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Pax by Sara Pennypacker
4.0

If it includes a beloved pet, it's bound to be sad, so be sure to have tissues nearby. It's so interesting how the author portrayed the foxes' behavior and the effects of war on both animals and humans. Peter's father joins the army and has to move in with his grandfather. Unfortunately, he has to give up his fox Pax, whom he raised from a young kit. Peter decides it was the wrong thing to leave Pax alone and defenseless in the forest and sets off on a journey to find him. Pax likewise wants to find his human but doesn't know where he went and decides to head back home. Along the way, he meets a group of other foxes and falls in with them as they try to find an area away from the encroaching human armies.