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Volume 29, Number 2, December
2001
Young Women with Backbone. Grades 6-12
Rosemary Chance
Aria of the sea. Dia Calhoun.
Winslow, 2000. $15.95.
1-890817-25-2. In this fantasy tale 13-year-old Cerinthe
Gale earns the right to attend the School of the Royal
Dancers. She must choose between a brilliant future
as a ballet dancer and an uncertain future as a healer.
Circle of 3: So More It Be. #1. Isobel Bird.
Avon/HarperCollins,
2001. In the first of a series, three high school girls
are intrigued with the potential power of witchcraft
and how it can affect their lives and the lives of
others in their town.
Girl with a pearl earring. Tracy Chevalier.
Plume/Penguin
Group, 1999. $12.00. 0-452-28215-2. Gradually, Griet,
a 16-year-old servant, becomes Vermeer’s assistant
in his home studio. After posing as a model for one
of his most famous paintings, she leaves his house
in disgrace to make her own life in 17th century Holland.
Lirael. Garth Nix.
HarperCollins, 2001. $16.95. 0-06-027823-4.
While Lirael dwells on her self-doubts, her true destiny
is hidden from her. To her surprise she is offered
a position as a second assistant librarian. As a sword-carrying
librarian, a dangerous world requires her to fight
an ancient evel.
 Rosemary
Chance is assistant professor in the School of
Library and Information Science at the University
of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. She can
be reached at rchance@student.necc.cc.ms.us.
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