Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: Bonechiller Deborah Stevenson McNamee, Graham; Bonechiller. Lamb, 2008; [304p] Library ed. ISBN 978-0-385-90895-5 $18.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-385-74658-8 $15.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 7–12 Since the death of his mother, Danny and his father have been moving around a lot, and the chilly emptiness of upper Ontario is Danny’s new home. Danny finds himself liking it there, bolstered by his friendship with gentle Howie, his semi-crazy older brother, Pike, and tough, beautiful Ash, who KO’ed him in the boxing ring at their first meeting, and with whom he’d like to be more than friends. Danny has bigger things to worry about, though, when a huge pale monster hunts him down one night, leaving his mark on the teen; soon Howie’s marked as well, and the friends [End Page 88] begin to realize that the monster is a historic evil that’s been seizing young people for centuries, and that soon, if they can’t figure out a way to fight back, he’ll reel Danny and Howie in to their doom. The classic elements of a good supernatural thriller are all present and accounted for here—the sympathetic protagonist-cum-victim with a haunted past, the evil with a resume dating from time immemorial and the folktales to prove it, and even the lone survivor of a past attack—and the vividly realized winter landscape makes for both a literally and figuratively chilling setting. The plot’s architecture is carefully constructed, with even seemingly throwaway details becoming relevant in the high-action climax, and Danny’s increasingly passionate relationship with Ash and his grieving for his lost mother provide additional character development and encourage greater reader investment. This will be an easy booktalk and a splendidly enjoyable read sure to please those who respond with both hope and dread when things go bump in the night. Copyright © 2008 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.171 | 0.102 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".