Other editions of book The Midnight Fox

Tom hates having to spend the summer on a farm . . . until he discovers the midnight fox. No one asked Tom how he felt about spending two months on his Aunt Millie’s farm. For a city boy, the farm holds countless terrors—stampeding baby lambs, boy-chasing chickens, and worst of all, loneliness. But everything changes when Tom sees the midnight fox. He can spend hours watching the graceful black fox in the woods. And when her life—and that of her cub—is in danger, Tom knows exactly what he must do. “An exceptional book.”—Booklist A Library of Congress Children’s Book of the Year

Tom was outraged when his father and mother proposed to send him to his aunt's farm for the summer. He knew he was going to hate it. He couldn't stand animal, and they couldn't stand him. Even chickens chased him, so he said. But his parents--" athletic types"-- hadset their hearts on a bicycling trip in Europe, and Tom agreed, though grudgingly, to go to the farm. At first he did hate it. He couldn't stand Aunt Millie's taking it for granted that he was a hearty outdoor boy like her now grown-up sons, and would sooner or later climb down the tree outside his bedroom window as her sons had done. Even jolly cousin Hazeline irritated him with her flirtatious ways.. Only Uncle Fred seemed a reasonable kind of person, and he was rather aloof. Then one day, wandering in the woods, Tom saw a black fox "leaping over the green, green grass, as light and free as the wind. It was pure magic, seeing the fox again, tracing her to her den, and watching her play with her beautiful kit. But one night the fox stole Aunt Millie's turkey and Uncle Fred promised he would find and destroy her. Devotion and pity moved Tom to the first heroic act of his life, and he did climb down the tree in a raging thunderstorm! Crotchety humor and poetic beauty light up this boy's story, and his wry understanding of his own nature is both touching and convincing, a thoroughly likable boy..