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*-The asterisk highlights exceptional books. S-Recommended for senior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. J-Recommended for junior high school students. This is a powerful novel, with many themes to consider the plot is exciting and suspenseful. All animal lovers will be swept up in this aspect of the story, and the details of the life cycles of these 'kits' are enchanting. Sloe's mother is the guardian of the DNA and trains Sloe to do what has to be done to keep the DNA alive-she becomes a guardian of the tiny creatures. As the fauna of the world had mutated and disappeared, Sloe's parents found a way to preserve the DNA of five different groups of animals.

What makes the story unique, however, and links it to the SF genre, is the legacy from her mother, a biological scientist. Much of the plot is about her survival in an oppressive, bitterly cold environment. The experiences as a liar and thief that helped her survive at school now become essential as she undertakes the long, arduous journey across the ice, through the forest, to a city where she may be free. She is amazingly intelligent and resourceful. The little girl Rosita renames herself Sloe, for the bitter fruit. The little girl is the narrator, and she gets older, she is separated from her mother and sent to a ghastly school later, disgraced and alone, she is determined to escape with a precious scientific legacy from her mother, Siberia is set in a future world of ecological and cultural disaster-a little girl and her mother are sent into exile to a frozen world that seems like what we know about prison camps in Siberia during the Communist era. Franklin's Island and Taylor Five, both of which combine science with survival themes. As Ann Halam, she has written two successful YA novels, Dr.

Halam is a British author who writes adult SF under the name of Gwyneth Jones.

Taylor five by ann halam