By Agnes Regan Perkins
Written for librarians, academics, and researchers, this can be the second one five-year complement to the authors' Dictionary of yank kid's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986). Its 567 entries conceal 189 award-winning kid's books by way of 136 authors released from 1990 to 1994. incorporated are concise severe reports of novels, biographical profiles of authors, and outlines of memorable characters. An appendix lists books by way of the awards they've got received, and an in depth index permits whole entry to the wealth of fabric contained inside of this reference work.Included are alphabetically prepared entries for these works that critics have singled out to obtain awards or have put on quotation lists throughout the 5 years lined via the amount. The reference additionally includes biographical entries for prime authors of kid's fiction, with entries targeting how the author's existence pertains to kid's literature and to specific works during this dictionary. the amount offers a listing of awards, in addition to an appendix classifying person works through the awards they've got received. an intensive index presents complete entry to the wealth of knowledge during this e-book.
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THE BORNING ROOM (Fleischman*, Paul, HarperCollins, 1991), historical novel of family life set from 1851 to 1918 in Ohio on the Stillwater River, near Lanesville. Georgina Caroline Lott recounts the major events of her family as THE BRAVE 35 they occur in or involve the ‘‘borning room,’’ a small room set aside for illness and childbirth. She is born there, and eight and a half years later, when her mother unexpectedly starts in labor, she helps Cora, a runaway slave she has hidden in the barn, deliver her brother, Zebulon.
Late in the spring, while swimming in the creek, Jess finds intact the box of coins, which she now knows are valuable. The various segments of this posthumously published story are ineptly knit, the climax fight with Hawkins is sensationalized and confusing, and the conclusion is abrupt. The main problem with which Jess struggles—how much loyalty she owes to her father— is set in relief by her deep affection for her dog, in whom she confides and with whom she discusses problems; her gradual understanding of Wrong Man’s character and motives; and her awakening sexuality and increasing attraction to Drury, a teenaged neighbor.
She is hurt when he dumps her after Bambi* Sue Bordtz tells him that she has cancer. Later she forgives him, realizing that he is just afraid, and longs to go to the school graduation party with him, getting a new dress for the occasion, and is almost ready to invite him when he invites her. When, after Helen’s death, Jessie accuses him of betraying her sister, he replies that he was scared and an idiot and weeps. His tears point up Jessie’s inability to cry over her loss. BODEAN PEYTON (Dixie Storms*), Robert Dean Peyton, Dutch Peyton’s nephew, 9, son of Flood* Peyton and his ex-wife, Becky*.
