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Pax

Sara Pennypacker

3.93 AVERAGE

carmen_sw's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

laurenlaskowski's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

Content Warnings

lil_esme's review against another edition

5.0

Oh my god the tears! Beautiful, moving book that had me engrossed from start to finish. Very cute.

12bookslisa_read's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense medium-paced

This was good

gakingmusic's review against another edition

5.0

As I read this, I could not help but think of what the people of Ukraine are going through. Pax is the story of a boy, Peter, who and his fox, Pax. Peter rescues the orphaned Pax shortly after the death of his own mother, and the develop a close bond. But the unnamed country they live in is going to war, his father gets called up to fight, and he has to move to his grandfather's and abandon Pax. Peter and Pax each go on their own journeys as they try to find their ways back to each other in their "war-sick" country.

The writing is about as good as it gets for the middle-grade level books. There are themes throughout that are great for young readers to consider. Peter has experienced trauma and grief, as has another character introduced later in the book. Reading this could be both challenging and helpful to kids with similar experiences.

I expected the plot to be predictable, but there are some twists that I did not expect but were somehow perfect anyway. This is a neat story that I think will become as notable as other middle grade classics like Hatchet and Holes.

grillofjustice's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful

kim_moss's review against another edition

3.0

Another example of a book that librarians and teachers will like far more than its intended audience. Very sweet story but I can't for the life of me think of one reader for whom it would be a match.