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3.33 AVERAGE
Tod's father has abandoned the family and moved back to England. Tod's mom has lost her job and moved herself and her three kids back in with her mother while she pursues her dreams of being a stand-up comedian.
Tod is having a hard time in school, a hard time with a gang called the breakers, and just a hard time, in general, adjusting to his new life in the country. His one respite is going to a nearby quarry and searching for the foxes that live there.
As Tod's life becomes more difficult, his trips to the quarry become more mystical and his time with the fox becomes an oasis in his crazy, upside down life.
Will Tod choose a life of the wild or his family?
This one is better for the young YA because of some of the incidents and situations. It's also for those that liked The Lady and the Tiger or The Never-Ending Story.
Tod is having a hard time in school, a hard time with a gang called the breakers, and just a hard time, in general, adjusting to his new life in the country. His one respite is going to a nearby quarry and searching for the foxes that live there.
As Tod's life becomes more difficult, his trips to the quarry become more mystical and his time with the fox becomes an oasis in his crazy, upside down life.
Will Tod choose a life of the wild or his family?
This one is better for the young YA because of some of the incidents and situations. It's also for those that liked The Lady and the Tiger or The Never-Ending Story.
Honestly only read it because my partner said he raid it and enjoyed it while he was in high school.
Rubinstein's characters are always so relatably flawed, so set in the real world of poverty and difficult family relationships- she navigates class and gender sensitively, without white-washing the reality or stereotyping she manages to have people we can recognize from contemporary Australian society. This book I liked even more because the setting was so obviously South Australia and I related to much of the negative culture in it.
It's a sad book- I wouldn't necessarily think every child had the stomach for it but I am really glad I read it. The foxes in the book are problematized rather than demonized and it seems the feral animal is a metaphor for other dilemmas without easy answers. To be in touch with the earth in the modern sense can be to have a bond with feral plants or animals after all.
The family in the book is warm yet flawed.
So much to love
It's a sad book- I wouldn't necessarily think every child had the stomach for it but I am really glad I read it. The foxes in the book are problematized rather than demonized and it seems the feral animal is a metaphor for other dilemmas without easy answers. To be in touch with the earth in the modern sense can be to have a bond with feral plants or animals after all.
The family in the book is warm yet flawed.
So much to love