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Record W4241967788 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2014.0456

Bike Thief by Rita Feutl (review)

2014· article· en· W4241967788 on OpenAlex
Elizabeth Bush

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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicDiverse Perspectives in Modern Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBrotherPlot (graphics)Front (military)Shot (pellet)Service (business)Art historyAdvertisingArtMedia studiesLawSociologyPolitical scienceBusinessEngineering

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Bike Thief by Rita Feutl Elizabeth Bush Feutl, Rita. Bike Thief. Orca, 2014. [136p] (Orca Soundings). ISBN 978-1-4598-0570-5 $16.95 ISBN 978-1-4598-0569-9 $9.95 ISBN 978-1-4598-0572-9 $9.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 7-9. Katie’s innate clumsiness has resulted in some domestic damage, and her brother, narrator Nick, is afraid that their foster parents—one of the rare families willing to take on a pair of siblings—will ask for the siblings’ reassignment. Therefore, Nick makes a quick deal with a shady dealer, Dwayne, to replace a broken TV, on the condition that Nick pays him back in service. The favor, it turns out, is to recruit and direct “runts,” underage kids with no criminal record, to steal high-end bicycles and help rebuild them at the chop shop Dwayne supervises. Naïve and desperate, Nick complies, using his love of fixed-up bikes to spot prime merchandise. It quickly becomes evident, though, that the chop shop is merely a front for a serious drug ring, and when another recruiter like Nick is beaten and kidnapped, Nick must decide whether to expose his own crimes to save the boy’s life. The compressed time frame of the episode fits well into the Orca Soundings hi-lo format, and the plot boasts notable authenticity in taking inspiration from a real-life Edmonton workspace that, according to the acknowledgments, helps kids “build and maintain their own bikes.” Details of the thieves’ m.o. are less likely to serve as instructions in larceny than as a warning to protect your own property from crimes of opportunity. This title will serve not only the hi-lo crowd but any YA reader looking for a lightning-paced super-quick pick. [End Page 516] Copyright © 2014 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.723
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0030.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it