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Record W4242938664 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2006.0093

Drift House: The First Voyage (review)

2006· article· en· W4242938664 on OpenAlex
Karen Coats

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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTravel Writing and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAdventureJunglePeck (Imperial)Art historyPlot (graphics)HistoryQueen (butterfly)ArtArchaeology

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Drift House: The First Voyage Karen Coats Peck, Dale Drift House: The First Voyage. Bloomsbury, 2005437p ISBN 1-58234-969-X$16.95 Ad Gr. 5-8 After 9/11, Susan, Charles, and Murray are sent to Canada to stay with their uncle Farley in his mansion on the shores of the Bay of Eternity. Little do they know that the house is really a transtemporal vessel and that they will soon find themselves adrift on the Sea of Time. Here, some rather nasty mermaids enlist Susan to rescue their sister from Sea Pirates; when she handily accomplishes this feat, the mermaids' Queen Octavia (who is more octopus than mermaid) then forces her to set off on the real mission—to stop time altogether by closing the Great Drain in the Sea of Time, at the cost of her life. A wise whale, a crusty multilingual parrot, Susan's brothers, and the head Sea Pirate himself all help to thwart the mermaids' plans and restore navigation capability to Drift House, with the promise of more adventures to come. The children are a rather clichéd ensemble—shades of classic children's fantasy from Nesbit to Lewis to L'Engle, etc., render familiar the haughty, resourceful elder sibling, the mechanically handy but sullen middle child, and the strangely wise-beyond-his-years youngest. Their language takes its rhythms from these older fantasies as well, such that Peck feels the need to turn their overly formal dialect into a plot device by having Susan and Charles constantly bicker over who is being more affected, and to include a glossary that tries a bit too hard to replace mid-century Britishisms and genteelisms with up-to-date slang (for instance, defining "insolent" as "trash talk"). Peck would do better to trust his audience on this point; those who enjoy the kind of salty sea adventure he delivers here are unlikely to quibble with some highfalutin dialogue. His explanations about the mechanics of time and the dangers of its cessation do leave something to be desired, however, making this a comparatively lightweight yarn in the tradition it seeks to emulate. Copyright © 2006 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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
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 score0.592
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.003
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0030.001
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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.185
Teacher spread0.178 · 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