The Night the White Deer Died

Gary Paulsen. Laurel Leaf Library, $5.5 (112pp) ISBN 978-0-440-21092-4

Living with her mother in a New Mexico art colony, a teenaged girl feels iso lated and is haunted by a recurring dream. PW praised the ``eerily poetic'' writing in this allegorical novel, ``rooted in the chasm between actualities and pretensions.'' Ages 12-up. (Oct.)

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