![]() Other books include The 18th Emergency (1973), The TV Kid (1976), and After the Goat Man (1995).īetsy Byars died on February 26,2020 at the age of 91. ![]() Her book about a 14-year-old girl and her mentally retarded brother, The Summer of the Swans (1970), won the Newberry Award as the most distinguished contribution to children's literature that year. She is author of more than 60 books and has won numerous awards. She is an expert at tapping in to the pain of adolescence, using bits of her own experience to flavor her characters. The midnight fox by Betsy Cromer Byars 2. While she was in graduate school, she began writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post and Look.īyars writes novels for young people. She graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina. But everything changes when Tom sees the midnight fox. Tom hates having to spend the summer on a farm.until he discovers the midnight fox. Tony dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.īetsy Cromer Byars was born in1928. For a city boy, the farm holds countless terrors-stampeding baby lambs, boy-chasing chickens. ![]()
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