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Books with author Paul Fox

  • Monkey Island

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (BANTAM DOUBLEDAY @ DELL, Aug. 16, 1993)
    Story of homeless, eleven-year-old Clay Garrity trying to find his parents in New York City.
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  • The Eagle Kite: A Novel

    Paula Fox

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, April 1, 1995)
    His mother's news that his father is seriously ill from a blood transfusion causes Liam to recall seeing his father embrace another man on the beach three years earlier and to find a way to come to terms with shock and sorrow. By the author of Western Wind.
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  • Western Wind

    Paula Fox

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, Oct. 1, 1993)
    Upset about being sent to stay with her grandmother on a remote island off the Maine coast, Elizabeth gradually comes to terms with the harsh living conditions, her not-so-congenial Gran, and her neighbors on the island.
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  • Monkey Island

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (Orchard Books, May 18, 1995)
    A story about the tough and frightening world of New York's homeless seen through the eyes of Clay, an 11-year-old boy abandoned by his mother. the author won the American Book Award for "A Place Apart" and the Newberry Medal for "The Slave Dancer".
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  • How Many Miles to Babylon?

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Sept. 1, 1982)
    Ten-year-old James Douglas plans a daring escape from a deserted Coney Island funhouse where three teenage hoodlums, who force him into a dog-stealing racket, imprison him
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  • One-Eyed Cat

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (Yearling, Oct. 1, 1985)
    Ned Wallis knows he's forbidden to touch the rifle in the attic. But he can't resist sneaking it out of the house, just once. Before he realizes it, Ned takes a shot at a dark shadow.When Ned retums home, he's sure he sees a face looking down at him from the attic window. Who has seen and heard him?Ned's feelings of guilt and fear only get worse when one day, while helping an elderly neighbor, he spots a wild cat with one eye missing. Could this be the thing Ned shot at that night? How can Ned bring himself to reveal his painful secret?
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  • The Literacy Bridge - Large Print - The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Aug. 23, 2004)
    A Newbery Award Winner Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, thirteen-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he must play his fife while captured slaves dance to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. Jessie is sickened by the horrible practices of the slave business. But they are nothing compared to the one final horror that Jessie will witness. Can the cruelty be stopped? And will it be too late when it does? Available only in The Literacy Bridge 5.
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  • Monkey Island

    Paula Fox

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, March 1, 1993)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive.
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  • Blowfish Live in the Sea

    Paula Fox

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster, Oct. 1, 1970)
    Carrie's half brother Ben has long felt rejected by his father until, on a strange visit in Boston, he is able to see that his father really needs him.
  • A Place Apart

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (Signet, April 1, 1982)
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  • A Likely Place

    Paula FOX

    Paperback (Troll, Aug. 16, 1967)
    A Likely Place BY PAULA FOX
  • Western Wind

    Paula Fox

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, Sept. 1, 1993)
    Twelve-year-old Elizabeth resents being sent to stay on a small Maine island after the arrival of her new baby brother, but the time she spends with her artist grandmother and an unusual young neighbor help her to see things differently
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