- Juvenile Fiction, Family problems, Fiction, Creative writing
It is the early 1970s. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves from Connecticut to California. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called "Fox," and lives with her author dad in a rundown house in the middle of the woods.
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Classical in form, earnest, warm and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Pat Murphy
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Speak, Viking
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780142412459
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