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~ Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Children's Literature - 2021
After an incident shatters their family, eleven-year old Samantha and her older sister Caitlin are sent to live in rural Oregon with an aunt they've never met. When Aunt Vicky gives Sam a mysterious card game called 'A Game of Fox & Squirrels,' Sam falls in love with the animal characters, especially the charming trickster fox, Ashander . . .
Magically creative and deeply honest, A Game of Fox & Squirrels explores the often thin line between magic/reality, and light/darkness.
"Brings to life, viscerally, what it is like to live in fear of abuse, even after the abuse itself is over, but there is magic here too, and the promise of a better future that comes with learning to let people who care about you into your world." -- Alan Gratz, bestselling author of Refugee, Ground Zero, and Projekt 1065