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Patneaude, David
5 Reviews
(3)
YA
At the end of the twenty-first century, men have been almost wiped out by a mysterious airborne virus called Elisha's Bear. Women rule, and they seem to have improved all aspects of society. However, Kellen Dent, a teenage boy, discovers that this new world order hides a disturbing secret beneath its pristine façade. Patneaude's futuristic vision is well developed.
Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter
(4)
4-6
Fourteen-year-old Russell, his friend Phoebe and her brother Isaac (who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder), and blind ex-con Legs Leland search for a meteorite discovered by Russell's ancestor in 1856 (relayed in flashbacks). The search for the elusive but valuable "piece of the sky" involves adventure, intrigue, and death. The conclusion is weak, but the readable text is fast paced.
Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg
(4)
4-6
Fourteen-year-old Casey bears a physical and an emotional scar from the car accident that killed her mother nine years earlier. This sturdily written book's mystery--who keeps mailing Casey cash every year on the anniversary of the accident?--is absorbing but sidelined by the attention lavished on Casey's preparation for and participation in a basketball championship.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
(3)
4-6
Joe is a happy, well-adjusted eleven-year-old living near Seattle. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, he and his Japanese-American family suddenly become the enemy. Joe's anger and confusion, the prejudice he faces in his small community, and his forced relocation to an internment camp are all handled realistically in this moving novel.
Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman
(3)
4-6
As sixth-grader Nelson and his baseball team train at Phantom Limb Park, they find puzzling yet encouraging messages scratched in the dirt at home plate. The boys and their (college-age, female) coach wonder if these communications are from Andy Kirk, a young baseball fan who died in an accident at the park during the 1940s. Sports fiction and ghost story are effectively combined in the well-paced novel.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta
5 reviews
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