Paula Fox, Author Yearling Books $4.5 (208p) ISBN 978-0-440-40991-5
PW singled out the ``lyrical'' prose, ``laced with striking images and similes,'' in the Newbery Medalist's story of a 12-year-old's summer visit with her ailing grandmother. Ages 9-12. (Apr.)
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Paula Fox. Norton, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-08128-2
Though the original publication dates of the work compiled for this collection span from 1965 to 2010, many of the personal narratives included cover an even wider swath of Fox's life, making for a delightful read. An insightful and sturdy writer,...
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Paula Fox, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-45868-3
``Paula Fox has created another masterpiece,'' said PW of this haunting first-person narrative about a 13-year-old girl who moves to a small Massachusetts town and encounters a Svengali-like schoolmate. Ages 12-up. (Apr.) This cleverly concealed...
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Paula Fox, Author Orchard Books (NY) $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-08388-8
Emma, 10, is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle during her father's bypass surgery. With her constant, caustic jibes and her sudden, braying laugh, Aunt Bea lives up to her reputation as a ``terror''; in Emma's words, ``Aunt Bea's remarks about...
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Paula Fox, Author North Point Press $18.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-86547-432-1
Fox's prose flows as clearly and gracefully as clear water in a stream--but there is a dark current underneath: ``the implacable forces of time and loss.'' From a hardscrabble existence with her relentlessly cheerful mother in rural upstate New York,
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Paula Fox, Author Bradbury Press $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-735480-5
A new Paula Fox novel is always a cause for celebrationshe is one of America's most talented writers. Her past books for young adults (One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer, A Place Apart, et al.) have won her numerous awards, including the Newbery Medal,...
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Paula Fox, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-440-22748-9
In a starred review, PW said, ""Newbery Medal-winner Fox tells a perceptive, sensitive story about a preteen-ager who is idolized by his Down's syndrome brother."" Ages 10-up. (Nov.)
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Paula Fox, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-81402-0
Overprotective parents leave their son in the care of an appealingly eccentric baby-sitter who allows him some freedom. Ages 8-12. (May)
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Paula Fox, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-440-21972-9
Liam contends with a web of family secrets and lies when his father reveals he has AIDS. In a boxed review, PW said, ""Fox's prose is fraught with perception.... Readers cannot help but be deeply affected."" Ages 12-up. (Oct.)...
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Paula Fox, Author . Holt $23 (210p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6815-3
Newbery Award–winning novelist Fox (A Servant's Tale) lived a rather accidental, devastating childhood. Her Jazz Age parents dropped her at an orphanage shortly after her birth in 1923, from which she was rescued by a kindly clergyman and
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Paula Fox, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-531-06892-2
Liam's father is dying of AIDS. His mother tells him a recent blood transfusion is to blame, but Liam knows she's lying, because his sex-education class has taught him about the improved safety of transfusions and, more importantly, because of an...
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Paula Fox, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40235-0
When their New England family summers on an exotic Grecian island, Lily and her brother share many exciting discoveries. According to PW , Newbery Medalist Fox has written this compelling novel in an ``understated, graceful style.'' Ages 10-14. (Nov.
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Paula Fox, Author Orchard Books (NY) $12.95 (149p) ISBN 978-0-531-05720-9
Fox writes her new novel in the understated, graceful style that won her the Newbery Medal and many other honors. The story exudes the atmosphere of a Grecian isle, Thasos, where the Corey family will spend a momentous summer. Lily (""almost 12'')...
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Paula Fox, Author . Holt $18 (133p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7806-0
A year after WWII ended, Fox, then 22, left New York City for Europe, where she found work as a stringer for a small British news service. Those who haven't read her previous memoir, Borrowed Finery
, will be curious about the reasons for her...
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Paula Fox, Author . Front Street $7.95 (125p) ISBN 978-1-886910-60-7
A lonely boy's acquaintance with an artist helps him to define and improve his own self-image in what PW
called a "finely crafted story." Ages 9-12. (Aug.)
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Paula Fox, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Charles Fox, Author Scholastic $16.95 (67p) ISBN 978-0-531-05462-8
Newbery Medalist Fox notes in her preface that these folktales were relayed to her by Vecchi, a friend who grew up in a mountain town near Bologna. Gracefully transferring the spoken word to the printed page, Fox incorporates into her narrative...
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Paula Fox, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator Yearling Books $3.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-440-40960-1
Newbery Medalist Fox, retelling three Italian folktales, ""gracefully transfers the spoken word to the printed page,"" according to PW. Ages 8-12. (Dec.)
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Paula Fox, Author, Charles Fox, Author, Donald A. MacKay, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (106p) ISBN 978-0-689-71127-5
The talented author tells the story of a boy who hides behind a straight face. Ages 9-12. (April)
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Paula Fox, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2467-9
Newbery Medal winner Fox tells a perceptive, sensitive story about pre-teenager Paul Coleman, who is idolized by his Down's syndrome brother, Jacob. The novel opens just before Jacob's seventh birthday, as Paul leaves for school with his back to his
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Paula Fox, Author, Karla Kuskin, Illustrator , illus. by Karla Kuskin. Front Street $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-932425-43-7
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The day before Traces
arrived on my doorstep, I saw a red fox dash across a field into the woods near my house. I wondered if it had some means of moving through the snow without leaving prints, because I couldn
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Paula Fox, Author, Ingrid Fetz, Illustrator, Ingrid Fetz, Photographer Aladdin Paperbacks $4.5 (64p) ISBN 978-0-689-71216-6
A boy who collects everything is a source of exasperation to his parents, inspiring them to take drastic, but welcome, measures. Ages 7-11. (April)
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Paula Fox, Author, Saul Lambert, Illustrator, Sally Anne Lambert, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (131p) ISBN 978-0-689-71167-1
A lonely boy's acquaintance with an artist helps him to define and improve his own self-image in this finely crafted story. Ages 11-13. (October)
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Paula Fox, Author, P. Fox, Author Scholastic $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-531-05962-3
Fox ( The Village by the Sea ) has written a quietly terrifying, wholly compelling novel about the urban homeless, filtered through the experience of an 11-year-old boy. Clay's middle-class existence begins to shred when his art-director father...
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