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Gr 3-7 Thoughtful 11-year-old Mo Wren loves the house on Fox Street that she shares with her father and younger sister, the "Wild Child." Everyone in this blue-collar neighborhood in Cleveland, OH, looks out for one another; there is a lush Green Kingdom of woods and trees at the end of the street; and her best friend, Mercedes, comes from Cincinnati to spend each summer with her grandmother, Da, who lives across the way. The street also holds all of Mo's memories of her deceased mother. When life t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"Fox Street was a dead end. In Mo Wren's opinion, this was only one of the many wonderful, distinguishing things about it." It also has a mean, spooky lady; a best friend who visits in the summer; and a ravine where, ten-year-old Mo is certain, there must live an actual fox. Mo spends a lot of time on the street tracking down her five-year-old sister while her widower father works repairing water mains. So it is that she intercepts the mysterious registered letter th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Ten-year-old Mo intercepts a letter that she fears means an end to her neighborhood. When Mo's father starts talking about lea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More