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		Saskatchewan Book Awards 2005 Children's literature Fixed Beth Goobie Victoria, B.C.: Orca Book Publishers, 2005. 279 p. ISBN 1551433745 Ages 12 and up
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Beth Goobie has created a world in which every one of her characters has many doppelgängers who live in a multitude of parallel worlds.

In Flux, the first part of the adventure, Nellie Kinnan lifts the veil on a number of the mysteries surrounding her past. In Fixed, Nellie is now an advanced cadet in the Black Core military training program. Violence is part of everyday life for this 12-year-old girl, who obeys her superiors blindly.

Then, her world is thrown into turmoil when she meets her twin sister, who will be familiar to readers as the heroine of the novel Flux. The two sisters begin to know one another and to overcome their differences of opinion. Together, they will discover all of the troubling truths about society, religion and their common past.

Goobie's descriptions of the voyages between parallel worlds might be disconcerting for some readers, but the sustained action and well-drawn characters make the novel easy to read. She does not tie things up neatly at the end of the story and leaves all kinds of openings that will no doubt be explored in future adventures.

–FO