New Releases by Paula Fox

Fifteen-year-old Catherine and her father take their first joint vacation in Nova Scotia and finally get to know each other.

Autobiografische Kindheitserinnerungen der Autorin, die von hrer Schauspieler-Mutter abgelehnt wurde und innerlich vereinsamt und ohne familiäre Geborgenheit aufwuchs.

Luisa de la Cueva and her family leave their home on a small Caribbean island and try to start a new life in the barrios of New York.

"The best first novel I''ve read in quite a long time...A merciless uncovering of the exurban wastelands of the spirit." --New York Review of Books

Annie Ginfala is a young woman cast adrift in Hollywood with World War II looming. Defending herself against personal catastrophe, she tries to save her life and escape.

A Newbery Award-winning author tells the story of a boy who feels angry and rejected because his younger brother has Down''s syndrome and how, through a series of surprising events, he begins to wonder if his brother is indeed worth loving.

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 newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague the Bentwoods'' lives, revealing the fault lines and fractures in a marriage—and a society—wrenching itself apart. First published in 1970 to wide acclaim, Desperate Characters stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller''s craft in postwar American literature — a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Seize the Day."

An evening dining out with the family in New York City escalates into a feast of vicious innuendo and subtle cruelty for Laura Maldonado Clapper, her husband, her browbeaten daughter, her flamboyant brother, and an editor she has not seen in over a year.

Jessie, un muchacho de trece años, es secuestrado y conducido a un barco negrero donde le obligan a tocar el pífano pqra que bailen los esclavos. [Jessie, a thirteen-year-old boy, is kidnapped and pressed into service on a slave ship where he plays the fife in order to make the slaves dance.].

In the form of a fable, five stories within a story are full of wisdom & humour and feature animal protagonists. 8-11 yrs.

Summary: Liam''s father has AIDS, and his family cannot talk about it until Liam reveals a secret that he has tried to deny ever since he saw his father embracing another man at the beach.

A novel of distinction about a boy whose father is dying of AIDS.

The retelling of three Italian folktales: Amzat and His brothers, Mezgalten and Olimpia, Cucol and the Door.

Roman - famille - relation parent-enfant - arme - animal.

Newbery Medalist Paula Fox''s poignant, sensitively written story of a boy who finally faces his buried emotions. Black-and-white illustrations.

Shortly after her father''s death, Victoria and her mother move to a village outside of Boston where she meets a wealthy teenage boy who teaches her a valuable but painful lesson about life.

Ethan is not allowed to walk across the street, so when his ball rolls away he devises a clever way to retrieve it.

With the help of a falcon an ineffectual medieval king trades the troubled, boring life of royalty for the freedom of a falconer.

An eleven-year-old boy gains a new understanding of himself and his father after a trip to Florida with unusual people.

A little boy who can''t spell or ever seem to please his parents spends a week with a kooky babysitter and makes a special friend.