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Maybe a fox

Appelt, KathiMcGhee, AlisonFarkas, Robert(Cover design or artwork by)
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Worlds collide spectacularly when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub ... and what happens when one sister disappears. Sylvie and Jules, Jules and Sylvie. Better than just sisters, better than best friends. Jules' favourite thing is collecting rocks, and Sylvie's is running - fast.

But Sylvie is too fast, and when she runs to the most dangerous part of the river one snowy morning to throw in a wish rock, she is so fast that no one sees what happens when she disappears.

At that very moment, in another part of the woods, a shadow fox is born: half of the spirit world, half of the animal world.

She, too, is fast, and she senses danger. When Jules goes to throw one last wish rock into the river for her lost sister, the human and shadow worlds collide with unexpected consequences.

Written in alternate voices - one Jules, the other the fox - this searingly beautiful tale tells of one small family's moment of heartbreak as it unfolds into something epic, mythic, shimmering and, most of all, hopeful.

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Product Details
Walker Books Ltd
1406372897 / 9781406372892
Paperback / softback
813.6
03/11/2016
United Kingdom
English
266 pages
20 cm
Children's (6-12) Learn More