A Place Apart (Fox novel)

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A Place Apart
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Author Paula Fox
LanguageEnglish
Genre Children's literature
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
 September 26, 1980
Publication placeUnited States

A Place Apart is a 1980 children's novel by Paula Fox. After her father's sudden death, 13-year-old Victoria and her mother are forced to move from Boston to a town in the New England countryside. There Victoria meets Hugh, an arrogant high school junior who soon takes to manipulating and bullying her. Hugh's interest wanes with the arrival of a new boy at school, Todd, whom Victoria takes a linking to. As Victoria begins to process her feelings regarding her father's death, her mother announces she is remarrying and they will be moving back to Boston.

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Reception

The book was a finalist for the National Book Award for Children's Books in the hardback category in 1981 [1] and later co-won the Award in the paperback category in 1983. [2] The Christian Science Monitor called the book "an outstanding example of serious realistic fiction for a juvenile audience" [3] In Anne Tyler's review for the New York Times, she complimented Fox's writing and said the book was "a book apart–quiet-voiced, believable and often very moving". [4]

References

  1. ↑ "A Place Apart". NationalBook.org. Retrieved December 24, 2025.
  2. ↑ "National Book Awards 1983". NationalBook.org. Retrieved December 24, 2025.
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Muther (October 14, 1980). "Some thoughts on 'realism' in fiction for teen-agers; It All Began With Jane Eyre, by Sheila Greenwald. Boston: Atlantic -- Little, Brown & Co. $7.95; A Place Apart, by Paula Fox. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $9.95". CSMonitor.com. Retrieved December 24, 2025.
  4. ↑ Tyler, Anne (November 9, 1980). "Staking Out Her Territory". NYTimes.com. Retrieved December 24, 2025.
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