Wonderland

Author: Jane Hale, Lashelle Oarsbourn List Price: $9.95 Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price ISBN: 0934426791 Publisher: Rainbow Pubns (November, 1997) Edition: Paperback Sales Rank: 1,502,904 Average Customer Rating: 3.75 out of 5

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But all that begins to change when his mother brings Martin and his daughter, Wendy, into their lives. Thomas begins to withdraw into the solitary world of his computer, to the comfort of anonymous chat rooms, where he discovers that hiding behind a screen name (his is TScott) has its perils as well as its advantages.

This is the beginning of a very good story about learning to trust and love again. Unfortunately, that story gets bogged down in too-short chapters and a slightly stilted writing style.

The story probably could have done without the murky science fiction which improbably pops up in the second half of the book. The details, which the author intended to add local color (the book's KYTV Channel 3 anchorman's name is 'Bony Teason', the real anchor's name is Tony Beason), instead tend to create an inside joke situation that limits the book to a local audience.

I hope Jane Hale continues to write, she's a very good storyteller. I think perhaps with the right editor and publisher, she could reach a nationwide audience of young children-especially boys-with the cyber adventures of TScott.

Hale lives in Buffalo, and writes a weekly column, "Buffalo...As I Remember It", for the County Courier.