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Slave Dancer
Newbery Medal Winner: A young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship in this iconic novel. Thirteen-year-old Jessie …
Village by the Sea
Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award:A young girl learns some hard truths about human nature in this thought-provoking, beautifully crafted novel. Tomorrow, Emma’s uncle is …
Servant's Tale
"e;A rare and wondrous thing....[Fox] knows how to create a character."e;—Vogue Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son …
Widow's Children
"e;Chekhovian. . . . Every line of Fox's story, every gesture of her characters, is alive and surprising."e;—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times On the eve of their …
Place Apart
National Book Award Winner: A grieving teenager wonders if she’ll ever understand anything—especially the big things—in life. Time passed, and all the minutes hurt . . . After …
Western Coast
America and the catastrophic world of twentieth-century war, mass murder, and horror are the backdrop of this story of Annie Gianfala, a young woman who finds herself cast adrift …
MONKEY ISLAND
Eleven-year-old Clay must find a home on the streets of New York City in this award-winning, heartbreakingly honest novel. He was eleven years old, and he had never felt so alone …
Guden for mareritt
Om kjærleik, fordommar og svik. I 1941 forlèt den 23 år gamle Helen Bynum heimen på landsbygda i delstaten New York for første gong. Ho har fått i oppdrag å hente heim tante Lulu, …
God of Nightmares
"e;Vividly rendered…haunting…[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance."e; —NewsdayIn 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the …
Desperate personar
Om brestene i samfunnet - og ekteskapet. «Desperate personar», opphavleg gitt ut i 1970, er amerikansk romankunst på sitt beste. Det er historia om Otto og Sophie Bentwood, som …
Moonlight Man
Newbery Medalwinning author Paula Fox's gripping and sensitive portrayal of a teenage girl who discovers her father is not the man she thought he was. Catherine Ames's father, …
Western Wind
From Newbery Medal–winning author Paula Fox,an isolated young girl discovers surprising revelations about her grandmother—and herself. Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Elizabeth …