What Happened on Fox Street

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What Happened on Fox Street

Summer means Mo's best friend is coming back to Fox Street! Merce's grandmother Da lives right across the street from Mo, her dad, and her wild-child little sister Dottie. Da tells the history of Fox Street with love and care, each house, each store, each family.

Mo loves Fox Street, with her house snug between good neighbors, where Dottie flits around collecting pretty bottles, the Baggott boys ride their skateboards, and Mrs. Steinbott cares for her roses (and never talks to anyone). It all seems balanced, and Mo likes that. If she could just get a glimpse of the fox that must live in the Ravine at the end of Fox Street, then she'd know that life would run smoothly...

But since last summer, Merce has grown up more than Mo and wears cutesy clothes like the popular middle school girls instead of shorts and sneakers for exploring in the Ravine. Maybe Merce's mom marrying someone with money is making a difference, even trying to get Da to move to Cincinnati with them after being hospitalized with diabetes.

When an empty house is suddenly torn down and letters from the real estate man start arriving, folks on Fox Street start to worry about losing their neighborhood, Mrs. Steinbott suddenly starts talking to Mo, and Mo starts to worrying about everything changing at once.

A big thunderstorm does more than overfill the creek in the Ravine, and Mo must stop worrying about later and find Dottie now!

- Recommended by: Katy Manck, Librarian-at-Large (retired academic/corporate/school librarian), Gilmer, Texas, USA

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Summer has come to Fox Street in Cleveland, Ohio, where Mo Wren lives with her handsome father and her wild child sister, Dottie. Any minute now Mo's best friend, Mercedes, will arrive from Cincinnati and they'll commence their traditions of Tahitiian Treat and secrets and taking care of Da, Mercedes' grandmother.

That's what Mo is counting on but life is about to hand her some more unexpected changes and obstacles. Mo's father is struggling to keep life on track since the death of his wife, Mo and Dottie's mother. He's handed over a lot of responsibility to Mo who has to keep an eye on Dottie and think clearly for the whole family. Mercedes has a new stepfather who has enough money for them to be "comfortable." That change in her life makes her see Fox Street in a whole new light and it isn't positive. The changes in her come as a shock and another disappointment to Mo.

Can Mo believe in good things? Is there really a fox on Fox Street? Her hope is all she holds on to as she searches through the brambles in the Green Kingdom hoping for a glimpse of a red coat. Then, Mo's dad gets a letter in the mail from a businessman offering to buy the family home and just maybe make Dad's dream of owning his own sportsbar come true. Leave Fox Street? Mo can't even imagine it. Leave Pi the adventurous skateboarding Piggott boy with a warm place in his heart?

The richness of the connections between the characters in this book strikes deep in our most tender places and the balance between the love and the loss keep us turning page after page with the hope that all will have the happy ending they deserve. A beauty of a book. 218 pages

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