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Record W4251158034 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2015.0661

A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord (review)

2015· article· en· W4251158034 on OpenAlex
Deborah Stevenson

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInterdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStarsAstronomyArtPhysics

Abstract

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Reviewed by: A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord Deborah Stevenson Lord, Cynthia A Handful of Stars. Scholastic, 2015 [192p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-545-70027-6 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-545-70029-0 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R* Gr. 3-5 It’s a dog that brings Lily and Salma together: when Lucky, Lily’s ancient blind Labrador retriever, bolts for the road, Salma, one of the migrant workers picking Maine blueberries, lures him to safety with her sandwich. Soon a friendship blossoms between the two twelve-year-olds, and artistic Salma helps Lily decorate crafted bee houses to sell at the blueberry festival in order to raise funds for cataract surgery for Lucky. Salma also decides to enter the Downeast Blueberry Queen pageant, a move that breaks racial barriers but puts Lily, whose best friend is trying for a repeat victory, in an awkward position. Lord writes with a quiet naturalness that allows multiple plot facets to emerge without becoming messagey or heavy-handed. The treatment of Salma’s migrant life is matter-of-fact but direct, and Lily plausibly deals [End Page 35] with possibilities of local racism and swells with indignation on behalf of her new friend. Motherless Lily’s occasional longing for a maternal figure (“It made me all messed up inside to have someone treat me like a daughter”) is poignant, and her eventual Salma-encouraged shift in her approach to Lucky fits smoothly with her character growth. It’s the straightforward and unaffected prose (highly suitable for a readaloud as well as reading alone) that really allows Lily’s story to shine, though, and it’s hard to resist joining her on her journey toward greater maturity. Copyright © 2015 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)0.002
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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.400
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.243 · 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