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Record W4256479139 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2016.0306

Far from Fair by Elana K. Arnold (review)

2016· article· en· W4256479139 on OpenAlex
Deborah Stevenson

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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicReligious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnthusiasmBrotherPlot (graphics)Theme (computing)WifeSubject (documents)HistoryDisappointmentHappeningArt historyLawPsychologyPolitical sciencePhilosophyTheologyPerformance artLibrary science

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Far from Fair by Elana K. Arnold Deborah Stevenson, Editor Arnold, Elana K. Far from Fair. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 [240p] ISBN 978-0-544-60227-4 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 4-7 Despite her parents’ and little brother’s enthusiasm, rising seventh-grader Odette bitterly resents having to move her entire life into a camper and leave her home and friends behind. Even the compensatory dog her father gets her is an infuriating disappointment, a little mutt rather than the Labrador she’s longed for. A thousand miles of travel don’t really soften Odette’s stance, but when the family makes their first big stop, with Odette’s Grandma Sissy in Washington’s San Juan Islands, Odette is faced with a much bigger concern: her grandmother’s fatal illness and plan for a legal assisted death. Arnold, author of A Question of Miracles (BCCB 2/15), again accessibly tackles a challenging subject here. The first part of the book is spot-on in its characterization of Odette, who is legitimately upset about the upheaval in [End Page 401] her life but hasn’t yet figured out that hanging onto her anger is only hurting her. Her grandmother’s passing is handled sensitively yet matter-of-factly, and while the shift to the assisted-death plot may initially seem quite a subject change, it’s actually an effective complementary exploration of the overall theme of dealing with powerlessness. As Grandma Sissy says, “You may feel powerless over what is happening to you right now . . . and you are right. You are powerless, sometimes. Sometimes things happen, and we can’t stop them from happening.” Odette’s triumph is facing that truth while also recognizing things she does have some power to change (like making sure she sees the boy she likes before he leaves the island); the book’s triumph is exploring that truth while also acknowledging the adults could stand to give Odette a little more power. A tearjerker with a brain, this could prompt discussion not only of the right to die issue but also power and fairness. Copyright © 2016 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), 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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.529
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 studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.011
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.196 · 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