Nikki Tate's run as storyteller for pre-teens continues with The Battle of Carnillo (Sono Nis $8.95), subtitled Book II of the Estorian Chronicles. It's a boy meets mythology tale, with requisite castles and heroism-a few centuries removed from Tate's series about girls and their horses. Back on that track with Tate's tenth juvenile novel, Jo's Triumph (Orca $6.95) is a about a girl named Jocelyn who escapes from the Carson City Home for Unfortunate Girls by finding a job with the Pony Express and disguising herself as boy. The same readership is courted by Penny Chamberlain in The Olden Days Locket (Sono Nis $8.95) about a girl enthralled by Victoria's historic Point Ellice House. Carnillo 1-55039-119-4; Triumph 1-55143-199-8; Chamberlain 1-55039-128-3-By Louise Donnelly

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