Mo has lived her entire ten years on a short dead end street with her father and little sister. (Mom is dead.) Her best friend comes every summer to stay with her grandmother across the street from Mo. Mo loves it here and is hoping to one day actually see the fox that the street is named for. He...
Mo Wren was born on the kitchen table in her home on Fox Street. Ten years later Fox Street is still her world. She can't imagine living anywhere else.With five houses on either side, Fox Street is bordered on one end by Paradise Avenue and on the other by a wooded ravine called the Green Kingdom...
I suspect the boy enjoyed it, because of the fun Phoebe and Digger had at the playground, and the girl was able to relate to the negative feelings that having a new sibling can bring, and I could identify with the overwhelmed mum, who at the end manages to create love and understanding between Ph...
Wonderful sequel to WHAT HAPPENED ON FOX STREET (although the book stands alone just fine). Mo and Dottie are delightful characters and Springstubb's writing is strong, descriptive and enjoyable. In particular, I loved her use of different analogies:"Mo's heart crouched inside her, like someone a...
The sun still hadn’t reached the top of the cemetery wall, and the moss at the base looked like black velvet. A yellow-flecked bird rode the breeze like an invisible roller coaster.People in some religions, Nella knew, believed in reincarnation, where a spirit slipped free from a dying creature t...
Flor guesses Dad’s tired of people asking him questions about Mama, and she hopes God will understand. If God is even still paying any attention to them. Instead Flor rides into town with Dad, who has paperwork to do. His office is in the town hall, and except for them, it’s empty. Flor meanders ...