Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: Gil Marsh Karen Coats Bauer, A. C. E. . Gil Marsh. Random House, 2012. [192p]. Library ed. ISBN 978-0-375-96933-1 $15.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-375-86933-4 $15.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-375-98311-5 $10.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 7-10. Smart, athletic, and well liked, Gil works hard to deserve his good reputation. After initial jealousy, he forms a deep friendship with an equally talented and good-natured newcomer, Enko. Soon Enko is diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia that takes his life; before he dies, he gives Gil a garnet ring, a family heirloom made by a supposedly immortal blacksmith in the countryside north of Quebec. A griefstricken Gil is wounded further by learning that Enko will be buried at home in Quebec and that Gil's parents won't be taking him to visit his friend's grave for a final goodbye. Gil sets off alone for Quebec on his own on a quest to find the grave and the maker of the ring, hoping that perhaps the man's immortality is real, and that he will have the secret to bringing Enko back. As a contemporary treatment of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this has the right bones, but as a piece of young adult literature, the bones are disappointingly bare. Gil and Enko's fierce closeness develops rapidly and the book tells more than shows the relationship's significance. Gil's open talk of the deep love he bears his friend is couched in terms that more often signal a love affair in contemporary literature, so readers may misunderstand the boys' relationship as one based on homosexual feelings rather than the deeply homosocial sensibilities of the original epic. There's still reward in following his journey, however, even if it ends in closure rather than success. Aidan Chambers' classic Dance on My Grave (BCCB 8/83) is a more nuanced exploration of the same topic, but reluctant readers will find the quick pacing and well-defined themes here accessible, and the book provides some clear curricular possibility. Copyright © 2012 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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.144 | 0.093 |
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".