(3) K-3 Illustrated by Leo Dillon & Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon & Diane Dillon. Soft, full-page illustrations depict Martha, a lost, pregnant cow, searching for a warm place on a cold winter's night. Smaller illustrations resembling woodcuts portray a parallel journey, made by a man and his pregnant wife. The two stories intersect when both cow and woman find shelter and give birth in the same small shed. Text and art tell a lyrical, unusual Nativity story.

Reviewer: Charlotte S. Huck

(2) YA Parallel universes and Greek mythology form an ominous matrix in this story of a teenager who doesn't know which is more real, his dream life or his waking life. Is the Minotaur's maze simply a metaphor for the anger and hopelessness Gregory has felt ever since his father's suicide? Or is it an actual, horrific place? The conjoined plots supply ample suspense as they careen toward intersection.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2001

(2) YA Summer camper Andy finds himself falling under the influence of Johnny, a reckless counselor. Andy is presented with a moral dilemma when he learns that Johnny was involved in an altercation with another counselor, who then dies in an apparent drowning. The sense of impending doom in this dark coming-of-age novel will keep the reader engaged to the end.

Reviewer: Nancy Vasilakis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 1999