. 0060295228. $16.89. It's summer on 145th Street in Harlem, and 12-year-old David spends his time hanging out with his good friends Loren and Sussi, a girl from Kenya. Life at home is stressful, because David's...

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Patiently Alice.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 256p. c2003. 0-689-82636-2. $15.95. Now that her freshman year of high school is over, Alice is looking forward to working at a summer camp for disadvantaged children along with her close friends Elizabeth,...

Peters, Julie Anne. Keeping you a secret.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Little, Brown. 250p. c2003. 0-316-73777-1. $16.95. Holland is in her last semester at high school when she falls in love with a girl. She has been having an affair with Seth for some time now, sleeping with him--he adores her. But she has...

Pratchett, Terry. The wee free men.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... (A Story of Discworld). HarperCollins. 272p. c2003. 0-060-01237-4. $17.89. JSA* What a treat! SF writer Pratchett, author of the hilarious The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (winner of Britain's Carnegie Medal and an ALA Best...

Pressler, Mirjam. Malka.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Philomel. 286p. c2003. 0-399-23984-7 $18.99. JS Translated from German, Pressler shares with readers the story of Malka Mai, a young Polish girl who fled the German roundup of Polish Jews. Although Mai is a real person, the...

Prue, Sally. Cold Tom.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... 187p. c2002 0-43948268-2. $15.95. J* This is Prue's first novel, and it has already won several prizes in England. It is a fantasy about the Tribe and one of its members, Tom, elvin creatures who live parallel lives to the demons (human...

Richardson, V.A. The house of Windjammer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Bloomsbury. 348p. bibliog. 1-58234-811-1. $16.95. J This is an old-fashioned novel, lengthy and filled with exciting details of a bygone age: Amsterdam during the time of Rembrandt, in 1635. It is a time when the shipping companies traded...

Saksena, Kate. Hang on in there, Shelley.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Bloomsbury. 218p. c2003. 1-58234-822-7 $16.95. J A photograph of a lovely black teenage girl is on the cover--her hair stylishly braided, a pen in her hand. This is a good introduction to the story of Shelley, who in desperation writes...

Shusterman, Neal. Full tilt.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon Schuster. 202p. c2003. 0-689-80374-5. $16.95 JS* "It began the night we died on the Kamikaze..." Blake, age 16, finds himself living nightmare when his wild, thrill-seeking younger brother Quinn is trapped inside a supernatural...

Stenhouse, Ted. A dirty deed.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Kids Can Read Press (2250 Military Road, Tonawanda, NY 14150; 800-265-0884). c2003. 192p. 1-55337-360-X. $16.95. J Willy and his Indian friend, Arthur, are out late one night stargazing when they see three white men chasing an Indian youth....

Swallow, Pamela Curtis. It only looks easy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Millbrook, Roaring Brook. 1680. c2003 0-7613-2866-1. $15.95. J The first day of seventh grade couldn't be much worse for Kat Randall Her beloved dog Cheddar is near death at the vet's office after being hit by a ear. By early afternoon, Kat...

Wilson, Jacqueline. Girls in tears.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... (The Girls Quartet, Book 4). Random House, Delacorte. 170p. c2003. 0-385-73082-9. $9.95. J In this conclusion to the lively series, following Girls in Love, Girls Under Pressure, and Girls Out Late (reviewed in KLIATT in September 2002),...

Wrede, Patricia & Stevermer, Caroline. Sorcery & Cecelia; or, The enchanted chocolate pot.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Harcourt. 316p. c2003. 0-15-204615-1. $1700. JS Jane Austen meets Harry Potter in this romp through England immediately following the Napoleonic Wars. Kate and Cecelia are teenage cousins, best friends, and ladies of polite society. Kate is...

Yolen, Jane. Sword of the rightful king; a novel of King Arthur.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Harcourt. 349p. c2003. 0-15-202527-8. $1700. J There's a great secret in this story, kept so until the final chapters] There are hints here and there, but still, it is amazing when the secret is revealed. Otherwise, we have here another...

Brooks, Kevin. Martyn Pig.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Scholastic, Push. 234p. c2002.0-439-50752-9, $6.99. JS* Cursed with an unfortunate name and an alcoholic father, 14-year-old Martyn Pig lives unhappily in a rundown neighborhood. When his drunken father makes a threatening lunge at him one...

Coe, Jonathan. The rotters' club.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
May 1, 2003... Random House. Vintage. 411p. c2001. 0-375-71312-3. $14.00. A This should be rated R for realistic. It captures with visceral detail Birmingham, England, in 1973 by following the lives of two families: the Trotters (Sheila, Colin and their...

Cabot, Meg. Princess in love.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... (The Princess Diaries, Vol. lie HarperTrophy. 260p. c2002. 0-06447280-9. $6.99. JS* To quote KLIATT's March 2002 review of the hardcover edition: Princess Mia is back, still struggling with life as a freshman at Albert Einstein High...

Conant, Susan. The wicked flea.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Berkley. 289p. c2002. 0425-18885-X. $6.99. SA This is the latest in a series of 15 mysteries featuring Holly Winter and her malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi. This time out Holly has lost Steve, who has married a dog hater who isn't fond of humans...

Eppes, Cindy. South of reason, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Pocket Books, Washington Square Press. 278p. c2002. 0-7434-3973-2. $13.00. SA This is basically the story of adults who are making terrible choices, as narrated by the young teenage daughter Kayla. It happens in the South, in the past (a...

Frank, Lucy. Just ask Iris.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Aladdin. 214p. c2001. 0-689-84454-9. $4.99. J To quote KLIATT's November 200I review of the hardcover edition: It's the summer before seventh grade, and 12-year-old Iris, half-Latina and half-Jewish, has just moved to...

Freund, Diane. Four corners, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Harcourt, Harvest. 247p. c2001. 0-15-602692-9. $13.00. SA Perhaps because Rainey Dougherty, the ten-year-old narrator of this novel, has reached the age when her eyes have just opened to the adult world, she is able to describe it with...

George, Jean Craighead. Tree Castle Island.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... HarperTrophy. 242p. illus, c2002. 0-06000256-5. $5.99. J To quote KLIATT's July 2002 review of the hardcover edition: George is known for her novels My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves, in which young people survive in the...

Gregory, Kristiana. Prairie River; journey of faith.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Prairie River; journey of faith. Scholastic. 212p. c2003. 0439-439914. $4.99. JS News of the end of the Civil War and President Lincoln's murder had just reached Missouri as this novel opens. At age 14, Vanessa Clemens must leave the...

Hamilton, Lyn. The Etruscan chimera; an archaeological mystery.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Berkley. 293p. map. c2002. 0-425-18908-2. $6.50. SA Lara McClintock is off on another of her adventures while in the business of purchasing works of art for an antique store she and her former husband own. This time she is summoned by a...

Hardy, Leanne. The wooden ox, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Kregel Books (PO. Box 2607, Grand Rapids, MI.) 192p. map. c2002. 0-8254-2794-0. $6.99. JS The author draws on her considerable missionary experience in Mozambique and the personal accounts of others caught in that country's civil war in...

Hesse, Karen. Witness.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Scholastic. 162p. illus. c2001. 0-439-27200-9 $5.99. JSA* To quote KLIATT's September 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Hesse has stretched our imaginations before (especially in Out of the Dust and The Music of Dolphins) and here...

Hobbs, Will. Wild man island.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... HarperTrophy. 184p. map. c2002. 0-38043310-2. $5.99. JS* To quote KLIATT's March 2002 review of the hardcover edition: Hobbs sets this survival story off the coast of Alaska, where he himself has had experience sea kayaking. Andy, the...

Hopkins, Cathy. Mates, dates, and cosmic kisses.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 195p. c2001. 0689-85545-1. $4.99. J Lucy, Izzie and Nesta are the best of friends living in London. They are hip. bright, and sassy teenagers dealing with their parents, school, cell phones, fashion and boys--the...

Hughes, Dean. Soldier boys.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 230p. c2001. 0-689-86021-8. $4.99. JS* To quote KLIATT's January 2002 review of the hardcover edition: Across the ocean from each other, two farm boys, Spencer, an American teen, and Dieter, a German teen, are...

James, Brian. Tomorrow, maybe.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Scholastic, Push. 248p. c2003. 0-439-49035-9 $6.99. JS James' well-realized protagonist Chan is a 15-year-old street kid living in squats in New York City. Chan has been on the streets since she was 13. She's self-reliant, making time to...

Jenkins, A.M. Damage.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... HarperTempest. 186p. 2001, 0-06447255-8. $6.99. S* To quote KLIATT's September 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Austin, a small-town football hero, tells of his experiences in an unusual form: using second person, e.g., "You pull on...

Kasischke, Laura. The life before her eyes; a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Harcourt, Harvest. 280p. c2002. 0-15602712-7 $13.00. SA* Diana sees herself at 40 as content: happily married to a markedly older philosophy professor, mother to a daughter named Emma, spending her days sketching in her studio. She lives in...

Lachtman, Ofelia Dumas. A good place for Maggie.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Arte Publico Press (c/o Univ. of Houston, 452 Cullen Performance Hall, Houston, TX 77204-2004). 154p. c2002. 1-55885-372-3. $9.95. J Maggie Cruz has to leave Los Angeles because she feels that the pace of her life and of those around her is...

Lawrence, Iain. The buccaneers.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... (The High Seas Trilogy, Book Ill). Random House, Dell Yearling. 246p. c2001. 0440-41671-X. $5.50. J* To quote KLIATT's July 2001 review of the hardcover edition: A pirate ship coming toward you on the cover sets the drama for this...

McEwan, Ian. Atonement.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Random House, Anchor. 350p. c2002. 0-385-72179-X. $14.00. SA This book is currently number one in the paperback bestseller list, so I'm sure most of you are familiar with it. The question is whether YAs would enjoy reading the book. The...

Mead, Alice. Girl of Kosovo.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Random House, Dell, Yearling. 113p. c2001. 0-440-41853-4. $4.99. J How quickly the world's attention moves on... a few years ago we were focused on the plight of the Albanians in Kosovo. Yet, stories of children in war zones are horrific...

Mikaelsen, Ben. Red midnight.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... HarperTrophy 212p. c2002. 0-380-80561-8. $5.99. J To quote KLIATT's July 2002 review of the hardcover edition: Mikaelsen (author of Touching Spirit Bear) tells a dramatic story of a 12-year-old boy and his little sister as they escape...

Mitchell, David. Number 9 dream.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... MITCHELL, David. Number 9 dream. Random House. 400p. c2001. 0-8129-6692-9. $13.95. SA Eiji Miyake is a young man with a mission-to find the rich, powerful father who deserted his family years ago, and now lives and works in Tokyo. It isn't...

Myers, Walter Dean. Handbook for boys; a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... HarperTrophy, Amistad. 212p. c2002. 006-440930-9. $5.99. JS* To quote KLIATT's May 2002 review of the hardcover edition: In his award-winning YA novel Monster, Myers depicted a young man in trouble with the law; here, he focuses on how...

Naidoo, Beverley. The other side of truth.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... HarperTrophy. 252p. c2000. 0-06-441002-1. $5.99. JS* When a repressive military regime in Nigeria attempts to murder an outspoken journalist but instead murders his wife, their two children are thrown into a spiral of trauma and change....

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Playing for keeps.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Random House, Dell Laurel Leaf. 197p. c2001. 044022867-0. $5.50. JS Joan Lowery Nixon, a four-time Edgar Award winner, takes her many fans on a sea cruise fraught with political intrigue and a couple of murders. Our teen heroine, Rose Ann,...

Rennison, Louise. Knocked out by my nunga-nungas; further, further confessions of Georgia Nicolson.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... HarperTempest. 184p. c2001.0-06-447362-7. $6.99. JS To quote KLIATT's May 2002 review of the hardcover edition: The irrepressible Georgia is back, and fans of her previous adventures, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and On the...

Salisbury, Graham. Lord of the deep.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Lord of the deep. Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 182p c2001. 0-44022911-1. $5.50. J* To quote KLIATT's July 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Mikey, age 13, is "the youngest full-time deckhand ever to fish the deep waters of Hawaii's...

Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow boys.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 234p. c2001. 0-689-85770-5. $Z99. SA To quote KLIATT's September 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Jason, Kyle, and Nelson are in high school together, and each is struggling with his sexuality and how...

Schwartz, Virginia Frances. If I just had two wings.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Fitzhenry and Whiteside (121 Harvard Ave., Suite 2, Allston, MA 02134; www.fitzhenry.com). 224p. map. c2001. 0-7737-6192-6. $795. J To quote KLIATT's January 2002 review of the hardcover edition: Phoebe, age 13, is a slave assigned to...

Shreve, Anita. Sea glass.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Little. Brown, Back Bay. 376p. c2002. 0-316-08969-9. $14.95. SA The author claims, rightly so, that old houses contain many interesting stories about their inhabitants. Shreve writes about the same house here that serves as a background for...

Sones, Sonya. What my mother doesn't know.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 260p. c2001. 0689-85553-2. $6.99. J* To quote KLIATT's September 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Another story told in a series of short poems. Sophie is the narrator, and she is full of enthusiasm for...

Tan, Amy. The bonesetter's daughter.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... The bonesetter's daughter. Ballantine. 368p. c2001. 0-345-45737-4. $14.95. SA* To quote KLIATT's July 2001 review of the New Millennium audiobook edition: Tan's exquisite novel of the relationships between mothers and daughters, the past...

Towler, Katherine. Snow Island, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Plume. 285p. c2002. 0-45228390-6. $13.00. SA A gentle, slow-moving story of life on a remote island off the coast of New England before and during WW II. The three parts of the book chronicle the summers of 1941, 1942, and...

Weisberg, Joseph. 10th grade, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Random House. 259p. c2002. 0-8129-6662-7 $11.95. SA Hutch Falls, New Jersey is the suburban backdrop for the first-person narrative of Jeremy Reskin, high school sophomore, soccer player, and authentic teen voice. We meet Jeremy's clan and...

Williams, Lori Aurelia. Shayla's double brown baby blues.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 300p. c2001. 0-689-85670-9. $7.99. J* To quote KLIATT's July 2001 review of the hardcover edition: This is a sequel to the prize-winning When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune, and it picks up the story just months...

Wittlinger, Ellen. Razzle.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 248p c2001. 0-689-85600-8. $799 JS To quote KLIATT's September 2001 review of the hardcover edition: By the author of Hard Love, an ALA Best Book for YAs also set in the Boston area, Razzle tells of one pivotal...

Zindel, Paul. The gadget.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 184p. bibliog, c2001. 0-440-22951-0. $5.50. J To quote KLIATT's March 2001 review of the hardcover edition: When inquisitive 13-year-old Stephen goes to join his physicist father at Los Alamos in February of...

Armstrong, Jennifer & Butcher, Nancy. The kindling.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... (Fire-us Trilogy, Book 1). HarperCollins, Eos. 284p. c2002.0-06-447273-6. $5.99. JS To quote KLIATT's March 2002 review of the hardcover edition: Almost five years ago, back in 2002, a terrible virus (Fire-us) swept through the...

Bell, Hilari. A matter of profit.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... HarperCollins. 361 p. 0-06-447300-7. $6.99. JS To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 2001: Ahvren, an 18-year-old warrior, would just as soon never go to war again. A stint fighting aliens on another planet has left him...

Bova, Ben. The precipice.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Tor. 422p. c2001. 0-812-57989-5. $7.99. SA Years of the greenhouse effect have created ever more extreme floods and hurricanes, displacing and killing millions of people. There are two men, leaders in the space industry and residents of the...

Chernenko, Dan. The bastard king.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... (Book One of The Scepter of Mercy). Penguin Putnam, Roc. 431 p. c2003. 0-451-45914-8. $14.95 SA King Mergus of Avornis, past his prime and having gone through six wives without producing a male heir, marries his pregnant concubine. Local...

Clute, John. Appleseed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
May 1, 2003... Tor. 337p. c2001. 0-765-30379-5. $14.95. A Best known as the co-editor of The Science Fiction Encyclopedia, John Clute creates a literary triumph with this futuristic tale. Weaving allusions to other SF works throughout his creation, Clute...

Cutter, Leah R. Paper mage.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Roc 343p. bibliog c2003. 0-451-45917-2. $6.50. JSA In an alternative history of China's Tang Dynasty, Xiao Yen is apprenticed by her aunt Wang-Tie-Tie to a paper magician to learn to make origami animals come to life as...

Greenwood, Ed. A dragon's ascension.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... (A Band of Four novel). Tor. 366p. map. c2002. 0-765-34144-1. $6.99. SA This second volume of the Band of Four fantasy series finds the land of Aglirta in turmoil. Under the protection of the Serpants, the warrior Bloodblade assumes the...

Hendee, Barb & J.C. Dhampir.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 375p. c2003.0-451-45906-7 $599. SA Magiere is a professional charlatan. bilking superstitious villagers by pretending to slay vampires. But she and her half-elven partner have been on the road a long time, and she wants...