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Red Fox (2008), Paperback, 368 pages
Description
When eleven-year-old Jenny Liddy, in turmoil over learning that she is a changeling, makes a deal with a devil creature, she endangers the human race but her own cleverness, her human and fairy fathers, and the last of Ireland's high kings help to make things right.
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LibraryThing member heathersblue
An enjoyable romp through faerie land. It is the sequal to the New Policeman and I enjoyed it much more than its predecessor. I'd be interested in a third...she seems to just be warming up.
LibraryThing member hewayzha
I enjoyed the way Celtic gods were made part of the life of a contemporary family in Ireland. Having brought up in a very traditional American Indian family, I could very much relate to the Liddy family dynamics. The characters were all very interesting and entertaining. There is no great actions
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LibraryThing member readinggeek451
Sequel to The New Policeman. J. J. Liddy is now grown up and has a family, including 11-year-old Jenny, who is wayward and strange. Jenny is friends with a puka, who has persuaded her to befriend the ghost on the local barrow. But the puka has reasons of his own, which may not be good ones.
LibraryThing member KarenBall
Jenny is not like other children -- she is forgetful, loses track of time, and wanders out into the fields and woods barefoot most days instead of going to school. She can also see and talk to the ghost of a boy who has been guarding a pile of rocks for over 3,000 years, and a Púka (an Irish
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spirit) disguised as a white goat. The boy tells her one story, while the Púka tells her another -- which one is being truthful, or is the truth somewhere in between? Jenny's father traveled to the fairy world of T'ir na n'Og when he was younger, and helped to repair the leak of time from the human world into the timeless fairy world. He is waiting for the deal he made at that time to be completed, and it turns out that Jenny is the key to that, as well as saving the human world from destruction. Will her choice save the world or doom it to darkness? A wonderful tale full of surprises, where each character's choices and viewpoints are important. This is the sequel to The New Policeman, but it's not necessary to read them in order -- this one stands on its own. 6th grade and up. Show Less
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Awards
Parents' Choice Book Award (2008)
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing (Nominee — 2008)
CCBC Choices (2009)
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Original publication date
2007
Physical description
368 p.; 7.72 inches
ISBN
1862303037 / 9781862303034
Local notes
JJ Liddy sometimes blames his unreliable temperament on the visit he made to the land of eternal youth, Tir na n'Og, when he was fifteen years old. It's perhaps not surprising that his children have also turned out to be a little eccentric, especially eleven-year-old Jenny. She forgets to go to school, can't bear to wear shoes and spends entire days roaming the mountainside.
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