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Heidicker, Christian McKay. SCARY STORIES FOR YOUNG FOXES New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2019. IL YA ISBN: 978-1250181428 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 What do foxes fear? Seven fox kits sneak out at night to the cave of the old storyteller, an elderly fox who tells them a tale scary enough to put white in their tails. The story - or rather series of interconnected stories - describes the experiences of Mia, who discovers that her beloved teacher, Miss Vix, has gone rabid, and Uly, abused by his den mates because he was born with a crippled leg. Without mothers, the kits journey through the woods, finding each other along the way. But nature is cruel and so are humans. And not all foxes make it to the end of the story. Can Mia and Uly survive the terrors that they find in the dark parts of the forest? (Vermont Middle Grade Book Award, 2021) Booktalk #2 Scary Stories for Young Foxes is a most misleading title! More than little foxes will be spooked by these tales. It's the haunted season in Antler Wood. Gather around the fire for ghost stories with seven fox kits. Listen to the harrowing adventures of Mia and Uly, two young foxes separated from their litters. With them, you’ll flee teachers turned to gooey-eyed zombies, encounter a tricky, skin-stealing witch, be hunted by ghosts in the snow, sniff out the ever-present, evil Mr. Scratch, and long for a safe place to call home. If you love thrilling, gruesome, spine-tingling campfire stories to tell in the dark, you just might be the one to make it through all eight interconnected scary stories for young foxes. We’ll see... (Heather Nelson, McKnight Middle School Evergreen Teen Book Award, 2022) |
| SUBJECTS: Foxes -- Fiction. Animals -- Infancy -- Fiction. Survival -- Fiction. Storytelling -- Fiction. |
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