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  • HEART OF A TEACHER
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    HEART OF A TEACHER
    PAULA J. FOX
    Heart of a Teacher is a celebration of thanks to the teachers of the world. Filled with inspirational stories and poems, this beautiful book reflect the hearts of teachers and their commitment to making a difference in each life they touch. ...

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  • THE MOONLIGHT MAN
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    THE MOONLIGHT MAN
    PAULA FOX
    Newbery Medal–winning 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, Harry, has always been a mystery. Her parents divorced when she was three, and she has spent most of her life in a Montreal boarding school. When Harry suggests a month-long stay with him at his summer...

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  • ONE-EYED CAT
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    ONE-EYED CAT
    PAULA FOX
    A Newbery Honor Book and Winner of the Christopher Award: A young boy fires a forbidden rifle—and must face the consequences.   Ned Wallis's minister father made him promise not to touch the rifle until he turns fourteen. But the eleven-year-old can't resist sneaking outside and trying it out, just once. Ned takes aim, and fires—just as a dark shadow passes in front of him. Whe...

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  • THE SLAVE DANCER
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    THE SLAVE DANCER
    PAULA FOX
    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 Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. One night, on his way home, a canvas is thrown over his head and he's knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, Jessie finds himsel...

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  • MONKEY ISLAND
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    MONKEY ISLAND
    PAULA FOX
    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 in his life.   Clay Garrity lived a normal life until his father lost his job and abandoned the family. Now his pregnant mother has deserted him too, leaving Clay alone in a welfare hotel with a jar ...

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  • A PLACE APART
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    A PLACE APART
    PAULA FOX
    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 her father's death, Victoria Finch's life changes completely. To save money, she and her mother move from Boston to a small house in the town of New Oxford. There, Victoria attends school in a buildin...

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  • MAURICE'S ROOM
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    MAURICE'S ROOM
    PAULA FOX
    A hilarious tale from Newbery Medal winner Paula Fox: Maurice loves to collect things—but what happens when he collects too many things?   Eight-year-old Maurice is a collector. It doesn't matter how big or how small it is—if he likes something, he'll bring it home with him. His newest addition is a dried octopus hanging by a string from the ceiling. There's also a bottle of de...

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  • WESTERN WIND
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    WESTERN WIND
    PAULA FOX
    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 Benedict is furious when she finds out she'll be spending a month with her grandmother in Maine. She's sure she's being packed off to a remote island to live in a cottage without electricity or plumbing so...

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  • THE VILLAGE BY THE SEA
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    THE VILLAGE BY THE SEA
    PAULA FOX
    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 coming to take her to his house on Long Island while her father undergoes surgery and her mother stays with him in hospital. For two whole weeks, Emma will be stuck with her father's half-sister: th...

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  • LILY AND THE LOST BOY
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    LILY AND THE LOST BOY
    PAULA FOX
    Newbery Medal winner Paula Fox depicts a fateful summer on the mysterious Greek island of Thasos in this "haunting tale" ( The New York Times Book Review).   Lily Corey and her older brother, Paul, have been summering on the Greek island of Thasos with their parents. For Lily, it's been fun hanging out with her brother, exploring the island, and studying ancient mythology and a...

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  • A SERVANT'S TALE
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    A SERVANT'S TALE
    PAULA FOX
    "A rare and wondrous thing....[Fox] knows how to create a character."— Vogue Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the beauty of bamboo, banana, and mango trees with flocks of silver-feathered guinea hens underneath, the magic of a victrola, ...

    $441.68

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  • THE WIDOW'S CHILDREN
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    THE WIDOW'S CHILDREN
    PAULA FOX
    "Chekhovian. . . . Every line of Fox's story, every gesture of her characters, is alive and surprising."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas and awaiting the arrival of three friends: Clara Hansen, Laura's timid, brow-beaten da...

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  • THE GOD OF NIGHTMARES
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    THE GOD OF NIGHTMARES
    PAULA FOX
    "Vividly rendered…haunting…[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance." — Newsday In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of in...

    $324.70

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  • NEWS FROM THE WORLD
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    NEWS FROM THE WORLD
    PAULA FOX
    "Not only can Fox see, she can hear, she can feel."—Zadie Smith, Harper's This gathering of Paula Fox's short work spans her illustrious career, from 1965 to the present including perfectly turned stories; pointed, engaging essays; and raw yet eloquent memoir. ...

    $311.70

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  • THE WESTERN COAST
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    THE WESTERN COAST
    PAULA FOX
    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 in Hollywood with World War II looming. Defending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape. "Enormously touching and wholly believable....

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  • DESPERATE CHARACTERS
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    DESPERATE CHARACTERS
    PAULA FOX
    One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels One of the New York Times' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years "A towering landmark of postwar Realism…A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." —David Foster Wallace Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is...

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