Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: Pine Island Home by Polly Horvath Deborah Stevenson, Editor Horvath, Polly Pine Island Home. Ferguson/Holiday House, 2020 [240p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780823447855 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780823448838 $9.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 4-7 After sisters Fiona, Marlin, Natasha, and Charlie are orphaned, they're sent to stay with their great-aunt Martha on a Canadian island; unfortunately, they arrive in British Columbia to discover Martha's just died. Since she was their last resort and they're determined to avoid being split up, they decide to stay in Martha's house and fly under the radar ("If they didn't tell anyone they were living without a grown-up, who was to know?"). Eventually they're helped by the kind local teacher and by their grumpy, much-less-kind neighbor Al, who are in on the secret, but fourteen-year-old Fiona still struggles to keep her family together and provide for them as they need. Horvath fans will recognize her recurring subject of kids outside of traditional adult care, and the book deftly balances a twenty-first century setting with a classic orphan-story feel. Indeed, the story gains impact from the tension between the girls' belief in a storybook solution to their plight and the realities of loss ("The frightening knowledge that people you were a part of could be just gone") and a situation that is just too much for them to handle. The girls are well distinguished as characters, and there's plenty of humor in witty turns of phrase and their eccentric lives. Ultimately, it's an appealing domestic survival story with a slice of reality, bound to appeal to youngsters who contemplate an adult-free life. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".