Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lonergan, Jesse. All Star. New York: NBM Publishing, 2014. Print.It’s the bottom of the ninth, with two runners on and two outs, in the second to last regular season high school baseball game in a small rural town in Vermont called Elizabeth. Carl Carter, Elizabeth Monarch School’s all star player, steps up to the plate and hits a home run to win the game. The Elizabeth Monarchs are off to the playoffs and Carl is on top of the world. He is graduating this year and has everything going for him; a baseball scholarship to the University of Maine, a great group of friends, and the admiration of everyone in town. However, being the golden boy leads Carl to take advantage of people around him. Carl believes he can do what he wants, when we wants, without any consequences.Carl’s best friend Esden is not a baseball superstar or town hero. Esden comes from a very dysfunctional, low-income family and is perceived by many people as a bad boy. Nonetheless, Carl enjoys his company and impulsive personality. A party, drinking, and impaired driving cause Carl and Esden to make a serious mistake. Will they each get the consequence they deserve, and how will the repercussions affect their futures and friendship?This graphic story, set in 1998, is a powerful story about fairness and self-perception in young adults. The manga-inspired art and text placement captivate the reader from start to finish. The reader’s eyes are drawn naturally from panel to panel by the simplistic black and white illustrations. Lonergan’s talent of capturing delicate and extreme body language is apparent in every character sketch. This book appeals to baseball fans and adolescents that yearn for a compelling, character driven story. All Star was the winner of 2015 ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens and was nominated for the 2015 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults Readers. The story includes mature language and content which may not appeal to all readers.Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Jackie HeinrichJackie Heinrich is the teacher-librarian at Wiltse Elementary School in Penticton, BC. She is currently working towards her Masters of Education Degree in Teacher Librarianship and enjoys helping students become lifelong readers.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.265 | 0.285 |
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".