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McCaffrey, Anne and McCaffrey, Todd. Dragon's Kin.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Dec. 2003. 304p. Del Rey, $24.95 (0-345-46198-3).
The latest Pern novel is something of a family affair, with the creator of one of sf's most splendid and longest-lived sagas collaborating with her son on the latest installment. The story takes place during an unexplored period in the history of Pern, before the coming of the Thread. The watch-whers are already playing a prominent role, however, keeping watch at night at the holds and weyrs and helping in the mines. The protagonists are Kindin and Nuella, young people living in a mining camp. A cave-in wipes out Kindin's father and brothers as well as the old watch-wher, and Kindin moves in with camp Harper. There ...
- McCaffrey, Carmel. In search of Ireland's heroes.(Young adult review)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Julian, Janet September 1, 2008 700+ words
McCAFFREY, Carmel. In search of Ireland's heroes...16.95. SA A native of Ireland, McCaffrey is currently a lecturer at Johns Hopkins...Army and its urban guerrilla tactics. McCaffrey ends with the partitioning of Ireland...
- McCaffrey, Anne. Freedom ransom.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Hoy, Sherry S. May 1, 2003 700+ words
Berkley, Ace. 287p. c2002. 0-441-01020-2. $6.99. JSA This follows Freedom's Landing, Freedom's Choice, and Freedom's Challenge, in which humans are taken as slaves to an uninhabited planet they call Botany. They survive and with the help of a similarly stranded alien, they overthrow their
- YA biblio-bullish trends: the sand in the oyster.(young adult books)(Industry...
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Campbell, Patty January 1, 2004 700+ words
...interested to see that young adult literature has also been...reason. At that time young adult publishing was in trouble...Fleischman, and Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy...this winter they added a young adult line under Elise Howard...
- Dragonsblood.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Scordato, Julie September 1, 2005 700+ words
DRAGONSBLOOD. (Anne McCaffrey's Dragon-riders of Pern.) Todd McCaffrey. 2004. Read by Dick Hill. 12 cds. 15 hrs...illness striking dragons as dangerous thread falls. McCaffrey flashes back to a time closer to Dragons-dawn...
- Freedom's Ransom.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Tibbetts, Sally M. March 1, 2003 700+ words
Anne McCaffrey. 2002. Read by Dick Hill. 6 tapes...25. Vinyl; plot, reader notes. JS McCaffrey's fourth book in the Freedom series...some real verbal acrobatics. Fans of McCaffrey's wonderful SF and fantasy work will...
- The Color of Absence: Twelve Stories about Loss and Hope.(Review)(Young Adult...
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine MCCAFFREY, BRIDGET September 1, 2001 700+ words
...Shihab Nye, and a collaborative effort from Jacqueline Woodson and Chris Lynch, excerpted from a novel-in-progress. Young adult readers will appreciate that while some of the stories end with the bleakness of loss, others end with the suggestion that...
- A Gift of Dragons.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Forgash, Sherri March 1, 2003 700+ words
Anne McCaffrey. 2002. Read by Lee Merriwether. 5 cds. 6 hrs. Random House Audio...of Pern," "Ever the Twain." Plastic; plot, author notes. JSA McCaffrey takes us into the magical, whimsical world where dragons are adorable...
- Paolini, Christopher. Eragon.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Winship, Michele July 1, 2005 700+ words
...9.95. JS* To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2003: Paolini takes a little Tolkien, a little McCaffrey, a coming-of-age quest, and combines them with some wicked good storytelling in this first book of his trilogy Fifteen...