Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee
Out now from Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books; 272 pages
Trigger Warnings: dealing with loss
About the Authors: Kathi Appelt’s books have won numerous national and state awards, including the Irma and Simon Black Award, Children’s Choice Award, and a host of others. Her first novel, The Underneath, was a National Book Award Finalist and a Newbery Honor Book. It also received the Pen USA
Alison McGhee is the author of Someday, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and her Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel Shadow Baby was a Today Show Book Club pick. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has won many fellowships and awards. McGhee has taught creative writing at Metropolitan State University, Vermont College, Hamline University’s MFA program, and on her own. Pablo and Birdy, a children’s novel, and Never Coming Back, a novel for adults are her most recent books.
Sylvie loves running. Loved running. Loves running? Sylvie is missing. Jules, her little sister, is left behind. All Jules can think of to do is to find the Grotto, a cave-like place where if you put your wishing rock, it just might come true. Jules needs Sylvie, needs to find out why Sylvie always needed to be faster. Jules only wants to catch up and she’ll keep searching until she can. She’s the “Rock Girl,” the girl who knows every kind of rock and stone. She’ll find the Grotto, for Sylvie. Senna is a baby fox, born in the dead of winter. On her many adventures through the woods she often sees Jules, always calling for a Sylvie. What is a Sylvie and why does this girl call for one so sadly?
Appelt and McGhee weave a beautiful, fantastical story that intertwines the lives of so many, touching upon themes of how strong a family’s bond can be and of how nature finds a way to take care of us. The story follows Jules and Senna and how a young girl and a young fox have more in common than you may think. The biggest take-away from this story is that sometimes we aren’t running to get away, sometimes we are running to find our purpose in this big, crazy world and we need to get there fast. This book will give you that adventure you may be running towards.
PRR Writer, Julia Shelton
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