Found: 1980s children's book about boy whose parents are on the run - character name is Pax/Pete
Original topic subject: 1980s children's book about boy whose parents are on the run - character name is Pax/Pete
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1AnyoneAtAll
I will be so grateful for the name of this book. I have not been able to find it despite knowing that its from the 1980s and is about a boy who goes by the name Pete Greenwood but his real name is Pax Connors. His parents bombed a lab or something, and someone died so they are on the run and he lives with his uncle. He falls in love with a girl name Carey or Cary, who is in foster care, and in the end, his mother turns herself into the FBI and he has to decide whether or not to visit her.
After much googling, I found a mention of it in the Horn Book Magazine, 1985, Volume 61, issues 4-6, page 471 in an article "Politics: the Last Taboo" by Jack Foreman, but the google preview only shows the mention of the character's names, not the name of the book, and the Internet Archive only has the index for the issue, not the whole issue. The name of the book wasn't in the index that I could see, only the name of the article it was in going by the page number.
Hopefully, this is enough for someone to do magic and track it down?
From the date of the Horn Book Magazine it was mentioned in, I'm assuming it was published in the early to mid 1980s but it might have been the late 1970s?
This was a book I loved in childhood and of course, my copy is lost to time and tide by now.
Thank you so much in advance!
After much googling, I found a mention of it in the Horn Book Magazine, 1985, Volume 61, issues 4-6, page 471 in an article "Politics: the Last Taboo" by Jack Foreman, but the google preview only shows the mention of the character's names, not the name of the book, and the Internet Archive only has the index for the issue, not the whole issue. The name of the book wasn't in the index that I could see, only the name of the article it was in going by the page number.
Hopefully, this is enough for someone to do magic and track it down?
From the date of the Horn Book Magazine it was mentioned in, I'm assuming it was published in the early to mid 1980s but it might have been the late 1970s?
This was a book I loved in childhood and of course, my copy is lost to time and tide by now.
Thank you so much in advance!
2konallis
Downtown by Norma Fox Mazer. (Found by searching for the name 'Pax Connors' in Google Books.)
3AnyoneAtAll
Oh wow! I tried searching that exact search and got nothing. I will go sit in the Google corner of shame!
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much!
