She began her writing career five years after her graduation by publishing short magazine articles. Betsy attended public schools in North Carolina and graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, NC with a major in English. She especially values her many state awards which were voted on by the readers of the state. Among them are the Newbery Medal in 1971 for her novel T he Summer of the Swans, the American Book Award in 1981 for The Night Swimmers, The Edgar (for the best mystery for young people) in 1992 for Wanted.Mud Blossom and the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association for the body of her work.
Her books have been translated into nineteen languages and she gets thousands of letters from readers in the United States and from all over the world. Her first book was published in 1962 and since then she has published regularly. But through quiet afternoons spent exploring the forest and fields, Tom becomes more aware of, and finally more comfortable, with the power and beauty of the natural world, and in the end acts to save a part of that world.- Children's Literatureīetsy Byars has written over sixty books for young people. Tom doesn't like animals, and they don't like him. This book holds one of my favorite characters, city bred Tom, who is doomed to spend the summer on his uncle's farm when his parents decide to take a long bicycle trip. "An exceptional book."- BooklistĪ Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year And when her life-and that of her cub-is in danger, Tom knows exactly what he must do. He can spend hours watching the graceful black fox in the woods. But everything changes when Tom sees the midnight fox. For a city boy, the farm holds countless terrors-stampeding baby lambs, boy-chasing chickens, and worst of all, loneliness. No one asked Tom how he felt about spending two months on his Aunt Millie's farm. About the Book Tom dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.īook Synopsis Tom hates having to spend the summer on a farm.
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