Kliatt articles from November 2002

Kliatt archives from November 2002

20-somethings in YA fiction.
November 1, 2002... The four of us are all 20-somethings who write YA fiction. That makes us representatives from the first generation of YA authors born around the same time as the genre itself. Authors like Robert Cormier, Judy Blume, Paula Danziger, Lois...

Almond, David. Secret Heart.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Delacorte. 200p. c2002. 0-385-90065-1. $17.99. J Almond, author of the ALA Notable Books Skellig, Kit's Wilderness, and Heaven Eyes (as well as the recent memoir Counting Stars), offers another affecting, mysterious, and...

Anderson, M.T. Feed.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Candlewick, 234p. c2002. 0-7636-1726-1. $16.99. S It's spring break, and Titus and his teenage friends are partying on the moon when he spots a beautiful girl. He and Violet are just getting to know each other when a hacker causes their...

Armstrong, Jennifer & Butcher, Nancy. The Keepers of the Flame.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... The Keepers of the Flame/(Fire-us Trilogy, Book 2). HarperCollins. 224p. c2002.0-060-29412-4. $17.89. JS* In this exciting follow-up to The Kindling (reviewed in KLIATT March 2002), the teenagers Hunter, Mommy, Teacher, and Angerman, who...

Banks, Lynne Reid. The dungeon.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... The dungeon/Harper Collins. 288p. c2002. 0066237831. $17.89. J Fierce, red-haired Bruce MacLennan proves himself in battle and earns a lairdship in feudal Scotland. He orders a castle to be built on his estate, with a deep, dark dungeon,...

Barker, Clive. Abarat.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Harper Collins. 432p. c2002. 0-06-028092-1. $24.99. SA The first in a four-part series, Abarat takes readers into Clive Barker's imagination, abundantly illustrated with his own dark, exotic images. Teenager Candy Quakenbush of Chickentown,...

Breslin, Theresa. Remembrance.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Delacorte. 294p. c2002. 0-385-73015-2, $16.95. JS Breslin has had a long career in Scotland as a librarian and a writer (winning the Carnegie Medal for the children's book, Whispers in the Graveyard). Her traditional style...

Cheaney, J.B. The True Prince.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random, House, Knopf. 340p. c2002. 0-375-81433-7. $15.95. JS* The flags are flying, the groundlings are streaming in, and the new play performed by Lord Hunsdon's Men is about to begin! In this work of historical fiction, we are given a...

Crossley-Holland, Kevin. At the crossing places.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (Arthur Trilogy, Book Two) Scholastic. 393p. c2002. 0-439-26598-3. $17.95. JS As is true of many middle volumes in trilogies, this serves as a narrative bridge and doesn't stand on its own. You would buy this only if you already have Book...

Danticat, Edwidge. Behind the mountains.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (First Person Fiction). Scholastic, Orchard, 153p. 2002. 0-439-37299-2. $16.95. JS* Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, both highly praised novels about Haitian life, writes here for the new series of immigrant...

Durbin, William. Song of Sampo Lake.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Wendy Lamb Books, 216p. c2002. 0-385-90055-4, $17.99. J Fifteen-year-old Matti comes to Minnesota with his Finnish family in 1900, homesick for the beauty of the old country but eager to help create a better, more independent...

Ellis, Deborah. Parvana's journey.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (Sequel to The Breadwinner). Groundwood dist. by Publishers Group West. 197p. map. c2002. 0-88899-514-8. $15.95. J Parvana is alone, her father dead, as she sets out disguised as a boy to cross the Afghanistan countryside in search of her...

Ferris, Jean. Once upon a marigold.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Harcourt 272p. c2002. 0-15-216791-9. $17.00. J Brought up by a troll in the forest--a troll whose mission in life is to break up the Tooth Fairy's monopoly--Christian grows to young adulthood and falls in love with a princess he spies from...

Fiedler, Lisa. Dating Hamlet; Ophelia's story.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Henry Holt. 183p. c2002. 0-8050-7054-0. $16.95. S I see this novel as a comedy, turning the tragedy of Hamlet upside down, yet with many of the same elements from the classic drama. Probably YAs won't get much of the humor without having...

Fields, Terri. After the death of Anna Gonzales.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Henry Holt. 105p. c2002. 0-8050-7127-X. $16.95. JS Another addition to the poetry novel genre, Fields' collection of voices centers on the suicide of Anna Gonzales and its aftermath among the students and staff of her high school. Each poem...

Frank, Lucy. The annoyance bureau.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 176p. c2002. 0-689-84903-6. $16.95. J Twelve-year-old Lucas is spending Christmas week in New York City with his father and his father's new family, though he'd rather be almost anywhere else. For one thing, his...

Friesen, Gayle. Losing forever.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Kids Can Press (2250 Military Rd., Tonawanda, NY 14150). 248p. c2002. 1554470317. $16.95. J Jes is a thoughtful young teenager trying to make sense of her ever-changing world. She wanted to believe in "happily ever after," and "forever,"...

Galloway, Priscilla. The courtesan's daughter.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Delacorte. 259p. c2002. 0-385-72907-3. $16.95. JS Galloway, who has written Truly Grim Tales, an ALA Best Book for YAs, here tackles a story from ancient Athens based on a speech from a trial of a courtesan in 343 and 340 BC....

Goobie, Beth. The lottery.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Orca. 272p. c2002. 1-55143-238-2. $15.95. JS* At Saskatoon Collegiate High School, a small group of popular students known as the Shadow Council controls the student body through mind games. A lottery is held annually, and the student whose...

Hidier, Tanuja Desai. Born confused.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Scholastic 432p. c2002. 0-439-35762-4. $16.95. S* This is an especially witty, intelligent immigrant experience novel, written by a young woman who grew up in America and probably was ABCD (American Born Confused Desi) herself. It has a lot...

Klass, David. Home of the Braves.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 312p. c2002. 0-374-39963-8. $18.00. S* Joe starts his senior year anticipating yet another not-so-hot season as captain of the not-so-hot soccer team--and then Antonio Silva, known as "the Phenom," arrives at the...

Lasky, Kathryn. Jahanara, princess of princesses, India, 1627.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (The Royal Diaries). Scholastic. 186p. illus. maps. c2002. 0-439-22350-4. $10.95. J Lasky succeeds in bringing this most exotic era to modern readers, many of whom may be aware of the Taj Mahal, but little else about the dynasty that...

MacPhail, Catherine. Missing.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Bloomsbury. 191p. c2002. 1-58234-773-5. $14.95. J This is a mystery involving middle school students, featuring the horrors of bullying in the schools, runaways and dysfunctional families. The author is Scottish and has seen firsthand how...

Many, Paul. Walk away home.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Walker, 240p. c2002. 0-8027-8828-9. $16.95. JS Nick doesn't run away from home--he walks away, trudging halfway across the state to stay with his flighty but caring Aunt Wanda. He's escaping his distant parents, who are still mourning the...

Martin, Ann M. A corner of the universe.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Scholastic. 208p. c2002. 0-439-38880-5. J "Last summer, the summer I turned twelve, was the summer Adam came," Hattie tells us at the start of this bittersweet tale set in 1960--and his arrival turns her quiet small-town life upside down....

Martin, Rafe. The world before this one; a novel told in legend.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Illus. by Calvin Nicholls. Scholastic, Arthur A. Levine, 208p. illus. c2002. 0-590-37976-3. $16.95. J Crow is a Seneca boy living on the fringes of his village with his aged grandmother. The others of the tribe have cast them out, worried...

Mochizuki, Ken. Beacon Hill boys.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Scholastic. 202p. discography, c2002. 0-439-26749-8. $16.95. JS Set in the working-class Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle in the early 1970s, this is the story of 16-year-old Dan Inagaki, whose parents would like him to emulate his older...

Murphy, Rita. Harmony.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Delacorte. 128p. c2002. $15.95. J* When a falling star crashes through the roof of Felix and Nettle Mae's chicken coop, they go to investigate and discover a beautiful baby girl lying beside the star. They name the child...

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Blizzard's wake.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 224p. c2002. 0-689-85220-7. $16.95. JS Fifteen-year-old Kate Sterling lives outside of Grand Forks, North Dakota, in March 1941. Across the ocean the world is warring, in the unseasonably warm air a blizzard is...

Pierce, Tamora. Lady knight.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Protector of the Small. #4). Random House. 432p. maps. 0-375-81465-5. $16.95. JS In this last book of the series, set in the medieval fantasy land of Tortall, 18-year-old Kel has finally achieved her dream of becoming a knight. She is only...

Rees, Celia. Sorceress.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (Sequel to Witch Child). Candlewick Press. 342p. c2002. 0-7636-1847-0. $15.99. JS* Witch Child is set in Colonial New England, and is about intolerance among the Puritans who were quick to call any woman who was at all insubordinate a...

Rinaldi, Ann. Taking Liberty.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster. 272p. c2002. 0-689-85187-1. $16.95. JS* Oney Judge was born a slave and spent 24 years of her life serving the family of George Washington, until she ran away to New Hampshire where she lived the rest of her life in...

Sleator, William. Parasite pig.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 192p. 0-525-46918-4. $15.99. JS This sequel to Interstellar Pig finds Barney again playing the game and taking on a variety of alien opponents whose goal is to win The Piggy, who currently resides among a colony of...

Snyder, Midori. Hannah's garden.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Viking. 248p. c2002. 0-670-03577-7. $16.99. JS Snyder is known for her unusual story-telling, for her fantastical images and her ability to combine art and magic into what is basically a "realistic" story. Cassie is a...

Spinner, Stephanie. Quiver.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Knopf. 160p. map. c2002. 0-375-81489-2. $15.95 JS Atalanta, from Greek mythology, is the subject of this first YA novel by Spinner, and she does make an ideal YA heroine. She is an accomplished athlete, an archer and runner,...

Wright, Randall. A hundred days from home.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Henry Holt. 154p. c2002. 0-8050-6885-6. $15.95. J Elam, who is about 12 years old, moves reluctantly from his beloved mountains to a rural desert community when his father takes a new job. His parents hope the change of scenery will help...

Veciana-Suarez, Ana. Flight to freedom.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (First Person Fiction series), Scholastic, Orchard 197p. c2002. 0-439-38199-1. $16.95. J First Person Fiction is a new series of novels, somewhat like the successful Dear America series in that a narrator tells about some segment of the...

Zeises, Lara M. Bringing up the bones.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House. Delacorte. 213p. c2002. 0-385-73001-2. $12.95. S* This is an unusually powerful coming-of-age story, an Honor Book in the Delacorte Press Prize competition for a First Young Adult Novel. It reminds me somewhat of Making the...

Alexander, Bruce. Smuggler's moon.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (A Sir John Fielding mystery). Berkley. 294p. c2001. 0-425-18690-3. $6.50. JSA For the younger YAs (readers of Ian Lawrence's The Smugglers, for instance) to adults, this mystery has appeal. It is part of a larger series that is...

Barwin, Gary. Seeing star.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Stoddart Kids 184p. c2001. 0-7737-6227-2. $7.95. J Poor Alex: his mother, a phone psychic, hasn't left her bed in 12 years and has grown to 400 pounds. He doesn't have many friends, and he doesn't invite people home or tell them much about...

Butcher, Kristin. Cairo Kelly and the Mann.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Orca. 172p. c2002. 1-55143-211-0. $6.95. J Kelly and his best friend, Midge, are constantly getting in trouble for mischief around schools. Though their pranks are harmless, Kelly and Midge are a constant target for the administration when...

Cabot, Meg. Princess in love.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (The Princess Diaries, Volume III), HarperTrophy. 260p. c2002. 0-06-052568-1. $5.99. JS* To quote from the review of the audiobook in KLIATT, July 2002: Those familiar with Cabot's Princess Diaries series will be delighted to read of...

Caldwell, Bo. The distant land of my father, a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Harcourt, Harvest. 378p. c2001. 0-15-602713-5. $14.00. SA This is at its core the story of a father and a daughter. The background for their relationship is much more exotic than most, since the best years they share as a family are in...

Davis, Lindsey. Ode to a banker.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery). Warner, Mysterious Press. 372p. map. c2001. 0-446-67906-2. $12.95. SA Number 13 in the Marcus Didius Falco series, set in the Rome of Vespasian, A.D. 74, finds our intrepid hero/private informer up to his...

DiCamillo, Kate. The tiger rising.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Candlewick Press. 116p. c2001. 0-7636-1898-5. $5.99. JSA* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2001: A National Book Award Finalist, The Tiger Rising is about two 12-year-old friends, which would seem to limit the...

Doherty, P.C. The Anubis slayings.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (An Egyptian Novel of Intrigue and Murder). Berkley, Prime Crime. 204p. c2000. 0-425-18581-8. $6.50. SA The wise Lord Amerotke, Chief Justice of Egypt, attempts to solve a bizarre series of killings and thefts within the sacred Temple of...

Dokey, Cameron. The storyteller's daughter.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Simon Pulse. 221p. c2002. 0-7434-2220-1. $5.99. JS Bucking the trend of retelling fairy tales in order to empower formerly passive heroines, Dokey's retelling of The Thousand and One Nights enlivens a heroine who is...

English, Karen. Francie.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. 200p. c1999. 0-374-42459-4. $5.95. J Readers are introduced to the protagonist of Francie with the line, "Every once in a while I did some hateful things and I just didn't know why"; she has just given a neighbor's...

Fleck, Earl. Chasing fire.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (Danger in Canoe Country series). Holy Cow! Press, dist. by Consortium Book Sales. 174p. illus. c2002. 0-930100-53-0. $12.95. J Chasing Fire is a sequel to Chasing Bears, but one need not have read the first book to understand the plot of...

Flinn, Alex. Breathing underwater.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... HarperCollins, HarperTempest. 263p. c2001. 0-06-447257-4. JS* KLIATT has already given starred reviews to this in hardcover and in audiobook. Now Breathing Underwater is available in paperback. It is the journal of 16-year-old Nick and his...

Kelley, Douglas. The captain's wife.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Plume 323p. c2001. 0-452-28355-8. $14.00. SA Few women were as happy as Mary Patten as she boarded the merchant clipper ship, Neptune's Car, on July 1, 1856 with her husband, John, who was its captain. Little did she realize, however, the...

Kazan, Frances. Halide's gift.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House. 360p. c2002. 0-375-75997-2. $12.95. SA Halide is a young girl growing into a woman within the exotic world of the harems of the Ottoman Empire, just as it is crumbling apart, and just as its most intelligent citizens are...

Matas, Carol. The war within: a novel of the Civil War.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Aladdin. 152p. c2001 0-689-84358-5. $4.99. J Thirteen-year-old Hannah is learning to be a Southern lady, though the Union has occupied her hometown. Though Hannah is Jewish, her religion is a family matter, and does not...

Menendez, Ana. In Cuba I was a German shepherd.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Grove Press, dist. by Publishers Group West. 229p. c2001. 0-8021-3887-X. $12.00. SA Not a novel, more than short stories, this is a collection of linked vignettes. The same characters reappear as their story continues. The common link is...

McGowan, Heather. Schooling.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Vintage. 314p. c2001. 0-375-71432-4. $13.00 SA After the death of her mother, Catrine Evan's father places her at Monstead, an English prep school north of London. Her father's glorious memories of the years he spent at that...

Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Brothers of Cain.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (Seneca Falls series). Berkley 3-23p. map. c2001. 0-425-18638-5. $6.99. SA Within this larger Seneca Falls series, featuring a family caught up in the events just before and during the Civil War, is a trilogy that began with Sisters of...

Poupeney, Mollie. Her father's daughter.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 246p. c2000. 0-440-22879-4. $5.50. J Growing up in the 1930s is especially difficult for Maggie Morrison, a young girl who spends most of her childhood moving from house to house, town to town. Maggie's father is...

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Esperanza rising.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Scholastic, Signature. 262p. c2000. 0-439-12042-X. $4.99. J The day before her 13th birthday, Esperanza's life shatters. Her father dies, and Esperanza and her mother must leave their easy life on the lovely family ranch in Mexico. With the...

Udall, Brady. The miracle life of Edgar Mint.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Vintage. 423p. c2001. 0-375-71918-0. $14.00. SA Brady Udall's collection of short stories a few years back, Letting Loose the Hounds, made a satisfying stir with its young male narrators making their way along the less...

Vance, Susana. Sights, a Novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 215p. c2001. 0-440-22864-6. $5.50. JS* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT's January 2001 issue: This is Vance's first novel for YAs and there is something about it that reminds me of the...

Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Gossip girl & You know you love me. .(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... 199p. 0-316-91033-3. You know you love me. (A Gossip Girl Novel). Little, Brown. 223p. 0-316-91148-8. c2002. $8.95 each. S Where should I start? Nate is falling in love with Jennifer, Blair is in love with Nate, Dan is in love with Serena,...

Wallace, Rich. Playing without the ball; a novel in four quarters.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 213p. c2000. 0-440-22972-3. $5.50. S* To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 2000: Wallace, a sportswriter, author of Wrestling Sturbridge, turns his attention to a story about basketball and how...

Williams, Tamara. Truth and lies.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Lorimer dist. by Orca 123p. c2002. 1-55028-756-7. $4.99. S Erin, an art student at her Canadian high school, comes to class one morning and is shocked to find out that Marcel, a gay friend, has been beaten up and is in critical condition at...

Windle, Jeanette. Jana's journal.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Kregel Publications (P.O. Box 2607, Grand-Rapids, MI 49501-2607; wwwkregel.com). 236p. c2002. 0-8254-4117-X. $12.99. JS Seventeen-year-old Jana Thompson tells the story of her senior year in a Christian private school through a series of...

Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True believer.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (Sequel to Make Lemonade). Simon & Schuster. 264p. c2001. 0-689-85288-6. $7.99. JS* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, January 2001: It's a year or so after the events in Make Lemonade, and LaVaughn is in a special...

Woodson, Marion. My brother's keeper.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Polestar, Raincoast Books, dist. by Advanced Global Distribution (8680 Cambie St., Vancouver, BC, V6P 6M9, Canada). 148p. c2001. 1-55192-488-9. $9.95. J Fourteen-year-old Sarah investigates the history of her uncle's house while she is...

Benjamin, Curt. The prince of shadow.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (Seven Brothers, Vol. 1). DAW. 511p. c2001. 0-7564-0054-6. $6.99. SA In a faraway land, the evil Harn race has conquered the land of Thebin and either killed or sold into slavery members of the ruling family. Llesho, the youngest son, has...

Bradley, Marion Zimmer & Ross, Deborah J. The fall of Neskaya.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (Book 1 of The Clingfire Trilogy; a novel of Darkover). DAW. 558p. c2001. 0-7564-0053-8. $6.99. SA The latest addition to the Darkover series, this fantasy marks the first volume in the Clingfire trilogy. Ross completed the manuscript that...

Cook, Dawn. First Truth.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 336p. map. c2002. 0-441-00945-x. $6.99. SA Forced to leave home in order to fulfill her destiny, Alissa searches for the Hold where Masters train Keepers in the ways of magic. With winter approaching, Alissa worries that she...

Curran, Bob. Bloody Irish; Celtic vampire legends.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Merlin Publishing, dist. by Independent Publishers Group. 186p. c2002; 1-903582-19-9. $14.95. SA For fans of vampires and Celtic lore this volume is a real find. Based on legends and stories that Curran heard during his travels through...

De Lint, Charles. The onion girl.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Tor. 508p. c2001. 0-765-30381-7. $14.95. SA Artist Jilly Coppercorn is well loved in Newford: talented, cheerful and generous. So why was she run down in the street and left for dead? And who broke into her apartment and destroyed her...

Garretson, Jerri. The secret of Whispering Spring.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Ravenstone Press (P.O. Box 1791, Manhattan, KS 66505-1791; raven@interkan.net). 208p. c2002. 0-9659712-4-4. $6.99. J When Cassie's family purchases an old stone mansion on the prairie in Kansas, it looks like a dream come true. Then Cassie...

Hendrix, Howard V. Empty cities of the full moon.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 441p. c2001. 0-441-00937-9 $14.95. SA* This thought-provoking SF novel depicts a quest to explore the boundaries of life and death. A devastating pandemic overtakes civilization, causing those infected to drum and dance,...

Jacques, Brian. Taggerung a novel of redwall.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 404p. illus. maps. c2001. 0-441-00968-9. $7.99. JSA To quote KLIATT's September 2001 review of the hardcover edition: This is the 14th book in a much-loved fantasy/action series about a world of both brave and villainous...

Lickiss, Rebecca. Never after.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 262p. c2002. 0-441-00907-7 $6.50. JSA This witty tale begins with gallant Prince Althelstan having hacked his way into a thorn-encrusted castle, past dusty sleeping people, only to find at the top of the tower three sleeping...

Little, Denise ed. Familiars.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... DAW. 319p. c2002. 0-7564-0081-3. $6.99. JSA Familiars is a load of fun to read for the fantasy fan or anyone who wants a good escape. Little has gathered 15 highly original stories that deal with magical companions, often called familiars....

Lowry, Lois. Gathering blue.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Random House, Dell Laurel Leaf. 215p. c2000. 0-440-22949-9. $6.50. JS* To quote from the KLIATT, September 2000, review of the hardcover edition: Lowry has created a haunting alternative society in Gathering Blue just as she has done...

McKiernan, Dennis L. Once upon a winter's night.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Once upon a winter's night. DAW 414p. c2001. 0-451-45854-0. $6.99. SA* McKiernan weaves an epic tale of romance and adventure with this adaptation of the Norse fairy tale "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," found in Andrew Lang's The...

Pelan, John, ed. The darker side; generations of horror.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 386p. c2002. 0-451-45882-6. $6.99. SA A sequel to Darkside, this second compilation of so-called horror tales may delight some but disappoint others. If one wants spine-tingling, hair-raising horror, look elsewhere....

Perry, Anne. Tathea.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 522p. c1999. 0-441-00970-0. $14.95. SA Tathea is the educated wife of a ruler in ancient times, leading an elegant genteel life until the people of the kingdom rise up one night to slaughter the royal family, including her...

Rabe, Jean & Greenberg, Martin H., eds. Sol's children.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... DAW. 315p. c2002. 0-7564-0082-1. $6.99. JSA Sixteen Original short stories explore the solar system, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond. Mars is a favorite spot, and both Mars stories involve a crime: "Old-Boy Network" takes high-stakes...

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the goblet of fire.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Scholastic. 734p. c2000. 0-439-13960-0. $8.99. JSA* To quote KLIATT's September 2000 review of the hardcover edition: This fourth volume of Harry's adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is up to the high standards of its...

Ryan, Kevin. The edge of the sword.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... (Star Trek: Errand of Vengeance, Bk. 1). Pocket Books. 281p. c2002. 0-7434-4598-8. $6.99. JSA In this first volume in a three-volume series, Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are facing a threat from the Klingon Empire. There has been...

Smith, Dean Wesley, ed. with John J. Ordover & Paula M. Block. Star Trek; strange new worlds V.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Pocket Books. 372p. c2002. 0-7434-3778-0. $14.95. JSA Every year, the best entries in the annual Star Trek short story contest are published in the Strange New Worlds series. Aspiring writers must have fewer than three published stories in...