Kliatt articles from September 2002

Kliatt archives from September 2002

Blending genres: novels in verse for adolescents.
September 1, 2002... EMERGENCE OF THE POETRY NOVEL The past two decades have seen an incredible surge in the number of works written expressly for the adolescent, ranging from nonfiction to fiction and poetry and beyond. Teachers and librarians have more...

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Catalyst.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam Viking. 240p, c2002. 0-670-03566-1. $17.99. S Anderson, author of the acclaimed YA novels Speak and Fever 1793, returns to the same high school Speak is set in for another story of courageous but struggling young women. Kate,...

Bauer, Joan. Stand tall.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, 192p c2002. 0-399-23473-X. $16.99. J * Sam is known as "Tree" because he is already over 6' 3", even though he is only in seventh grade. He isn't athletic, like his older brothers, and his classmates tease him. His parents...

Blackwood, Gary. The year of the hangman.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Penguin, Putnam, Dutton. 291p. c2002. 0-525-46921-4. $16.99. JS We can only hope that YA readers catch on immediately that this is an alternate history--the British didn't win the Revolutionary War, Washington wasn't imprisoned, Franklin...

Bruchac, Joseph. The Winter people.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Dial 168p. c2002. 0-8037-2694-5. $16.99. JS Bruchac turns to his own family's history as the basis for this novel about a raid in 1759 on a small Abenaki village named St. Francis in what is now Quebec. The people of the...

Cabot, Meg. All-American girl.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 256p. c2002 0060294701. $17.89. JS Sam doesn't think of herself as anything special. Sure, she has artistic talent, but compared with her beautiful, popular older sister and her brilliant younger sister, she self-pityingly...

Cadnum, Michael. The leopard sword.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Viking. 224p. c2002. 0-670-89908-9. $15.99. JSA * In the acclaimed prequel, The Book of the Lion (reviewed in KLIATT in May 2000), Cadnum conveyed both the spectacle and the horror of the Crusades through the eyes of a young...

Farmer, Nancy. The house of the scorpion.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum 400p. c2002; 0-689-85222-3. $17.95. JS In a future world where an evil empire called Opium is tucked in between the U.S. and Aztlan (formerly Mexico), a young clone named Matt comes of age. His foot is tattooed...

Frank Hillary. Better than running at night.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin. 264p. illus. c2002 0-618-10439-9. $17.00. Also avail. in paperback: 0-618-25073-5. $10.00. SA Ellie, a talented artist, has just started as a student at the New England College of Art and Design when she meets sexy Nate at...

Funke, Cornelia. The thief lord.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Tr. by Oliver Latsch. Scholastic, The Chicken House. 345p. map. c2000.0-439-40437-1. $16.95. J This novel about runaways in Venice, Italy, has been a best seller in Germany and has won literary prizes there and in Austria and Switzerland....

Goodman, Joan Elizabeth. Paradise.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin. 209p. maps. c2002. 0-618-11450-5. $16.00. JS Goodman has written powerful historical fiction before and this novel is no exception. It tells the story of a young French woman, who comes to the New World in 1542 with her...

Gray, Dianne E. Together apart.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Hougton Mifflin 193p. c2002. 0-618-18721-9. $16.00. J A blizzard that comes up suddenly on the prairies, killing schoolchildren: this is the main character in this drama of a young girl recovering from the deaths of two brothers in such a...

Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Random House Knopf 304p. c2002. 0-375-92181-8. $17.99. J Hiaasen, a columnist for the Miami Herald and the author of many best-selling novels for adults about the wild and wacky side of the state of Florida, offers a hoot of a read here in...

Hobbs, Valerie. Sonny's war.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Farrar, Straus. 215p. c2002. 0-374-37136-9. $16.00. JS * Hobbs gives readers a strong narrative from the year 1968, a terrible year for Cory's family and for America. This is the year of the Tet Offensive, and the assassinations of Martin...

Jacques, Brian. Triss.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (Redwall series). Penguin Putnam Philomel. 400p illus. map. c2002. 0-399-23723-2. $23.99. JSA This is the 15th book in Jacques' epic series about adventurous woodland creatures, both noble and dastardly. Here our heroes are Triss the...

Kindl, Patrice. Lost in the labyrinth.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin, 194p. bibliog, c2002. 0-618-16684-X. $16.00. JS * Kindl, author of the YA novels Goose Chase, The Woman in the Wall, and Owl in Love, retells the ancient story of the maze and the Minotaur in this compelling tale. As she...

Lawrence, Iain. The lightkeeper's daughter.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Random House, Delacorte. 26p. c2000. 0-385-72925-1. $16.95. S Lawrence is known for his swashbuckling novels for YAs set in the time of pirates, smugglers, ships with tall sails, and so forth. The only familiar theme in this latest novel,...

Levine, Ellen. The journal of Jedediah Barstow, an immigrant on the Oregon Trail; Overland, 1845.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (My Name is America Series), Scholastic. 172p. 0-439-06310-8. $10.95. J The stories of traveling by covered wagon across the continent on the Oregon Trail are filled with drama, inevitably. Young Jedediah starts his journal after his...

Lubar, David. Dunk.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin, Clarion. 256p. c2002. 0-618-19455-X $15.00. JS Summer at the shore sounds idyllic, but 15-year-old Chad is unhappy. He lives near the beach in New Jersey year-round with his hard-working waitress mother; she is divorced...

Marsden, John. The other side of dawn.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (Final book in the Tomorrow series). Houghton Mifflin 339p. c1999. 0-618-07028-1. $16.00. JS * What a wild adventure this series has been! Finally, a peace is negotiated at the end of this book, with the teenagers who have been guerilla...

Meyer, L.A. Bloody Jack; being an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Harcourt. 277p. c2002. 0-15-216731-5. $17.00. J * This stands up to Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and to Iain Lawrence's trilogy of sea adventures: the action is riveting, the settings exotic and realistically described, the...

Moore, Peter. Blind sighted.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Viking, 262p. c2002. 0-670-03543-2. $16.99 S A book about an unattractive teenager who has no friends always seems to be a hard sell. Kirk is 15, smart but a terrible student, awkward, short, with an unfortunate home life...

Paterson, Katherine. The same stuff as stars.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin, Clarion. 242p. c2002 0-618-24744-0. $15.00. J * It's difficult to decide what is a YA novel, but in the end I feel that this story of a resilient child (11 years old) will have appeal to readers even older than she is, in...

Plum-Ucci, Carol. What happened to Lani Garver.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Harcourt. 308p. c2002. 0-15-216813-3. $17.00 SA Is Lani a he or a she? Or perhaps an angel? Claire isn't sure, though Lani is her new classmate and close friend, a kind, caring, streetwise person who helps her out. And Claire certainly...

Sheldon, Dyan. My perfect life.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Candlewick Press. 202p. c2002. 0-7636-1839-X. $16.99. J Suburban New Jersey high school student Ella leads a seemingly perfect life--until her outrageous friend Lola (the protagonist of Sheldon's prequel novel, Confessions of a Teenage...

Slade, Arthur. Tribes.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Random House, Wendy Lamb. 160p. c2002. 0-385-73003-9. $15.95. JS The loss of his anthropologist father three years ago devastated 17-year-old Percy, who is about to graduate from high school in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He now tries to look...

Springer, Nancy. Lionclaw; a tale of Rowan Hood.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Philomel. 160p. c2002. 0-399-23716-X. $16.99. J In last year's appealing Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest (reviewed in KLIATT in May 2001), Springer cleverly imagined an intrepid daughter of Robin Hood who takes...

Tanzman, Carol M. The shadow place.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Millbrook Press, Roaring Brook Press. 180p. c2002. 0-7613-1588-8. $22.90; direct order, $17.18. J Lissa and Rodney have always been friends as well as next-door neighbors, but now that they are in eighth grade Lissa is beginning to worry...

Watts, Leander. Stonecutter.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Hougton Mifflin 181p. c2002. 0-618-16474-X. $15.00 JS Stonecutter is a gothic tale with mythic elements. In diary form, the narrator, a young stonecutter from upstate New York in the first half of the 19th century, tells about how he is...

Wild, Margaret. Jinx.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Walker 215p. c2002. 0-8027-8830-0. $16.95. S In the article beginning on page three of this issue of KLIATT the genre of novels in poetry form is discussed at length. Jinx is an excellent example of how a talented writer can use the format...

Wilson, Jacqueline. Girls Trilogy. Girls in love.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... (Book 1). 184p. c1997. 0-385-72974-X. Girls under, pressure. (Book 2). 216p. c1998. 0-385-72975-8. Girls out late. 218p. c1999. 0-385-72976-6. Random House, Delacorte. $9.95 each. J This series is like a British version of Phyllis Reynolds...

Blackwood, Gary. Shakespeare's scribe.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Sequel to The Shakespeare Stealer). Penguin, Puffin. 266p. c2000. 0-14-230066-7. $5.99. J * Due to the outbreak of the Black Plague and the closing of the Globe Theatre, the acting troop of Lord Chamberlain's Men, which happens to include...

Block, Francesca Lia. Echo.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... HarperCollins. 216p c2001. 0-06-440744-6. $6.99. SA To quote KLIATT's July 2001 review of the hardcover edition: In her dark, evocative style, Block (author of Weetzie Bat and other YA novels) tells of a girl named Echo finding herself and...

Boullosa, Carmen. Leaving Tabasco.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Grove dist. by Publishers Group West. 244p. c1999. 0-8021-3860-8. $13.00. SA When this novel opens, in the winter of 1997, Delmira, exiled from her native Mexico for 30 years, is living in Germany, working as an editor and translator of...

Cann, Kate. Grecian holiday; or, how I turned down the best possible thing only to have the time of my life.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... HarperCollins, Avon. 346p. c1999.0-06-447302-3. $5.99. SA After recently reading her Love trilogy (Ready!, Sex and Go!, reviewed in KLIATT July 2001), a huge favorite in my high school library, Kate Cann is my new ab-fab British author....

Cokal, Susann. Mirabilis.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Berkley, 400p. c2001. 0-42518-532-X. $14.00. A Based on the few historical details known about the medieval Saint Bonne LaMere, also called Mirabilis, this novel takes the reader back to the Middle Ages, to the 14th-century French village...

Crew, Gary. Mama's babies.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Firefly, Annick Press. 160p. c2002. 1-55037-724-8. $6.95. J The stern picture on the cover, of a matronly woman in old-fashioned dress surrounded by four very sad-looking children, provides a glimpse into what the story is about. Set in...

Donoghue, Emma. Slammerkin.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Harcourt, Harvest: 352p. c2001. 0-15600-747-9. $14.00. A Possessing a quick mind and an indomitable taste for what money can buy, Mary Saunders, on the street at age 15, takes up prostitution in 18th-century London, along with many other...

Durkee, Lee. Rides of the midway.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Norton 316p. C2001. 0-393-04971-X. $13.95. SA Noel Weatherspoon experiences ordinary and extraordinary psychological traumas as he grows from boyhood to youth to the cusp of manhood in Mississippi. His natural father most likely died in...

Ellis, Ella Thorp. The year of my Indian prince.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Random House, Dell, Laurel-Leaf. 212p. c2001. 0-440-22950-2. $5.50. JS To quote from the May 2001 KLIATT review of the hardcover edition: This is a novel based on the real-life experience of the author, who spent three years in a TB...

Gardam, Jane. The flight of the maidens.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Plume. 278p. c2000. 0-452-28334-5. $13.00. SA In 1946, while England rebuilds from the war, Hetty Fallowes, Una Vane, and Lieselotte Klein are friends headed to university on unexpected but earned scholarships. The summer after secondary...

Gilbert, Barbara Snow. Paper trail.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 154p. c2000. 0-440-22939-1. $5.50. JS To quote KLIATT's July 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Walker has grown up in the small, isolated town of Red Cedar, Oklahoma, dominated by an antigovernment militia...

Hamilton, Masha. Staircase of a thousand steps.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, BlueHen. 273p. c2001: 0-425-18530-3. $13.00. SA Hamilton drew upon her experiences as an AP correspondent in the Middle East to write a first novel that reveals in fascinating depth a desert culture in Jordan just before the...

Haynes, Melinda. Chalktown.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Washington Square Press. 356p, c2001 0-7434-4250-4 $14.00. SA In George County, Mississippi, Jesus holds a grudge like nobody's business, and loves a good joke, "same as everybody else." 16-year-old Hezekiah Sheehand...

Heath, Lorraine. Samantha and the cowboy.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (An Avon True Romance). HarperCollins, Avon, 250p. c2002. 0-06-447341-4. $4.99. JS Samantha, desperate to help her family financially, passes herself off as a boy and signs up to move cattle from Texas to Kansas. Sam, never having done...

Heneghan, James. The grave.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 246p. c2000. 0-440-22948-0. $5.50 J * To quote KLIATT's September 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Abandoned as a baby in a department store in Liverpool, 13-year-old Tom has grown up accustomed to...

Isaacs, Anne. Torn thread.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Scholastic. 188p. c2000. 0-590-60364-7. 4.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, March 2000: Isaacs bases this novel on the experiences of her mother-in-law who was a Jewish girl in Bedzin, Poland when the Nazis took...

Jenkins, Beverly. Belle and the beau.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (An Avon True Romance). HarperCollins, Avon. 296p. c2002. 0-06-447342-2. $4.99. JS This is a romance,novel with the typical happy ending. All the loose strings are neatly tied up and the most unbelievable finale becomes true for the two...

Klass, David. You don't know me.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Harper Tempest, HarperCollins. 344p. c2001. 0-06-447378-3. $6.99. JS To quote from KLIATT's January 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Klass, author of the ALA Best Books for YAs California Blue, Wrestling with Honor, and Danger...

Luna, Louisa. Crooked.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Pocket Books, MTV. 310p. c2002. 0-7434-3995-3. $12.95. A Mel Booth and her twin brother Gary were brought up by a single mother who brought home men who varied from ineffectual to extremely dangerous. The kids never got enough healthy adult...

Mack, Tracy. Drawing lessons.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Scholastic. 168p. c2000. 0-439-11203-6. $4.99. J To quote KLIATT's March 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Eighth-grader Rory is an artist, like her father. When her favorite tree has to be chopped down, she sketches it: through...

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Alice alone.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster, Simon. 230p. c2001. 0-689-85189-8. $4.99. J * To quote KLIATT's May 2001 review of the hardcover edition: This latest entry in the deservedly popular Alice series has Alice starting ninth grade and dealing with the...

Parker, Daniel. The Wessex Papers series. Trust Falls, vol. 1.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... PARKER, Daniel. The Wessex Papers series. Trust Falls, vol. 1. 270p. 0-06-440806-X. Fallout, vol. 2,254p. 0-06-440807-8. Outsmart, vol. 3. 248p. 0-06-440794-2. HarperCollins, Avon. c2002. $4.99 each. JS The first book in this three-part...

Pennebaker, Ruth. Both sides now.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Random House, Laurel-Leaf. 202p. c2000. 0-440-22933-2. $5.50. JS To quote KLIATT's May 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Liza, an ambitious high school sophomore in Austin, TX, has always prided herself on her maturity and her...

Perez, N.A. Breaker.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, Golden Triangle Books. 204p. c1988; 0-8229-5778-7. $9.95. J When Pat McFarlane's father dies in a tragic cave-in, his family breaks into pieces. Each member must make sacrifices in effort to survive. Pat places...

Rivers, Karen. Surviving Sam.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Polestar, Raincoast Books, dist. by Advanced Global Distribution. 206p. c2001. 1-55192-506-0. $6.95. JS What happens when you lose your best friend, your twin? That's the situation facing Pagan Riddler. She and her twin brother Sain are on...

Rougeau, Remy. All we know of heaven, a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Houghton Mifflin, Mariner. 226p c2001. 0-618-21911-6. $13.00. SA A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, praised by such authors as Kathleen Norris and Andre Dubus III, this novel by a Benedictine monk is intriguing ai first glance. We...

Smith, Kathryn. Anna and the Duke.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (An Avon True Romance). HarperCollins, Avon. 298p. c2002. 0-06-447338-4. $4.99. JS Anna is about to marry the perfect man, as seen by her mother, not by herself. Anna comes from wealth, but her family does not have a title or a genuine...

Sturtevant, Katherine. At the sign of the star.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 149p. c2000 0-374-40458-5. $5.95. J London of 1677 is a glorious home for 12-year-old Meg. She doesn't mind the noise or filth, and revels in the bustle. Her father's bookshop, and the manuscripts submitted to him...

Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood mummy.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Random House, Dell Yearling. 256p . c2001. 0-440-418666. $4.99. J This book in the popular series takes Sammy to Hollywood to be with her mother, an aspiring film actress. It feels like a real shift, with Sammy in a whole new place and...

Wells, Leslie. The curing season.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Warner 248p. c2001. 0-446-67866-x. $13.95. SA The title refers to the aging process in the farming of tobacco for shipment and sale. This ties in with the life process and the story of Cora Mae Slaughter, which can only be described as one...

Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. A piece of heaven.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Random House, Dell, Yearling. 200p c2001. 0-440-41869-0 4.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, January 2001: On one level, this is a grim story of a 13-year-old girl whose world is falling apart. On another level,...

Bennett, Nigel & Elrod, P.N. His father's son.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Baen. 398p. c2001. 0-7434-3531-1. $6.99. A A sequel to Keeper of the King (1997), this novel opens with a steamy lovemaking scene between Richard d'Orleans and his female lover. It is the Middle Ages and d'Orleans, we find, is really Sir...

Bradley. Marion Zimmer & Paxson, Diana L. Priestess of Avalon.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 394p. c2000. 0-451-45862-1. $15.95. JSA When Marion Zimmer Bradley, queen of Arthurian fantasy, died, she left an unfinished manuscript, which one of her main followers completed. This tale is set in third-century...

Edghill, Rosemary. The warslayer; an incredibly true adventure of Vixen the Slayer, the beginning.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Baen p. 312p. c2002. 0-7434-3536-2. $7.99. JSA Gloria McArdle is a 6' redheaded post-Olympian gymnast and phys. ed. teacher who casually tested for a background part in a TV series. Now a cult phenomenon, she's achieved world fame as the...

Graf, L.A. Present tense.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... GRAF, L.A. Present tense. (Star Trek: The Janus Gate, Bk. 1). 252p. 0-671-03636-X. Future imperfect. (Star Trek: The Janus Gare, Bk. 2.) 254p. 0-671-03635-1. Pocket Books. c2002. $6.99 each. JSA These are the first two volumes of a trilogy...

Harris, Charlaine. Living dead in Dallas.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (A Southern Vampire Novel). Berkley, Ace. 262p. c2002. 0-441-00923-9. $6.50. SA This is one terrific read. Harris has created a charming and winning character in Sookie Stackhouse--cocktail waitress, telepath, and girlfriend of a vampire....

Hayden, Patrick Nielsen, ed. Starlight 3.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Tor. 350p. c2001. 0-312-86779-4. $15.95. SA Editor Hayden once again brings together some highly literary SF in this most recent edition of his original anthology series. The stories are about evenly divided between fantasy and SE and are...

Lang, Jeffrey. Immortal coil.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (Star Trek: The Next Generation, #64). Pocket Books. 331p. c2002 0-7434-0592-7. $6.99. JSA This interesting adventure concerns Lieutenant Commander Data's developing emotional side, bringing in references to a number of original Star Trek...

Laumer, Keith. Flint, Eric, ed. Keith Laumer; the lighter side.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Baen. 500p. c2001. 0-7434-3537-0. $299. SA This collection of whimsical stories highlights human behavior through science. A good example is "Goobereality," about the employee of a vast megacorp who invents an Environmental Simulator. His...

Lee, J. Ardian. Outlaw sword.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Berkley, Ace. 310p. c2002. 0-441-00935-2. $14.00. SA Dylan Matheson has returned to the 20th century from his adventures in the 18th, sent back and returned by the fairy Sinnan in the hopes that he could prevent Scotland's eventual...

Marillier, Juliet. Son of the shadows.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Bk. 2). Tor. 590p. c2001. 0-765-34326-6. $6.99. SA Once they have caught the attention of the Fair Folk, the lives of the Sevenwaters clan will never be easy. First Sorcha's brothers were turned into swans by an...

McCaughrean, Geraldine. The stones are hatching.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... HarperTrophy: 244p. c1999. 0-06-447218-3 $5.95. J Phelim and his companions, a motley crew of people and animals, journey to the Stoor Worm's lair to defeat it and its hatchlings who have been roused by the guns of the Great War. Young...

McMahon, Donna. Dance of knives.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Tor. 416p. c2001. 0-312-87536-3. $15.95. SA Klale escapes her Guild and flees to a post-apocalyptic Vancouver, run by gangs called tongs and full of nameless dangers. Here she quickly finds a job and friends--and makes one deadly enemy. As...

Nix, Garth. Lireal, daughter of the Clayr.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... (Sequel to Sabriel). HarperTrophy 706p. c2001 0-06000542-4. $6.99. JSA Those who enjoyed Sabriel will find familiar ground in this fantasy, another coming-of-age tale. Here the protagonist is Lirael, who despairs of ever getting the Sight...

Whelan, Gerard. Dream invader.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... O'Brien, dist. by Independent Publishers Group. 176p. c1997. 0-86278-516-2. $7.95. J The cover of this book is terribly misleading--looking at it one would be led to believe that the main characters of the book are a three-year-old boy and...

Whyte, Jack. The singing sword.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... (The Camulod Chronicles, Bk. 2). Tor Forge 384p. c1996. 0-765-30458-9. $14.95. JSA What happened before King Arthur? How did the famous sword get forged? Did Camelot have a beginning? Those questions are answered in the Camulod...

Lee, Don. Yellow; stories.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Norton. 256p. c2001. 0-393-32308-0. $13.95. A Don Lee, the editor of the literary journal Ploughshares, has written a collection of short stories set in the fictional coastal California town of Rosarita Bay. All of the protagonists of Lee's...

Grenville, Kate. Writing from start to finish; a six-step guide.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Allen & Unwin, dist. by Independent Publishers Group. 216p. illus. bibliog. index. c2001. 1-86508-514-6. $11.95. JSA Australia's Kate Grenville is an accomplished novelist and teacher of writing. She has also authored. The Writing Book and...

Lederer, Richard. The bride of anguished English; a bonanza of bloopers, blunders, botches, and boo-boos.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... St. Martin's, Griffin. 178p. illus, c2000. 0-312-30038-7. $12.95. JSA Richard Lederer has fashioned an enviable career--to the tune of some 2000 books and articles, if the cover blurb is to be believed--out of collecting puns,...

Sharp, Caroline. A writer's workbook; daily exercises for the writing life.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... St. Martin's, Griffin. 144p. bibliogs. c2000. 0-312-28621-X. $12.95. SA For most of us who think of ourselves as writers--as well as for those who would like to include themselves in that illustrious group--one of the most challenging...

Dunn, Stephen. Different hours.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Norton. 121p. c2000. 0-393-32232-7. $12.00. SA If it is true that the smart man is one who simply understands the complexity of the questions, this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection is filled with an honest wisdom, one that confronts the...

Goodman, Joanna. Trace of one.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Univ. of Iowa Press. 52p. c2002. 0-87745-806-5. $13.00. SA Joanna Goodman is an experimenter with words. She uses them like tools, digging here and there for meanings or at least questions. And often, in her more surreal poems, there's only...

Oliver, Mary. The leaf and the cloud; a poem.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Perseus, Da Capo. 55p. c2000. 0-306-81073-5. $14.00. SA Mary Oliver opens with the line "Welcome to the silly, comforting poem." Only the "comforting" part of the description is true. This wonderful book-length poem is grand in scope,...