A Place Apart (1980)

by Paula Fox

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Shortly after her father's death, Victoria and her mother move to a small village outside of Boston where she meets a wealthy teenage boy who teaches her a valuable but painful lesson about life.

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Victoria is young and vulnerable, wanting to know how to be in a world that doesn't quite make sense to her. When her father dies, she and her mother move to the tiny village of New Oxford, where she feels even more isolated from herself and the world around her.

jhawn | Jul 31, 2017 |

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National Book Award (Winner – Children's Fiction (Paperback) – 1983)

National Book Award (Finalist – Children's Books, Fiction (Hardcover) – 1981)

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CCBC Choices (Fiction for Older Readers – 1980)

Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Children's Books (1980)

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Shortly after her father's death, Victoria and her mother move to a small village outside of Boston where she meets a wealthy teenage boy who teaches her a valuable but painful lesson about life.

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