Wallace, Rich. Restless.Penguin Putnam, Viking. 176p. c2003. 0-670-03605-6. $15.99. JS High school student Herbie is something of a maverick and a wise guy, but he's also bright, athletic, and determined. Just to show up a detested de·test tr.v. de·test·ed, de·test·ing, de·tests To dislike intensely; abhor. [French détester, from Latin d coach, he decides to go out for two sports in a season, football and cross-country, though the training involved is draining and he's juggling a part-time job as well. Herbie is also interested in physics, and curious about life after death. When he runs through a cemetery at night and sees a ghost following him, he isn't frightened fright·en v. fright·ened, fright·en·ing, fright·ens v.tr. 1. To fill with fear; alarm. 2. away but instead goes back again and again, even bringing his new girlfriend along, trying to understand what this ghost might want. He goes online to a physics chat room too, to exchange ideas with others about matter and the afterlife. Meanwhile, Herbie's dead brother, a restless ghost himself and the narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. of this tale, is trying to contact him. This tong-dead ghost of an ancestor of theirs in the cemetery seems to be a key to connecting the brothers and to helping both ghosts move on. Wallace, the author of Wrestling Sturbridge, Playing Without the Ball, and other notable books about sports for YAs, gets in lots of information about football and running here, but he also raises interesting questions about an afterlife. Ghosts as seen here as "spirits who are stuck ... searching for that one action or event that will release them from the limbo limbo In Roman Catholicism, a region between heaven and hell, the dwelling place of souls not condemned to punishment but deprived of the joy of existence with God in heaven. The concept probably developed in the Middle Ages. ," and thoughtful readers will enjoy Herbie's musings on them and interactions with them as well as the sports action, A minor quibble QUIBBLE. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety; a cavil. 2. No justly eminent member of the bar will resort to a quibble in his argument. : for readers' convenience, perhaps, the instant messages exchanged in the online chat room are grammatically correct, with capital letters and punctuation--unlike any I've seen! For those who need to know, there is some profanity Irreverence towards sacred things; particularly, an irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God. Vulgar, irreverent, or coarse language. The use of certain profane or obscene language on the radio or television is a federal offense, but in other situations, profanity . Paula Rohrlick, KLIATT |
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