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Record W4244368375 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2018.0742

North to Benjamin by Alan Cumyn

2018· article· en· W4244368375 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Deborah Stevenson

Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSeriousnessPsychoanalysisDaughterArt historyHistorySociologyArtPsychologyLawPolitical science

Abstract

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Reviewed by: North to Benjamin by Alan Cumyn Deborah Stevenson Cumyn, Alan North to Benjamin. Dlouhy/Atheneum, 2018 [304p] ISBN 978-1-4814-9752-7 $17.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 4-7 Yet again, Edgar's flighty mother is bolting from a boyfriend to start a new life (and find a new man); this time she and eleven-year-old Edgar are moving from Toronto to Dawson, in the Yukon, where they'll be housesitting and dogsitting. [End Page 115] Dawson turns out to be an everybody-knows-everybody town, and Benjamin, the Newfoundland dog Edgar is tasked with caring for, is actually staying with helpful Ceese and his daughter, Caroline, who befriend Edgar and his mother. Shy Edgar bonds with Benjamin and quickly grows fond of the old Gold Rush town and its people, so he's angry and unhappy when it becomes clear that his mother is setting her sights on Ceese (who has a kind long-term girlfriend), which is sure to lead to a blow-up and yet another departure. Veteran Canadian author Cumyn brings a frosty helping of Arctic magical realism to this sympathetic novel of a boy's increasing distress at his dysfunctional family life, as Edgar develops the ability to communicate with Benjamin and other animals while finding his attempts at human speech come out only as barking. The book treats this development with full seriousness, acknowledging it as an imaginative boy's response to the situation without undercutting the authenticity of the experience. In fact, it's heartening that Edgar, who's made his way through life by trying to pass unnoticed while attention focuses on his mother, finally disrupts that pattern. Ultimately, this is an original and deeply atmospheric outing, haunted by Jack London and chilled by a Yukon spring, that will especially intrigue readers with their own affinity for dogs. DS Copyright © 2018 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Full frame distilled prediction

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, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.271
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0040.002
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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.200
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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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