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Volume 32, Number 2, December 2004

Junior fiction

Betty Winslow

Mind Games & Memories

Escape from memory. Margaret Peterson Haddix. Simon & Schuster, 2003. $16.95. 0-68985-421-8. Grades 6-8.
Kira Landon grew up thinking she and her mom left California for Ohio after her dad’s death, until hypnotism during a party game releases memories of gunfire and strangely familiar foreign words. Then her mom disappears...

For all time. Caroline Cooney. Delacorte, 2001. $15.95. 0-385-32773-0. Grades 6-8.
When Annie tries to go from 1999 New York City to 1899 Cairo in search of the young man she fell in love with during previous time travels, she ends up in big trouble in ancient Egypt instead.

Gathering blue. Lois Lowry. Walter Lorraine Books, 2000. $16.00. 0-61805-581-9. Grades 4-6.
Kira, a lame and homeless orphan, is taken to live in the Council Edifice in exchange for working on the embroidered pictures that contain the memories of her world’s repressive and technology-free society.

Invitation to the games. Monica Hughes. Sagebrush, 1999. $13.00. 0-78571-191-0. Grades 6-8.
Teen graduates in 2154 are assigned jobs or government welfare for the rest of their lives. Lissa and her friends prefer “The Game,” where virtual reality beats real life. But is it more than a game?

LightLand. H.L. McCutchen. Orchard, 2002. $16.95. 0-439-39565-8. Grades 4-6.
Lottie’s dad makes a magical storybox to hold her memories. Instead, a rainbow-colored bird takes her through it into LightLand, where the Nightking is stealing people’s memories and only she and her friend Lewis can stop him.

Betty Winslow: Media Center Directory, Bowling Green Christian Academy, Bowling Green OH.
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