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Official Bio
Janet Fox is a former middle school and high school English teacher. She became a children’s author in the mid-90s, when her son’s learning differences led her to develop the ideas described in her book for Free Spirit Publishing, Get Organized Without Losing It (2006). Her other published work for children includes fiction (Spider Magazine) and science non-fiction (Highlights for Children). Her young adult novel, Faithful (Speak/Penguin Group), debuts in May 2010 followed by a sequel, Forgiven, in late spring 2011. She is currently a student in the MFA/Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is a former Regional Advisor for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (Brazos Valley, Texas.) Janet lives with her husband and their high-school age son in College Station, Texas.
Website: www.JanetSFox.com
Blog: kidswriterjfox.blogspot.com
Summary of Faithful
In 1904 Margaret Bennet has it all – money, position, and an elegant family home in Newport, Rhode Island. But just as she is to enter society, her mother ruins everything, first with public displays, and then by disappearing. Maggie’s confusion and loss are compounded when her father drags her to Yellowstone National Park, where he informs her that they will remain. At first Maggie’s only desire is to return to Newport. But the mystical beauty of the Yellowstone landscape, and the presence of young Tom Rowland, a boy unlike the others she has known, conspire to change Maggie from a spoiled girl willing to be constrained by society to a free-thinking and brave young woman living in a romantic landscape at the threshold of a new century.
Excerpt
"Inside me, rising from a hidden part of me, kept under wraps for too long, grew the spirit of my mother. Not the madness, but her strength, her fortitude…I held my hat in one hand; I reached up with the other and pulled out first one of my hairpins, then another, until my hair flew loose in the evening breeze...
I would discover the answer to who I was, who I wanted to be, on my own. The deep blue of Yellowstone dusk hung over me like an arch."
Book Info
Title: Faithful
Author’s Name: Janet Fox
Publisher: Speak/Penguin Group
ISBN (Trade Paper original): 978-0142414132
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