Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: Borderline Maggie Hommel Stratton, Allan. Borderline. HarperTeen, 2010 [320p]. Library ed. ISBN 978-0-06-145112-6 $17.89 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-145111-9 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 9-12 Mohammed Sami Sabiri, called Sami, has always felt like an outsider in his suburban Rochester home because of his Islamic faith and traditional Iranian parents. A recent incident involving Mary Louise Prescott's bra has landed him in private high school and away from his only friends, Andy and Marty. There he is tormented by bully Eddy "Duh Turd" and administrators who value alumni funds over students' rights, though he finds a friend in gay teacher Mr. Bernstein. Chafing under his father's rules, he rebels with a clandestine boat trip to Andy's family cottage in Canada. Shortly after, Sami's world is shattered as FBI agents ransack his family's home and arrest his father, director of a research lab, on charges of consorting with a known terrorist cell. The ensuing media storm and wild accusations against his father leave Sami determined to find out the truth. On one level the book is fast-paced suspense; on another, an examination of xenophobia toward Muslim-Americans (and -Canadians) and the resulting oppression of even innocent citizens. Plenty of male teen wit—"his cheeks are flapping so hard, his ass'll get windburn"—makes it an engaging and solid portrayal of guy friendship as well. Though the book goes a little over the top with its messages and plot contrivances, it struggles to examine some issues that haven't gotten much play in young adult literature, and it pushes readers to question what is real in the face of fear, intolerance and media frenzies around depictions of terrorists, just as Sami is forced to question his own father. A timely addition to YA lit about Muslim Americans, this will find an audience among those hungry for insight or commiseration. Copyright © 2010 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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.214 | 0.088 |
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".