Newbery Award-winning writer Paula Fox recollects the tragedy of her uringing in this woeful memoir. With an alcoholic father and a mother who aggressively rejected her, Fox was raised by a collection of diversely irresponsible partie...

Take up the pipe, Claudius,' a voice growled near Jessie's bound head. 'He's worth nothing without his pipe!'Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, thirteen-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he must play his fife so...

A Single ShotNed fired the forbidden rifle just once, at a flickering shadow in the autumn moonlight. But someone -- a face, fleetingly seen staring at him from an attic window -- was watching.And when a one-eyed cat turns up at an el...

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.

Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the beauty of bamboo, banana, and mango trees with flocks ...

"A towering landmark of postwar Realism. . . . A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." ― David Foster WallaceOtto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. The...

Eight-year-old Maurice's struggle to protect his bedroom full of treasured "junk" from unsympathetic parents undergoes a transformation when the family moves to the country.

"Not only can Fox see, she can hear, she can feel."—Zadie Smith, Harper'sThis gathering of Paula Fox's short work spans her illustrious career, from 1965 to the present including perfectly turned stories; pointed, engaging...

In a new edition of the first novel by the author of Desperate Characters, first published in 1967, teacher George Mecklin finds his life turned upside down when he becomes involved with tutoring Ernest, a teenage delinquent. Reprint.