Kliatt back issues from January 2004:
The novel novel: a look at alternative formats in today's YA literature.
Jan 01, 2004; ... While the standard stylistic form for a YA novel--20 or so linear chapters that tell the story of boy X or girl Y from either the first person or third person perspective--has not disappeared from the canon of the genre, a new breed of novels has taken the YA world by storm. This new breed ...
Bray, Libba. A great and terrible beauty.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Delacorte. 403p. c2004. 0-38573028-4. $15.95. JS The cover is compelling: a photograph of the back of a young woman dressed in old-fashioned corsets. It is historical fiction, perhaps better described as gothic fiction. The time is 1895; the action begins in India, ...
Colfer, Eoin. The eternity code.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Hyperion. 309p. c2003. 078681914-6. $16.95. J * In his third outing (following Artemis Fowl and Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident), 13-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has promised his newly reformed father that he'll go straight too. But there's just one last job that ...
Colfer, Eoin. The wish list.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Hyperion. 252p. c20O0, c2003. 078681863-8. $16.95. JS * When a nasty teenage boy named Belch and his even nastier dog Raptor involve 14-year-old Meg in the attempted robbery of an old man, an unexpected explosion occurs. Meg, Belch, and Raptor are blown up and their souls are ...
Cooley, Beth. Ostrich eye.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Delacorte. 181 p. c2004. 0-385-73106-X. $15.95. J Ginger is the narrator, a young teen who lives with her mother, her stepfather, and her younger half-sister, Vivian. She is hardworking, helpful, responsible--all good things. But she does yearn to know more about ...
Corder, Zizou. Lionboy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Penguin Putnam, Dial. 288p. c2003. 0-8037-2982-0. $15.99. J In a future world in which fuel for cars or planes is rare (though cell phones abound), a boy named Charlie lives happily in London with his British mother and West African father, both scientists. Then one day he ...
Durbin, William. Blackwater Ben.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Wendy Lamb Books. 200p. bibliog. c2003.0-385-72928-6. $15.95. J The year is 1898, and 13-year-old Ben drops out of school to join his father at Blackwater Logging Camp. Pa is the cook, and Ben is the hardworking cook's helper, peeling potatoes, washing dishes, and ...
Jinks, Catherine. Pagan's crusade & Pagan in exile.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... JINKS, Catherine. Pagan's crusade. Candlewick. 248p. maps. c1992, 2003.0-7636-2019-X. $15.99. JS JINKS, Catherine. Pagan in exile. Candlewick. 336p. maps. c1994, 2003.0-7636-2020-3. $15.99. JS Street urchin Pagan Kidrouk, age 16, desperate for money and a way off the ...
Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira-kira.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Simon & Schuster, Atheneum. 244p. c2004. 0-68985639-3. $15.95. J Kadohata is a successful writer of short stories published in The New Yorker and other magazines, and she has written a highly praised novel, The Floating World. In this book for younger YAs, she turns to the ...
Korman, Gordon. Jake, reinvented.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Hyperion. 213p. c2003. 0-7868-1957-X. $15.99. S In this homage to The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald High has a new student, Jake Garrett, who throws the best parties and is considered the coolest guy in town. He dresses like "he'd just waltzed off the pages of the J. Crew ...
Major, Kevin. Ann and Seamus.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Art by David Blackwood. Groundwood. 109p. illus. c2003. 0-88899-561-X. $16.95. JS This exquisitely produced book, by two famous Canadians, one a writer, the other an artist, tells about a historic event: the rescue in 1828 of 163 passengers shipwrecked off the coast of ...
Mass, Wendy. Leap Day.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Little, Brown. 212p. c2004. 0-316-53728-4. $16.95. JS It's February 29th, and Josie Taylor is turning 16 but having her "fourth" birthday. Her family goes all out to celebrate her special leap year day, and Josie is looking forward to taking her driver's exam, nabbing the part ...
McNamee, Graham. Acceleration.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Wendy Lamb Books. 210p. c2003. 0385-73119-1. $15.95. JS The dramatic cover of a young man's eyes staring ahead will grab potential readers for this thriller, set in Toronto. It is written by the author of Hate You, which was an ALA Best Book for YAs. The narrator ...
Moriarty, Jaclyn. The year of secret assignments.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Scholastic. 344p. c2004. 0439-49881-3. $16.95. JS * A wonderfully imaginative, difficult to describe novel from the author of Feeling Sorry for Celia, and any readers familiar with that first novel will grab eagerly for this new one. Basically, it is a school story, set in ...
Moses, Shelia P. The legend of Buddy Bush.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Simon & Schuster. 216p. illus, c2004. 0-689-85839-6. $15.95. JS Moses has written poetry and plays; she is co-author of Dick Gregory's memoir Callus on my Soul. In this novel for YAs she returns to her childhood home for the setting: Rehobeth Road in Rich Square. North Carolina, ...
Paulsen, Gary. Brian's hunt.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Wendy Lamb Books. 112p. c2004. 0385-74647-4. $14.95. (lib. bdg.: 0-385-90882-2. $16.99). J * Brian, hero of Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter and Brian's Return, is now 16, and he has once again abandoned civilization for the solitude and beauty of the northern ...
Philbrick, Rodman. The young man and the sea.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Scholastic, Blue Sky Press. 191p. c2004. 0-439-36829-4. $16.95. J * This is a great adventure; a fishing story, a survival story; it will appeal to readers of Paulsen's Hatchet series, to Boy Scouts, and to others interested in outdoor skills. It is told by a narrator, Skiff, in ...
Reuter, Bjarne. The ring of the slave prince.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Tr. from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally. Penguin Putnam, Dutton. 410p. c2000, c2003. 0-525-47146-4. $21.99. JS The year is 1639, and 14-year-old Tom dreams of finding sunken treasure in order to free his mother and sister from their life of servitude at an inn on the Caribbean ...
Rinaldi, Ann, Sarah's ground.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Simon & Schuster. 176p. c2004. 0-689-85924-4. $15.95. JS Every few months, it seems. Rinaldi gives us another historical novel. This one is an unusual situation, based on a true story. It takes place during the Civil War. The main character, Sarah, is from the North, but she has ...
Son, John. Finding my hat.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... (First Person Fiction.) Scholastic, Orchard. 183p. 0-43943538-2. $16.95. JS John Son adds the inspiration of his own family's immigrant experience to this excellent series: John's parents were born in Korea; he was born in Germany (like his protagonist Jin-Han) and immigrated ...
Stahler, David Truesight.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... HarperCollins, Eos. 192p. c2004. 0-06-052285-2. $15.99. (Library: 0-06-052286-0. $16.89.) J In the isolated community of Harmony Station, on the planet of Nova Campi, everyone is blind--a deliberate act of genetic engineering. Sight is considered "a deception, a distraction," ...
Wallace, Karen. Wendy.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Simon & Schuster. 307p. c2003. 0-689-86769-7 $16.95. J You remember the Darling family from Peter Pan--Wendy is the oldest, with two younger brothers, and a beloved dog, Nana. Perhaps to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Peter Pan, and to coincide with a new ...
Whitney, Kim Ablon. See you down the road, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Knopf. 186p. c2004. 0-375-82467-7. $1799. JS In all my years of reading YA literature, I can't remember any other book about Travelers--Gypsies--in the US. Whitney says in an Author's Note that she became interested in the Travelers from newspaper accounts, did ...
Williams-Garcia, Rita. No laughter here.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Harper Collins, Amistad. 133p. c2004. 0-688-16247-9. $15.99. J Akilah Hunter is spending her tenth summer looking forward to the return of her best friend Victoria Ojike from Nigeria, and to the start of fifth grade, but not to getting her first period, even though her mother ...
Zinnen, Linda. Holding at third.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Dutton, Penguin Putnam. 160p. c2004. 0-525-47163-4. $15.99. J At thirteen, Matt is a baseball star, dominating center field and hitting up a storm. But when his beloved older brother Tom has to go to another town for treatment for his bone cancer, Matt has no hesitation about ...
Acker, Rick. The lost treasure of Fernando Montoya.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... (The Davis Detective Mysteries). Kregel. 188p. c2003. 0-8254-2005-9. $7.99. J Although they are teenagers, Kirstin and Arthur Davis have a track record as successful detectives. Their month of vacation with a relative in San Francisco while their parents are on a cruise turns ...
Asai, Carrie. The book of the pearl.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... (Samurai Girl, BookThree). Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 229p. c2003.0-689-86432-9. $6.99. S A six-month-old baby was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents, making her Japan's most celebrated orphan. She is named Heaven and adopted by an affluent, influential ...
Axelsson, Majgull. April witch, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House. 419p. c2002. 0-8129-6688-0. $12.95. A Desiree Johanssen is the "April Witch," defined by Axelsson as a person with "a weak and disabled body but a very strong mind" (p.411). She was born brain damaged, which resulted in both epilepsy and paralysis. In a very short ...
Barclift, Betty. Gypsy summer, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Kregel. 154p. c2003. 0-8254-2038-5. $6.99. J Thirteen-year-old Katie Barnes and her family have some bad luck when her father's job disappears. Loading the whole family in the car, they set out from Kansas to the Puget Sound area. Living in a tent on a campground, Katie is ...
Bechard, Margaret. Hanging on to Max.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Simon & Schuster. 204p. 2002. 0-689-86268-7. $6.99. JS * TO quote from the review in KLIATT, May 2002: 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 father and ...
Cooney, Caroline B. Goddess of yesterday.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Dell Laurel-Leaf. 263p. maps. c2002. 0-440-22930-8. $5.99. JS * To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, July 2002: This is the most ambitious novel I have read by Cooney. known for her ever-popular works like the series that starts with The Face on the Milk ...
Dokey, Cameron. How not to spend your senior year.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 293p. c2004. 0-689-86703-4. $5.99. JS From Cameron Dokey, the talented author of over 25 YA novels, comes an innovative, unusual "can't-put-this-down" story. When senior wallflower Jo O'Connor finally questions why she and her father move so often (20 ...
Efaw, Amy. Battle dress.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... HarperCollins, Trophy. 382p. c2000. 0-06-053520-2. $6.99. JS Author Amy Efaw, a real-life graduate of West Point, has written a gripping novel about 17-year-old Andi Davis, who leaves her abusive and dysfunctional family and flees to the discipline of West Point. Like all ...
Friesen, Gayle. Losing forever.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Kids Can Read Press. 247p. c2002. 1-55337-032-5. $6.95. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November 2002: 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," but the ...
Heneghan, James. Torn away.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Orca. 256p. c2003. 1-55143-263-3. $6.95. JS Declan Doyle is a teenage boy from Northern Ireland who has one goal in life: to avenge the deaths of his father, mother, and younger sister. He is a member of the Holy Terrors, a children's street gang that is a branch of the IRA, and ...
Hua, Yu. To live, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Tr. by Michael Berry. Random House, Anchor. 250p. c1993. 1-4000-3186-9. $13.00. SA Using the device of an unnamed boy narrator sent to collect folk, songs from the Chinese countryside, this novel actually tells the heartrending story of a privileged son, Fugui, who gambles away ...
Johnston, Julie. Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Tundra. 220p, c1994. 0-88776-648-X. $9.95. JS With the republication of this riveting coming-of-age novel, Tundra Books revives a memorable piece of YA literature. As pertinent today as it was almost ten years ago, this book reveals the innermost thoughts of 15-year-old Sara ...
Johnston, Julie. Hero of lesser causes.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Tundra. 222p. c1992. 0-88776-649-8. $9.95. J * Originally published about ten years ago, and a winner of the Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Award, this gem of historical fiction presents the polio scare in a personal and engrossing narrative. It is the ...
Johnston, Wayne. The navigator of New York.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Anchor. 483p. c2002. 1-4000-3109-5. $15.95. SA Devlin Stead is a lonely boy in Newfoundland. Canada in the late 19th century who was labeled in his community as abandoned by his exploration-obsessed physician father. After his mother dies mysteriously, Devlin goes ...
Keizer, Garret. God of beer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... HarperTempest. 242p. c2002. 0-06-447276-0. $6.99. S To quote from the hardcover review in KLIATT, January 2002: The title of this novel certainly catches your eye. What can it mean? Seniors at a small-town high school in Vermont realize that beer is like a religion in their ...
Matheson, Shirlee Smith. Fastback Beach.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Orca. 97p. c2003. 1-55143-267-6. $7.95. JS Cliched but likable story of a troubled teen saved by the affection of an elderly friend and the love of a good girl. Miles' delinquent friends Larry and Spider take him joyriding in a stolen Mustang. When the car crashes, Miles' ...
Merullo, Roland. In Revere, in those days.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Vintage Contemporaries. 302p. c2002. 0-375-71405-7. $13.00. SA Roland Merulla's coming-of-age novel has an authenticity that sings from every page, from its vivid description of the working class town of Revere, Massachusetts in the '60s to its portrayal of ...
Morck, Irene. Tough trails.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Orca. 96p. c2003. 1-55143-271-4. $7.95. JS 17-year-old Ambrose follows his heart and saves a horse in this lightweight feel-gooder. Ambrose has been spending this summer working for his uncle, leading tourists in the trails of Alberta's Rockies. When his beloved packhorse rips a ...
Moses, Kate. Wintering, a novel of Sylvia Plath.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Anchor. 313p. c2003. 1-4000-3500-7. $13.00. SA This novel is a fictionalized account of the last few months of the famous American poet Sylvia Plath's life. Moses has researched and studied Plath's work and life and has written a wonderfully dense and lyrical ...
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Achingly Alice.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 149p. c1998. 0-689-86396-9. $4.99. J To quote from the hardcover review in KLIATT, September 1998: Good middle-school fare, with Naylor continuing with her ninth book about Alice as she grows up. In this one, Alice is hoping that her widowed father ...
Nguyen, Kien. The tapestries, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Little Brown, Back Bay. 310p. c2002. 0-316-73560-4. $13.95. SA Nguyen is the author of the fine memoir Unwanted (reviewed in KLIATT, May 2002). He came to America from Vietnam in 1985 as an older teenager, has completed his studies here and is a dentist--quite a remarkable ...
Olafsson, Olaf. Absolution, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Anchor. 259p. c1994. 1-4000-3068-4. $13.00. SA In a manuscript discovered after his death, an old man remembers a time in his youth when he committed a crime against another man who he felt stole his girlfriend and made him look like a fool. The manuscript was ...
Otsuka, Julie. When the emperor was divine, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Anchor. 144p. c2002. 0-385-72181-1. $9.95. SA Otsuka has created an intriguing story about Japanese internment during WW II. This powerful book is characterized by sparse, contained prose detailing the lives of a Japanese American family in California. The reader ...
Quindlen, Anna. Blessings, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, 237p. c2002. 0-8129-6981-2. $13.95. SA Blessings is the name of an estate owned by an aging, ornery matriarch, Lydia Blessing. One day someone drops off an infant at this estate assuming she will get excellent care. The handyman, who just happens to be an ex-con, ...
Tartt, Donna. The little friend.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House. 624p. c2002. 1-4000-3169-9. $14.95. SA Tartt's first novel, A Secret History, was a surprise bestseller. This one is just as long and complex as her first, but it takes place in the South and her characters are younger. Her main character is a 12-year-old girl ...
Tobin, Tobi. Door to door, a novel.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Pocket Books, MTV. 259p. c2003. 0-7434-6496-6. $11.95. S You can open many doors in your life, but it's the ones that you shut that will make the difference. For Tobi, life in the fast lane is what it is all about. It doesn't matter who she hurts and where she has to go--she is ...
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta. The girl from the coast, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Hyperion. 280p. c2002. 0-7868-8708-7. $13.50. A Told by a girl whose name we never discover, this is the story of a beautiful young woman from a poor fishing family who is given in marriage to a wealthy Indonesian aristocrat. Left alone with servants in a house in the city, she ...
Velasquez, Gloria L. Teen angel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... (Roosevelt High). Arte Publico Press, Univ of Houston. 153p. c2003. 1-55885-391-X. $9.95. J The author's Roosevelt High series (Juanita Fights the School Board, Tommy Stands Alone, etc.) turns to the issue of unwanted teenage pregnancy and explores how a 15-year-old Latina, her ...
Wheeler, Richard S. Eclipse; a novel of Lewis and Clark.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Tor, Forge. 380p. c2002. 0-765-30876-2. $15.95. SA Picking up at the end of their journey, the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives at the city of St. Louis tired and filthy from their multi-year trek. While deftly alternating chapters between the first-person voice of Meriwether ...
Bradshaw, Gillian. The wrong reflection.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Penguin, Berkley, Ace. 362p. c2000. 0-441-01097-0. $6.50. SA Rescued from drowning in his car, Paul Anderson wakes up with amnesia, but also with an absolute certainty that, whoever he is, it isn't Anderson. His desperate fear of his boss at Stellar Industries leads him and the ...
Brown, Simon. Inheritance.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... (Book One of Keys of Power). DAW. 424p. c2000. 0-7564-0162-3. $6.99. SA In this delightful fantasy, Queen Usharna is the holder of the four Keys of Power in Grenda Lear. On her deathbed, the Queen presents one of the keys to each of her children. Berayma, the heir to the throne, ...
David, Peter. Gods above.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... (Star Trek New Frontier). Pocket Books. 330p. c2003. 0-7434-1858-1. $6.99. JSA This is the 13th volume in the exciting Star Trek: New Frontier series about the adventures of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the USS. Excalibur. Since Peter David has written all of the books in this ...
de Lint, Charles. Tapping the dream tree; new tales of Newford.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Tor. 541p. c2002. 0-312-86840-5. $15.95. SA This is a compilation of 18 stories copyrighted from 1998 to 2002 that feature characters from de Lint's fictional town of Newford, anytown USA, where magic holds sway. Some of the characters have been featured before in Newford tales ...
Duane, Diane. A wizard alone.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Harcourt, Magic Carpet. 333p. c2002. 0-15-204911-8. $6.95. JS At the beginning of this installment in the Young Wizards series, Nita is mourning the recent death of her mother and is putting most of her energy into holding herself and the rest of her family together. Kit and his ...
Francis, Diana Pharaoh. Path of fate.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Penguin Putnam, Roc. 369p. 2003. 0-451-45950-4. $6.99. SA Abandoned Reisil has been trained as a tark: a healer. She is just starting to feel comfortable with her efforts, the village, and a possible lover. Then a black-and-white goshawk tries to attach herself to Reisil ....
Grange, Jean-Christophe. The stone council.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Tr. by Ian Monk. Random House, Vintage. 373p. c2001. 1-86046-996-5. $11.95. SA Thirty-year-old ethnologist Diane Thiberger travels to Thailand to adopt an Asian orphan. Diane is determinedly single because she cannot stand to be touched since she was raped in her youth. Still, ...
Halam, Ann. Dr. Franklin's Island.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Random House, Dell, Laurel-Leaf. 245p. c2002. 0-440-23781-5. $5.50. JS To quote the hardcover review in KLIATT, July 2002: When their plane crashes somewhere off the coast of South America, three teenage science students on the way to a wildlife conservation station are ...
Hamill, Pete. Forever.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Little Brown, Back Bay. 613p. c2003. 0-316-73569-8. $14.95. SA Cormac O'Connor is a young man with many secrets. His mother was a secret Jew in 1730s Ireland, his father a pagan Irishman following the old gods in secret as he and his wife adopt Protestant names and attend the ...
Nix, Garth. Mister Monday.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... (The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1). Scholastic. 361p. c2003. 0-439-55123-4. $5.99. JS Close to death from an asthma attack, Arthur Penhaligan is given a book and a key (the minute hand of a clock). In this instant, he becomes involved in a magical struggle between "the will" and ...
Oltion, Jerry. The getaway special.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Tor. 400p. c2001. 0-312-87778-1. $15.95. SA Traveling faster than the speed of light? That's for amateurs--and mad scientist Allen Meisner. Stowing his hyperdrive engine aboard a US spaceship, Allen whisks the crew to Saturn and beyond in a matter of minutes. Of course, he's ...