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BOOK REVIEWS

Ghost Boy

By Iain Lawrence

Life hasn’t been easy for 14 year-old Harold Kline. He’s spent his childhood being victimized by schoolyard toughs because he’s an albino with plaster-white skin, snowy white hair, and thick glasses with black lenses to ... Read More »

February 17, 2004

After Hamelin

By Bill Richardson

The story of Hamelin, rid of its plague of rats by a mysterious piper who then entices away the town’s children when the mayor refuses to pay the promised 500 gold ducats, is a well-known ... Read More »

February 17, 2004

★ Before Wings

By Beth Goobie

In Beth Goobie’s latest novel, Before Wings, 15-year-old Adrien struggles with the aftermath of a brain aneurysm. Numb with fear of “the Big One” that doctors predict will finish her off, she entombs herself in ... Read More »

February 17, 2004

Raspberry House Blues

By Linda Holeman

Overheard conversation between two mothers of teenage girls:“How’s your daughter?”“She’s fifteen.”Rueful smile and wordless look of deep sympathy.The relationship between adolescent girls and their mothers seems to be a vexed affair and is thus rich ... Read More »

February 17, 2004